Kyemon tends to carry more human interest stories whereas Myanmar Alin is more geared towards publishing government propaganda.

Kyemon was founded in 1957 in Yangon by journalist U Thaung during Myanmar's brief experiment with parliamentary democracy and free media between 1948 and 1962.

[2][3] After seizing power in March 1962, the military government of Gen. Ne Win cracked down on media, and nationalized all the daily newspapers, including Kyemon, in 1964.

)[2] The future poet laureate Soe Nyunt served as editor-in-chief of Kyemon from 1985 to 1990, going on to become Deputy Minister of Information from 1992 to 2003.

[5] Kyemon survived the military government's crackdowns on news media that left the country with only three national newspapers.