In a first for the BBC in Myanmar, news headlines from bbc.com/burmese are now directly available to users of Yangon-based website Frontier Myanmar. Top ten news headlines from the BBC’s Burmese site will be published on Frontier Myanmar every day, allowing users to click through to full BBC stories.
Frontier Myanmar is known for its distinctive investigative journalism and insight into issues that matter in today’s Myanmar.
BBC Burmese Editor, Min Htet, says: “We are really thrilled to be expanding our reach via a distinguished media group such as Frontier Myanmar. Over and beyond our top ten stories, visitors to our website will find in-depth analysis of the events and trends that are relevant to them, as well as features on a wide range of themes, video and audio stories.”
Sonny Swe, CEO of Frontier Myanmar, adds: “Over the last two and half years, Frontier Myanmar has been trying to report the true news of Myanmar and has been recognized internationally as ‘the window on Myanmar’. I am glad and proud to partner an internationally renowned broadcaster such as the BBC. I am looking forward to more cooperation with the BBC as I believe it will be beneficial for every reader of our website.”
Burmese-speaking audiences can access the BBC on bbc.com/burmese, via the BBC’s Burmese-language Facebook page (which has around 12m followers) as well as Twitter and YouTube, and tune in to the daily radio broadcasts, evening (GMT 1330-1415) and morning (GMT 0000-0030) on shortwave radio.
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For more information, please contact:
BBC Global News Communications – Lala Najafova lala.najafova@bbc.co.uk
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