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Saturday, January 12, 2013 - 00:07
Burmese sex education magazine deemed ‘near pornography’
Burma’s first “sex education” magazine has proven a bit too steamy for Burma’s notoriously draconian censors who have banned its publication after only one issue.
Hnyo, meaning “enchantment”, was ordered to stop publishing because it was deemed to have ventured beyond its remit as a “fashion” magazine, its editor Ko Oo Swe told Agence France-Presse (AFP).
The closure of Hnyo is the most profound act of censorship since the abolition of pre-publication censorship by the Burmese government in August.
Information Minister Aung Kyi is quoted by Burma’s state-run The New Light of Myanmar as saying that the editors of Hnyo had gone too far by publishing “near pornography”.
