BERNAMA (Malay: Berita Nasional Malaysia; English: Malaysian National News Agency) is a press agency of the government of Malaysia. It was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started work on 26 May 1968.
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.[citation needed]
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, aired on Astro Channel 502, offering news in four languages - Malay, English, Mandarin and Tamil.
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