"Myanmar?s new government has stopped blocking some foreiggn websites such as the BBC and YouTube in a gesture toward openness that is tempered by remaining harsh laws that still keep readers of such sites at risk of arrest. Once-banned websites that were opened this week for viewing include the Voice of America and the British Broadcasting Corp., as well the Democratic Voice of Burma, Radio Free Asia and the video file sharing site YouTube. The unannounced move is the latest step taken by the Southeast Asian nation?s new leaders to boost hope, however faint, that authoritarian rule here could finally be easing. The country?s long-standing military government handed over power to a nominally civilian regime earlier this year..."