Latest Myanmar Times setback highlights increased junta interference... "One year ago the Myanmar Times might have been forgiven for feeling optimistic. The paper was about to relocate to bigger premises in downtown Rangoon to accommodate a swelling team of reporters, while a printing press was making its way from New Zealand that would allow Editor-in-Chief Ross Dunkley and his team to publish in-house for the first time. That was, however, before Monday, October 18, 2004—the day former prime minister and head of Military Intelligence Gen Khin Nyunt was arrested for corruption. Dunkley?s comment to Asiaweek shortly after he launched his English-language weekly in 2001 that ?in some ways we are a litmus test to an opening up process? has this year proven to be prophetic. The sentencing of Deputy CEO Sonny Swe and his father Brig-Gen Thein Swe—formerly of MI and the Myanmar Times? chief censor until Khin Nyunt?s ouster—to 14 and 152 years in prison respectively for corruption and bypassing the official censorship process—was merely the first setback. Whereas the newspaper could occasionally print articles and even pictures of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2002 when the political situation was less tense, in the past 12 months the Myanmar Times has been ?asked? to run stories provided by the Ministry of Information almost every week..."