The Myanmar News Agency (; abbreviated MNA) is the official state news agency of the Myanmar government, based in Yangon, Burma. It was established as News Agency Burma (NAB) in 1963, following the 1962 Burmese coup d'état.Shrivastava, 2007, p. 301Gunaratne, 2000, p. 353 It is currently under the News and Periodical Enterprise of the Ministry of Information. MNA has the sole right to take pictures of government-arranged events, including meetings of opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and government officials. Local Burmese weeklies rely on the MNA for pictures that they carry with their stories.
The agency is run by the Ministry of Information and censors most national and foreign news.Ang & Ramanathan, 2000, p. 136 It falls under the News and Periodicals Enterprise, along with three major newspapers.Myanmar to introduces journalism degree course for first time. Xinhua. September 5, 2007
The agency uses feeds from Reuters and the Press Trust of India.Gupta, 2006, p. 1079
The MNA has news exchange agreements with international news agencies, including Xinhua, ITAR-TASS, Yonhap, Kyodo, Tanjug, ANTARA, KPL and VNA.Altbach (1992), p. 228.
See also Censorship in Burma Media of Burma
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