List of newspapers in Myanmar

This is a list of newspapers in Myanmar.

Daily newspapers

State-run

• Kyemon (The Mirror) - a government-run daily newspaper (Burmese)[1][2]
• Myanma Alin (The Light of Myanmar) - a government-run daily newspaper (Burmese)[1][3]
• Myawady Daily - a military-run daily newspaper[4]
• New Light of Myanmar - a government-run daily newspaper formerly named The Working People's Daily (Burmese and English) [1][5][6]
• The Yadanabon - a government-run daily newspaper[7]

Private

• 7 Day News[8][9] (Burmese)
• China Daily Global Edition - a private daily English Newspaper (English)
• D-Wave (owned by National League for Democracy)[10]
• Daily Eleven[11]
• Empire Daily[9]
• Golden Fresh Land[12]
• The Messenger[13]
• Myanmar Business Today[14]
• The Myanmar Times[1][15] - a private daily English newspaper (weekly in Burmese)
• The Standard Time Daily[16]
• The Straits Times Myanmar Edition - a private daily newspaper (English)[17]
• The Union Daily (owned by Union Solidarity and Development Party)[9]
• The Voice Daily[18]
• The Yangon Times[9]

Weekly newspapers and journals

• A-Myin-thit - Ministry of Interior, special branch weekly newspaper (Burmese)
• BiWeekly Eleven
• Burma Today (Burmese)[19]
• The Commerce Journal[20]
• Education Digest Journal (Burmese)[21]
• First Eleven Sports Journal[11][22]
• Flower News - private weekly newspaper (Burmese) [23]
• Frontier Myanmar (English) [24]
• Internet Journal (English and Burmese)[25]
• Kanaung Journal of Industry and Commerce [26]
• Kumudra (Burmese)[27]
• Hmukhin Shudaunk (Crime Journal) (Burmese)[28][29]
• 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]
• 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]
• Zay Gwet (Myanmar Market Journal)[41]
• Pyi Myanmar News Journal[42]
• Good Health Journal[43]
• The Tanintharyi Weekly[44][45]

Published overseas

• Mizzima News Agency[46]
• Mandalay Gazette[47]
• Freedom News Group[48][49]

Defunct popular and influential newspapers

• The Botataung (Burmese)[50]
• Daily Sport Journal
• Democracy (ceased publication in 2019)[51]
• The Guardian (Burmese and English)
• Myanmar Freedom Daily - a private daily newspaper (English) (Last published 2015)[52]
• The Nation (Burmese and English)[53][54]
• Phoenix - entertainment weekly, banned from publishing from August 2009 for unspecified reasons[55]
• The Worker (Burmese)

See also

• Media of Myanmar

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