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Naypyidaw, officially romanized as Nay Pyi Taw (NPT), [a] [b] is the capital and third-largest city of Myanmar. The city is located at the centre of the Naypyidaw Union Territory . [ 1 ] It is unusual among Myanmar's cities in that it is an entirely planned city outside of any state or region .
Until the launch of Yangon City FM in 2001, BBS/Myanmar Radio was the only radio station in the country. For years, its main broadcast centre is at 426 Pyay Road in Kamayut in Yangon. Since late 2007, the main broadcast station has moved to Naypyidaw. Yangon Station now mostly relays Naypyidaw Station's programming. [citation needed]
Myanmar Radio National Service (Burmese: မြန်မာ့အသံ; formerly, Burma Broadcasting Service (BBS)), is the national radio service of Myanmar.It has its broadcasting headquarters in both the administrative capital of Naypyidaw and Yangon, Myanmar's largest city.
The release of Aung San Suu Kyi and around 20,000 fellow political prisoners will be the most crucial step towards ending the conflict in Myanmar, the country’s government-in-exile has said. The ...
Myanmar’s military government has acknowledged that it withdrew its forces from a key city on the northeastern border with China after it was taken over by an alliance of ethnic armed groups it ...
The capitals of states and regions in Myanmar are bolded. In Myanmar, the definition of a city is ambiguous with the Burmese term မြို့ ('myo') being translated as any urban area. The General Administration Department only explicitly defines the three cities of Yangon, Mandalay and Naypyidaw. [2] An enlargeable map of Myanmar.
The country's capital city is Naypyidaw, and its largest city is Yangon (formerly Rangoon). Myanmar is a member of the East Asia Summit, Non-Aligned Movement, ASEAN, and BIMSTEC, but it is not a member of the Commonwealth of Nations despite once being part of the British Empire. Myanmar is a Dialogue Partner of the Shanghai Cooperation ...
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 Myanmar's first Burmese-language newspaper, Yadanapon Naypyidaw Thadinsa (ရတနာပုံနေပြည်တော်သတင်းစာ) to ...