The Botataung ( ) was a national

Burmese language Burmese (; ) is a Tibeto-Burman languages, Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Myanmar, where it is the official language, lingua franca, and the native language of the Bamar people, Bamar, the country's largest ethnic group. Burmese dialects are a ...

daily

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based out of

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 ...

Myanmar 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 has ...

. The paper, founded in 1958 by Thein Pe Myint, was arguably the leading leftist newspaper prior to its nationalization in 1964 by General

Ne Win Ne Win (; ; 24 May 1911 – 5 December 2002), born Shu Maung (; ), was a Burmese army general, politician and Prime Minister of Burma from 1958 to 1960 and 1962 to 1974, and also President of Burma from 1962 to 1981. Ne Win was Burma's mili ...

's government. It became one of four Burmese-language dailies allowed to publish in the 1970s and 1980s although all the papers were owned and controlled by the military government and they all published more or less the same news articles. The Botataung did not survive the

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's cuts in the number of newspapers in the early 1990s. The Botataung took its name from Yangon's

Botataung Township Botataung Township ( ; also Botahtaung Township) is an area of Yangon, Myanmar. Named after the Botahtaung Pagoda, the township consists of ten wards, and shares borders with Pazundaung Township is in the north and the east, Seikkan Township a ...

, where its main headquarters was located.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Botataung, The Daily newspapers published in Myanmar Mass media in Yangon Newspapers disestablished in the 1990s Newspapers established in 1958 Defunct daily newspapers

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