POST, NATION GET MYANMAR DISTRIBUTION

The Bangkok Post and The Nation, Thailand's two English language daily newspapers, have begun official distributed in Myanmar.

A report in the Myanmar Times details how a local distribution company will be importing 20 copies of each newspaper, targeting embassies, hotels, businesses and newspaper publishers in Yangon. The number of copies will be increase in response to demand, the report says, and copies will be delivered no later than 4pm each day once they have been censored by government authorities.

“We have to struggle to compete against agents in [the market for] international newspapers. Cleaners take copies of the Bangkok Post as they sweep the plane after Thai Airways’ flights land in Yangon International Airport,” said U Myo Aung, the Managing Director of the Success International distribution company. News vendors buy up these copies, fix them up and then resell them around Bogyoke Market.

There's something familiar about that. Swap Myanmar for Thailand and Bogyoke for Chatuchak and that's exactly what happens with magazines here.