freococo/myawady-raw-dataset

Myawady Raw News Corpus 🇲🇲

This dataset contains over 59,000 full-text Burmese news articles scraped from the Myawady News Portal, the official media outlet of the Myanmar military government.

Unlike the title-only version, this dataset includes complete article content, with metadata fields such as category, publication date, and image URLs. It is intended for use in Myanmar NLP and AI research, including:

• 🧠 Language modeling
• 📰 Text summarization
• 🏷️ Named entity recognition (NER)
• ❓ Question answering
• 📚 Lexicon and dictionary construction
• 📊 Text classification
• 🤖 Content generation
• 🔍 Information extraction

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🗂️ Dataset Overview

• Name: myawady-raw-dataset
• Language: Burmese (Myanmar)
• Format: CSV
• Rows: 59,708
• Columns: url, title, content, category, image, date, admin
• Source: Myawady News Portal (state-run)

All rows with missing content have been removed to ensure minimum quality. No further editing has been applied to the article text.

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🕒 Dataset Time Range (Nearly Five Years)

The articles in this dataset span from: • Start: Saturday, July 25, 2020 – 09:58 AM • End: May 19, 2025 (last collected date)

This period includes significant events in Myanmar’s modern political history and should be considered when analyzing or building models.

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🧠 Use Cases

This dataset supports a wide range of NLP and NLU applications for the Myanmar language:

• Text generation (headlines, summaries, completions)
• Lexical resources for Burmese dictionary building
• NER training (organizations, places, military units, etc.)
• Content classification (by category, tone, or propaganda intent)
• Question answering from local news content
• Language modeling and fine-tuning for Burmese LLMs

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🔍 Dataset Fields

Column	Description
url	Original article link on Myawady
title	Article headline
content	Full article text
category	News category (e.g., politics, defense, sports)
image	Associated image URL
date	Publication date
admin	Usually admin_webportal (uploaded source)

Example:

url,title,content,category,image,date,admin
https://www.myawady.net.mm/node/69173,"ကျိုက်လတ်မြို့၌ သဘာဝ ဘေးအန္တရာယ်ဆိုင်ရာ...", "ကျိုက်လတ်မြို့၌ သဘာဝဘေးအန္တရာယ်ဆိုင်ရာ...", "ပြည်တွင်းသတင်း", "https://www.myawady.net.mm/sites/default/files/16512.jpg", "Fri, 05/16/2025 - 08:36", "admin_webportal"

⚠️ Ethical and Political Disclaimer

Important Context This dataset is sourced from the Myawady News Portal, a publication under the control of the Myanmar military junta, and created using taxpayer funds.

As such: • ⚠️ The dataset may include pro-military, nationalist, anti-democracy, or extremist narratives • ⚠️ Content may reflect biases, state propaganda, or political messaging • 🧠 Users should apply critical analysis and ethical consideration • 📚 Shared for transparency, research, and language technology, not for endorsing any ideology

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📜 License and Intent

This dataset is shared under an “as-is” public interest license. While the original content belongs to the Myanmar state, it was created using public tax funds and should be accessible to the people of Myanmar and the world.

I assert: • 📣 This work was not funded or commissioned • 🧱 I do not claim copyright • 🤝 I compiled and structured it to preserve the Myanmar language and support open AI research

✅ You may: • Use, share, and modify this dataset • Use it for academic, commercial, or research purposes • Train or evaluate NLP models with it

❌ You may NOT: • Misrepresent the origin or authorship • Claim ownership over the original news content

Use at your own discretion.

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💬 Author’s Note

This dataset was created by a Myanmar citizen and open-source language researcher. I receive no compensation for this work.

I simply want to: • 🕊️ Preserve and support the Myanmar language in the AI era • ⚖️ Encourage digital equality and data transparency • 🧠 Build open resources for future Burmese NLP tools

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📫 Contact

Have questions, suggestions, or want to collaborate?

Feel free to reach me at: • 📧 Email: [email protected] • 🤗 Hugging Face: https://huggingface.co/freococo

⚠️ Please note: Serious inquiries only. Any spam, scams, or malicious activity will be reported to relevant authorities, including law enforcement if necessary.

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📚 Citation

@misc{myawady2025raw,
  title = {Myawady Raw Burmese News Dataset},
  author = {freococo},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {\url{https://huggingface.co/datasets/freococo/myawady-raw-dataset}},
  note = {Full-text Burmese news dataset scraped from Myawady News Portal}
}