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A newsstand sells a collection of state-approved newspapers and magazines. After most independent media was banned, papers like ultranationalist Hla Swe's Bullet News Journal (bottom right) have become best sellers. (Frontier)

‘Cheats and moneygrubbers’: Journalists for hire in Myanmar

Independent journalists risk death and prison in Myanmar, but the military and its allies are adept at finding media lackeys willing to toe the line and parrot their propaganda – for a price.

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