PM & Justmoi; Please don't bring your pathetic personal spat onto this thread. It's such a shame when two obviously intelligent people who clearly have a lot to offer on a subject such as this undermine themselves by engaging in petty one-upmanship. I will request this thread is deleted if it continues.

I agree with both PM's and Justmoi's points. There's no way journalism will change until the press law changes to give journalists some protection and the practice of illegally holding employees passports is stopped (which is a problem in all sectors of industry).

But the government must be scared that a change in the press law will result in a freedom of press that starts to upset the local population, as stories and letters are printed that go against the culture, tradition and religion of the country, things which I think are intertwined here.

So perhaps the question is, are the government prepared to take that risk, and do Mr Roth and the DCMF have the necessary clout to persuade them to?