Burma abolishes media censorship

Who needs state censorship when you can just create a punditocracy willing to narrow the terms of political debate to the point where anything that falls outside state-approved hegemony is instantly dismissed as "radical" and "extreme"?

I say give it 5 years or so and this place is going to be a massive vacation destination.

but the American NY Times used Myanmar.

The ruling military junta changed its name from Burma to Myanmar in 1989, a year after thousands were killed in the suppression of a popular uprising. Rangoon also became Yangon.

The Adaptation of Expression Law also introduced English language names for other towns, some of which were not ethnically Burmese.

The change was recognised by the United Nations, and by countries such as France and Japan, but not by the United States and the UK.

A statement by the Foreign Office says: "Burma's democracy movement prefers the form 'Burma' because they do not accept the legitimacy of the unelected military regime to change the official name of the country. Internationally, both names are recognised."

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7013943.stm

The article also refers to common UK usage. Would probably be years before common usage here changed to Mynamar. I still use Ceylon for Sri Lanka - goes back to collecting stamps as a kid.