Pandemic stops the presses

Yangon’s news media has risen on the list of COVID-19’s economic victims. A recent blanket stay-at-home order for Yangon Region has forced printing presses to close their doors and most private newspapers and magazines to suspend their pr

Myanmar ranks lowest in years for press freedom

Myanmar slipped one spot lower, to 138th, in the Reporters Without Borders (RWB) 2019 World Press Freedom Index. It is Myanmar’s lowest ranking since 2013 in the self-styled “press freedom barometer,” which is based on surveys of me