Weekly Myanmar Times to go daily
The 20-page newspaper will be printed in Burmese.
From the source article, Democratic Voice of Burma, it’s unclear whether the Myanmar Times will be switching from weekly or if the publisher will start a new daily.
If the daily Myanmar Times obtains government approval, it would be the first private daily to be published in Myanmar since the military government’s takeover in 1962.
But this probably won’t do that much good to the situation of the free press in Myanmar.
“If the regime allows Dunkley to publish a newspaper, it will become a colorful mouthpiece of the junta,” said one editor, as quoted by the Please Help Burma blog. “He is an apologist of the junta, keeping real news of what’s going on in Burma under the carpet.”
Source: Please Help Burma blog - Democratic Voice of Burma through IFRA Executive News Service
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