The New Light of Myanmar (Burmese: မြန်မာ့အလင်း; MLCTS: mran ma.
a. lang:, IPA: [mjànma̰ álín]; formerly The New Light of Burma) rebranded as The Global New Light of Myanmar is a government-owned newspaper published by the Ministry of Information and based in Yangon, Myanmar.
The New Light of Myanmar has been described as being propaganda for the Tatmadaw and the government, and features many articles about military officials.
The counterpart of the Myanmar-language Myanmar Alin (Burmese: မြန်မာ့အလင်), the New Light of Myanmar is claimed by its editors to be the oldest English-language daily, first published on 12 January 1964 as The Working People's Daily.
[1] According to Bertil Lintner of The Irrawaddy, another New Light of Myanmar had been founded in 1914, published initially as a magazine before becoming a newspaper.