The Botataung

The Botataung
‹See Tfd›ဗိုလ်တထောင် သတင်းစာ
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatTabloid
Founded1958
LanguageBurmese
Ceased publication1993?
HeadquartersBotataung, Yangon, Myanmar

The Botataung (Burmese: ဗိုလ်တထောင် သတင်းစာ [bòtətʰàʊɰ̃ ðədɪ́ɰ̃zà]) was a national Burmese language daily newspaper based out of Yangon in Myanmar. 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's government.[1][2] 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.[3] The Botataung did not survive the military government's cuts in the number of newspapers in the early 1990s.

The Botataung took its name from Yangon's Botataung Township, where its main headquarters was located.

  1. ^ Lintner, Bertil (2019-04-24). Burma In Revolt: Opium And Insurgency Since 1948. Routledge. p. 356. ISBN 978-0-429-70058-3.
  2. ^ Lintner, Bertil (1990). Outrage: Burma's Struggle for Democracy. White Lotus. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-9515814-1-4.
  3. ^ Coronel, Sheila S. (2001). The Right to Know: Access to Information in Southeast Asia. Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism. p. 28. ISBN 978-971-8686-34-8.