It rated 2017 as yet another year where the free press was regulated and intimidated by the military government. For one thing, over the past few decades Thailand has generally been the only country in the group with a reliably free press. Myanmar and Cambodia, where the media has recently enjoyed expanding freedom, have turned around and once again are world-class threats to freedom of the press. The important thing here is that the Myanmar regime considers it an embarrassment. Just as democracy can never exist without free, fair elections, so there cannot be freedom without an unfettered press.

Source: Bangkok Post January 01, 2018 21:33 UTC