Sitting in his living room, where he normally meets visitors, Rev. Kawdonyan, the Abbot of Kamarchem Mon Monastery in Yangon had said, “We have never sold out our monthly publication; even my fellow monks are not interested”.The Abbot made his comment during the meeting of the Amartdein Journal team at his Monastery just around the corner from the Shwedagon Pagoda in Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon. Founded by activists and politicians during the period of the Burmese military dictatorship, Amartdein has published a Mon language monthly journal for 21 years. But during this time, publications were heavily controlled by the ruling government. Since 2010, the situation has changed, allowing some space following the democracy transition after a semi-civilian government took office.