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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.
Myanmar Business Today - Myanmar's first bilingual (English-Myanmar) business newspaper [14] Myanmar Digest [30] Myanmar Post - privately owned [31] Sunday Journal [32] The Myanmar Times, [33] a Burmese weekly news journal (daily newspaper in English) Premier Eleven Sports Journal [11] Popular News Journal [34]
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 ...
According to the Myanmar Times, the British wanted the tomb to be "lost and forgotten, and hoped to leave no trace that could allow the body to be identified." [6] In February 1991, workers who were digging for a drain discovered a "brick lined tomb." On top of it was an inscription and soon the body's identity was found.
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]
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.
Myanmar is known by a name deriving from Burma in Spanish, Italian, Romanian, and Greek. [53] French-language media consistently use Birmanie. [54] [55] There are at least nine different pronunciations of the English name Myanmar, and no single one is standard. Pronunciations with two syllables are found most often in major British and American ...
Ma Ma Lay was born Ma Tin Hlaing in Karmaklu Village, Ayeyarwady Division, Myanmar in 1917. Her literary career began in 1936 when her article "To Become Knowledgeable Women" was published in the Myanma Alin newspaper. She later married Chit Maung the chief editor of Myanma Alin in 1938. Together, they founded The Journal Kyaw newspaper in 1939 ...