The Myanmar News Agency ( my, မြန်မာသတင်းဌာန; abbreviated MNA) is the official
state
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news agency
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of the
Myanmar government
Myanmar ( also known as Burma) operates ''de jure'' as a unitary assembly-independent republic under its 2008 constitution. On 1 February 2021, Myanmar's military took over the government in a coup, causing ongoing anti-coup protests.
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, based in
Yangon
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,
Burma
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. It was established in 1963 after the
1962 Burmese coup d'état
The 1962 Burmese coup d'état on 2 March 1962 marked the beginning of one-party rule and the political dominance of the army in Burma (now Myanmar) which spanned the course of 26 years. In the coup, the military replaced the civilian AFPFL-g ...
as News Agency Burma (NAB). It is currently under the News and Periodical Enterprise of the
Ministry of Information. MNA has the sole right to take pictures of government-arranged events, including meetings of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and government officials. Local Burmese weeklies rely on the MNA for pictures to be carried with their stories.
The agency is run by the Ministry of Information and
censors
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most national and foreign news. It falls under the News and Periodicals Enterprise, along with three major newspapers.
The agency uses feeds from
Reuters
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The agency was estab ...
and the
Press Trust of India
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.
The MNA has news exchange agreements with international news agencies, including
Xinhua
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,
ITAR-TASS
The Russian News Agency TASS (russian: Информацио́нное аге́нтство Росси́и ТАСС, translit=Informatsionnoye agentstvo Rossii, or Information agency of Russia), abbreviated TASS (russian: ТАСС, label=none) ...
,
Yonhap
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History
Yonhap (, , translit. ' ...
,
Kyodo
is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million ...
,
Tanjug
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,
ANTARA
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,
KPL and
VNA.
[Altbach (1992), p. 228.]
See also
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Censorship in Burma
Censorship in Myanmar (also called Burma) results from government policies in controlling and regulating certain information, particularly on religious, ethnic, political, and moral grounds.
Freedom of speech and the press are not guaranteed ...
*
Media of Burma
The print, broadcast and online mass media in Burma (also known as Myanmar) has undergone strict censorship and regulation since the 1962 Burmese coup d'état. The constitution provides for freedom of speech and the press; however, the governme ...
Notes
References
* Altbach, Philip (1992). ''Publishing and development in the Third World.'' H. Zell. .
* Ang, Peng & Ramanathan, Sankaran (2000). ''Communication in ASEAN.'' Asian Media Information and Communication Centre. .
* Gupta, Amita (2006). ''Concise Encyclopaedia Of India Vol. 3.'' Atlantic Publishers & Distributors. .
* Gunaratne, Shelton (2000). ''Handbook of the media in Asia.'' Sage Publications. .
* Shrivastava, K (2007). ''News agencies from pigeon to internet.'' Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd. .
1963 establishments in Burma
Government agencies established in 1963
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