News blackout as Burma frees Nobel peace heroine

Burma’s state press today blacked out the news of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi’s release from house arrest, hailed by world leaders as a first step towards restoring democracy after years of military rule.

The front pages of state-owned newspapers, including the English-language New Light of Myanmar, were devoted to the activities of the visiting Vietnamese president Tran Duc Luong.