Myanmar is poised to adopt a new media law that could sweep away half a century of heavy-handed censorship, as an increasingly impatient press cautiously test the boundaries of newly-won freedoms.
A woman sell a local journal with an image of democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi on the front page in Yangon in December 2011. Myanmar is poised to adopt a new media law that could sweep away decades of censorship, as the press cautiously test the boundaries of newly-won freedoms.
In perhaps the most eye-catching reform among a raft of changes in the country formerly known as Burma, reports on democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi are no longer taboo as the new government moves towards allowing a free press.
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