Contents No. Content Page Organizational Background 1 Research Methodology 1 Unit 1 Background Context of Press Freedom in Myanmar 2 Unit 2 Repressions on the Freedom and Rights of News Media and Journalists 5 Unit 3 Law Amendments and Repressing Journalists 16 Unit 4 Threats over Journalism Works & Journalists’ Livelihood 24 Unit 5 Impacts of Cutting Internet and Tele-communications on the News Media 27 Unit 6 Media council Disregarding on the Journalistic Rights and the Purposes of News Media Law 28 Unit 7 Recommendations for Sustaining Local Media 31 Repeated Dark Age of News Media