![]() I had hoped to meet U Thiha Saw, the paper's editor-in-chief and publisher. There's talk of plenty more to come, notably by the weekly Myanmar Times, half-owned by the indomitable Australian Ross Dunkley.Īll the private, legal Burmese (or "Myanma") news publications with English editions or English news sites contain plenty of interesting or critical articles but I was especially disappointed to see Freedom Daily's closure because it had such a range of sources, including representatives of restive ethnic groups and even the Kachin Independence Army, which is engaged in all-out war with the state. Thirty-one licenses for dailies have been issued in the past year, although only nine daily papers are now being published.
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