Private newspapers return to Burma after almost 50 years
Private daily newspapers are being sold in Burma for the first time in almost 50 years, as a state monopoly ends.
Sixteen papers have so far been granted licences, although only four were ready to publish on Monday.
This is another important milestone on Burma's journey away from authoritarian rule, the BBC's Jonathan Head reports from the commercial capital, Rangoon.
01 Apr 2013
- From the section Asia