"The popular Burmese lifestyle magazine Han Thit is missing from the newsstands this month. Nor will it appear in April. The magazine was suspended by the authorities for two months. The reason? It carried a restaurant?s advertisement of a St. Valentine?s Day celebration. No Valentine cards or red roses then for the regime bureaucrats responsible for such daft decisions. Journalists, editors and publishers are braced for even more inexplicable actions against the media as a new censorship policy takes shape following last October?s purge. Burma?s police chief Brig-Gen Khin Yi being mobbed by reporters Media issues surfaced at the National Convention in March, although the discussions yielded no hope for possible relaxation of restrictions on press freedom. According to a report by the official mouthpiece The New Light of Myanmar, it was agreed at the National Convention session that ?NGO- and privately-owned media? would emerge ?sooner or later.? So far so good, but then came the crunch: ?Permission will be granted to the media that keep their dignity. Therefore, action will have to be taken against those who breach the rules. And consequently, it is necessary to enact laws in connection with the media.?..."