Burma - Will media freedom continue to progress in Burma?

Reporters without borders

Reporters Without Borders and its partner organization, the Burma Media Association (BMA), condemn the criminal libel suit that a construction ministry engineer has brought against the Modern Weekly newspaper and one of its reporters, Thet Su Aung, over a report last November criticising the state of roads in the central region of Mandalay. The two organizations are also concerned about other recent restrictions on media freedom reported by the exile media, which continue to demonstrate (...)

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