Kyodo, Myanmar state-run media unit sign news exchange accord

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar - (From L) Kyaw Soe, managing director of News and Periodicals Enterprise, Pike Htwe, deputy minister for Information of Myanmar, and Tomoki Ueda, head of Kyodo News' International Department, join hands on Feb. 26, 2013, at a ceremony in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, where Kyodo, Japan's leading news agency, and NPE, the news department under the Ministry of Information of Myanmar, signed a news exchange and cooperation agreement.