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The Myanmar Times was founded by Ross Dunkley, an Australian, and Sonny Swe (Myat Swe) of Myanmar in 2000, making it the only Burmese newspaper to have foreign investment at the time. [2] The newspaper is privately owned by Myanmar Consolidated Media Co. Ltd. (MCM), which is 51 per cent locally owned and 49 per cent foreign owned.
The Myanmar Times, [33] a Burmese weekly news journal (daily newspaper in English) Premier Eleven Sports Journal [11] Popular News Journal [34] Seven Days News or 7 Days News Journal - private weekly newspaper (Burmese) [1] [35] Seven Days Sports [36] The Voice Weekly (Burmese) [37] Weekly Eleven [11] The Irrawaddy [38] The Yangon Times [39] [40]
In 1836, the country's first newspaper, The Maulmain Chronicle, was published [7] followed by The Rangoon Chronicle in 1853, [8] later renamed to The Rangoon Times. King Mindon was an advocate of press freedom and encouraged the creation of Burma's first Burmese-language newspaper, Yadanapon Naypyidaw Thadinsa (ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော်သတင်းစာ) to report ...
According to a Financial Times article, The Irrawaddy initially received support from international donors like the National Endowment for Democracy and Open Society Foundations. Despite its critical role in reporting on Myanmar’s issues, the publication has faced scrutiny and accusations of bias.
He began his career at Unity Weekly Journal in 2010. He previously worked as a senior reporter at the Frontier Myanmar, The Myanmar Times and Mizzima. [2] [3] [4] He won the 2017 Agence France-Presse Kate Webb Prize for his coverage of ethnic and religious conflict in Myanmar's borderlands, despite risk of prosecution or injury.
Can we imagine ourselves back on that awful day in the summer of 2010, in the hot firefight that went on for nine hours? Men frenzied with exhaustion and reckless exuberance, eyes and throats burning from dust and smoke, in a battle that erupted after Taliban insurgents castrated a young boy in the village, knowing his family would summon nearby Marines for help and the Marines would come ...
Khit Thit Pyo May (Burmese: ခေတ်သစ်ပျိုမေ; lit. ' Girls in New Era ') is a popular Burmese live talk show broadcast on MRTV-4. [1] The talk show follows the conversations of beautiful and talented women. [2]
As of 2007, the News and Publishing Enterprise published the Myanmar Alin and the Kyaymon in Burmese and the New Light of Myanmar in English. [4] On 18 November 2011, the Ministry of Information began publishing a weekly journal called the Naypyitaw Times, to report on government policies. [5]