Bernama

BERNAMA (Malay: Berita Nasional Malaysia; English: Malaysian National News Agency) is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body placed under the Ministry of Information, Communication and Culture. Bernama is an abbreviation of Berita Nasional Malaysia. Bernama also means named or titled in the Malay langugage. It was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started work on 26 May 1968. Being the Malaysian government's official news agency, Bernama's content and views are decidedly right-leaning and pro-government of the day.

BERNAMA operates from its headquarters at Wisma Bernama, off Jalan Tun Razak near National Library, Kuala Lumpur. It has its branches in every state in Malaysia. It also has correspondents in Jakarta, Singapore, New Delhi, Bangkok, Beijing and Dubai and also its stringers in Washington D.C., Australia and London. Most of the news media in Malaysia and Singapore and international news agencies subscribe to BERNAMA.

Bernama began reporting using the audio-visual medium with the opening of its audio-visual division in September 1998. It also has its own radio and TV channel, Radio24, which is a 24-hour news and talk radio station broadcasting in the areas of Kuala Lumpur and Johor Bahru, and Bernama TV a news channel which offers news in Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil.