''The New Light of Myanmar'' (, ; formerly ''The New Light of Burma'') is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in

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. ''The New Light of Myanmar'' is often viewed as propaganda on part of the

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and the government, and features many articles about military officials. The majority of domestic news articles comes from the state-run

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(MNA), whilst most international articles come from news services, particularly

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, which are published after censorship by the MNA.

History

The counterpart of the Myanmar-language '' Myanmar Alin'' ( my, မြန်မာ့အလင်), the ''New Light of Myanmar'' is claimed by its editors to be the oldest English-language daily, first published on 12 January 1964 as ''The Working People’s Daily''. The newspaper took on its current name on 17 April 1993. According to

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of ''

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'', another ''New Light of Myanmar'' had been founded in 1914, published initially as a magazine before becoming a newspaper. It was managed by

U Tin Sithu U Tin (1890–1972) was a prominent Burmese architect and engineer, best known for designing the Yangon City Hall Yangon City Hall ( my, ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်ခန်းမ; YCH) is the city hall of Yangon, the ...

from 1920 to 1947. The newspaper was shut down by the military junta in 1969.

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* Daily newspapers published in Myanmar Mass media in Yangon Publications established in 1964 State media {{Myanmar-newspaper-stub

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