Burma's junta has relaxed a curfew in the main city Rangoon and apparently lifted a block on Internet access, further easing restrictions put in place during mass protests.
Loudspeakers mounted on trucks drove through the city late on Saturday informing people that the curfew would now run for four hours from 11pm to 3am, down from the previous six hours a night from 10pm till 4am.
Internet users also reported that their connections, severed at the height of anti-junta protests last month, had been up and running again since late on Saturday.
The easing of the curfew and the Internet ban, along with a reduced security presence on Rangoon's streets, seemed to imply that the junta believes it has finally quashed the largest protests against its rule in nearly 20 years.
In September, Buddhist monks led up to 100,000 people onto the streets of Rangoon, but the subsequent government crackdown left at least 13 people dead and saw more than 2,000 arrested.
Although restrictions are being lifted and there is little visible army presence in Rangoon, security forces continue to comb through neighbourhoods in search of people linked to last month's protests.
Amnesty International has reported that authorities had arrested six more pro-democracy activists in Rangoon, while concern is growing over the fate of at least 1,000 people still in custody after the rallies.
