"...News is a big part of the average Myanmar citizen?s daily life. Over 300 newspapers and journals feed the country?s seemingly insatiable appetite for news. Yet despite recent progress in press freedoms, the country?s media landscape remains delicate, with previous reforms now dangling by a thread. In July, the jailing on national security charges of five Unity Journal journalists, including the paper?s chief executive, sparked an international uproar. They each received a hefty 10-year sentence for violating the 1923 State Secrets Act for publishing a report exposing an alleged secret chemical weapons factory. Fifty local journalists who protested their incarceration have since faced freedom of assembly-related charges. This followed the very public deportation of an Australian journalist working for the once exiled anti-government Democratic Voice of Burma. A group of journalists at the Bi Mon Te Nay news journal are being held in pre-trial detention and face criminal charges that carry potential prison terms for publishing an activist group statement that said opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi had formed an interim government. They were initially charged with violating the more severe 1950 Emergency Act..."