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Yangon: Four private
daily newspapers started temporary publication Monday, signifying
the re-introduction of private daily newspapers in the Southeast
Asian nation after a gap of five decades.
The four daily newspapers put into circulation are Pyidaungsu
Daily (Union Daily), Shwe Naing Ngan Thit Daily (Golden Freshland
Daily), San Taw Chein Daily (Standard Times Daily) and Voice
Daily, reported Xinhua.
The Union Daily is run by the ruling Union Solidarity and
Development Party (USDP).
A dozen daily newspapers are expected to begin printing at a later
date. They include Khit Moe Daily, Empire Daily, the Messenger,
Up-Date Daily, Myanmar Newsweek Daily, Mizzima Daily, Eleven
Daily, Khit Thit Daily, Yangon Times, Myanmar Dika, Union Athan,
7-Day Daily and D-Wave.
There are some six state-owned newspapers published daily in
Myanmar -- Myanmar Alin (Myanmar language), Kyemon (The Mirror)
(Myanmar language), Myawaddy (Myanmar language), The New Light of
Myanmar (English language) and Yadanarpon (Myanmar language), in
addition to over 200 private-run weekly news journals in Myanmar,
English and Chinese languages as well as over 200 magazines and
nearly 7,000 private publishers.
More than 20 offices of foreign news agencies are also operating
in the country.
As part of its significant media reform, the government announced
in December 2012 free publication of private daily newspapers,
dissolving its Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, a
follow-up move after domestic media publication control was
totally liberalized in August 2012.
The Myanmar government also reformed its 29-member provisional
Myanmar Press Council in September 2012 to deal with media issues
before a press media law is formally enacted by parliament.
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