"Now, artists have started moving on," said Min Lwin, who opened Gallery 65 in Rangoon in 2010. "They are looking more into culturally subversive matters."

Burmese official defends a recent government decision to reintroduce the old censorship system for direct-to-video films.

The jailing of Zaw Pe, a journalist for the DVB, and the imprisonment of several journalists from Unity journal is a typical example of government doubletalk on press freedom and political reforms. This is the real nature of the still military controlled “civilian” government. It fears transparency.

A draft of Burma’s highly-anticipated broadcasting law, which will pave the way for private enterprises including DVB to broadcast legally in the country for the first time, contains several troubling provisions that could restrict press freedom, media analysts have warned.

Free speech advocates have slammed Burma’s controversial publishing bill, which was passed by the lower house of parliament last week, amid concerns that it will reintroduce censorship

The Burmese government has admitted that a new “supervisory committee” has been formed, which will carry out many of the same functions of the former censorship board