Internet access is highly prohibitive -- US$1,300 for a broadband connection with Myanmar Teleport, Burma's state-run Internet service provider. 'The cost is too steep for citizens, with the average national household's monthly income of only 58,000 kyat (US$42),' said Win.

Nepal is another country with a highly-controlled press. The history of Nepal media detailed a news ban on the country's more than 40 private FM radio stations resulting to the unemployment of 2000 radio journalists. Newspaper copies cut by military censors appeared as blank spaces, until these blank spaces were later on banned.

Journalists from Nepal, though, have found the Internet as a way to circumvent restrictions. The Internet was a vital way of transmitting information abroad.