The Myanmar News Agency (; abbreviated MNA) is the official

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of the Myanmar government, based in

Yangon Yangon, formerly romanized as Rangoon, is the capital of the Yangon Region and the largest city of Myanmar. Yangon was the List of capitals of Myanmar, capital of Myanmar until 2005 and served as such until 2006, when the State Peace and Dev ...

Burma Myanmar, officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar; and also referred to as Burma (the official English name until 1989), is a country in northwest Southeast Asia. It is the largest country by area in Mainland Southeast Asia and ha ...

. It was established in 1963 after the 1962 Burmese coup d'état 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 most national and foreign news. It falls under the News and Periodicals Enterprise, along with three major newspapers. The agency uses feeds from

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and the

Press Trust of India The Press Trust of India Ltd., commonly known as PTI, is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in New Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers. It has over 500 full-time employees , including abo ...

. The MNA has news exchange agreements with international news agencies, including

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, ITAR-TASS,

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, Kyodo, Tanjug, ANTARA, KPL and VNA.Altbach (1992), p. 228.

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* 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 News agencies based in Myanmar Mass media in Yangon Government agencies of Myanmar {{Myanmar-media-stub

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