''Weekly Eleven'' is a weekly

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

published in

Myanmar Myanmar, ; UK pronunciations: US pronunciations incl. . Note: Wikipedia's IPA conventions require indicating /r/ even in British English although only some British English speakers pronounce r at the end of syllables. As John Wells explai ...

(Burma). It is one of the five weekly journals published by

Eleven Media Group Eleven Media Group was founded in 2000 by Than Htut Aung in Yangon, Myanmar. It has five weekly publications in Burmese specializing in news and sports. Reporters without Borders awarded the "Media of the Year" 2011 for its long standing against t ...

which was founded in June 2000. It is focused on general local news and some sports and international news. It won the "Media of the Year" award in 2011 from

Reporters Without Borders Reporters Without Borders (RWB; french: Reporters sans frontières; RSF) is an international non-profit and non-governmental organization with the stated aim of safeguarding the right to freedom of information. It describes its advocacy as found ...

, for standing up to the junta and "using extraordinary ingenuity to slip through the censorship net and inform the public". A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed in Yangon on 4 May 2012 by Nation Multimedia Group chairman Suthichai Yoon and Eleven Media Group chairman and CEO Dr Than Htut Aung to form a joint venture in a wide range of English-language publications.

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Official website of Eleven Media Group
Weekly newspapers published in Myanmar {{Myanmar-newspaper-stub

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