BERNAMA, news source for media in South-East Asia

BERNAMA has branches in every state in Malaysia. It also has correspondents in Jakarta and Singapore; as well as stringers in Washington D.C., Dhaka, New Delhi, Manila, London and Vancouver.

Most of the newspapers in Malaysia, electronic media and other international news agencies subscribe to BERNAMA. It also has an audio-visual unit known as BERNAMA TV which was established in September 1998. Being the Malaysian government's official news agency, BERNAMA's content and views are decidedly right-leaning and pro-government.

In September 2007, it launched a 24-hour news and talk radio station, Radio24. On 28 February 2008, it also launched a 24-hour news channel called Bernama TV, offering news in four languages -- Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil.

The Agency will participate in the 31st Executive Board Meeting (EBM) and the 25th Editorial-Technical Experts Group (ETEG) Meeting in Tehran from November 13 to 17, 2009.

The Mehr News Agency is the host of the five-day event which is to be attended by more than 40 representatives of 18 governmental and non-governmental news agencies from the Asia-Pacific states, including Russia, Japan, China, S. Korea, Indonesia, India, and Malaysia.

On the theme of “A quest for global media balancing”, the meeting will be officially inaugurated on Sunday morning at Tehran Enqelab Hotel, managing director of the Mehr News Agency, also president of Tehran’s EBM and ETEG meetings said.

According to Parviz Esmaeili, the meeting is aimed at closing gaps between the world media.