Friday, 03 September 2010 14:07 Khaing Suu
New Delhi (Mizzima) – Continuing to strengthen its relationship with Burma, India is to invite 26 journalists from the estranged Southeast Asian country for a two-week training cum exposure program.
journal-trainning-indiaThose selected for training are young journalists employed by weekly Rangoon and Mandalay journals.
“We will take this training from the 17th of this month to the 2nd of next month in India, but we don’t yet know about the details of the training,” a reporter from one Rangoon-based journal commented.
The Indian embassy in Rangoon confirmed to Mizzima that the 26 Burmese journalists are to leave for New Delhi in the middle of this month.
“We arranged this training as there are no proper and adequate media trainings for journalists in Burma,” second secretary Dr. Madan Mohan Sethi from the Indian embassy told Mizzima. He also said he could not yet divulge details of the training.
Yangon Media Group CEO Ko Ko told Mizzima that he had requested international media exposure for young Burmese journalists from a senior official in India’s Foreign Ministry while on a study tour of ASEAN countries in May of this year. This training program is a result of his overture, he added.
Selected weekly journals were each permitted to name two trainees.
Burma is well known for its lack of press freedom, with every journal article needing clearance from the censor board as well as severe obstacles for foreign journalists wishing to work in the country.
Friday, September 3, 2010
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