Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar

24/03/2021

AP Photojournalist Thein Zaw, one of our club’s executives, has been released from Insein Prison in northern Yangon today, after being detained there for 26-days, since arrested on February 27, while covering protests in Hledan Intersection area.

Upon his release, Thein Zaw thanked all those who had supported and helped for his freedom and expressed hope for similar release of other detained journalists.

Welcome back Thein Zaw!!

18/03/2021

Today is the birthday of AP photographer Thein Zaw, our club executive, who has been detained by the police since February 27 while he was simply doing his job covering the protests at Hledan Intersection area in Yangon. He has been detained in Insein Jail since facing charges under public order law.

We friends and colleagues at the FCCM are very much looking forward for your quick release and celebrate the birthday together soon.

Happy Birthday!! Thein Zaw
🎂🎊🎉🎈🎁

12/03/2021

Statement on charges against journalists

28/02/2021

FCCM Statement on the arrest of Associated Press photographer

Date: 28 February, 2021

The Associated Press photographer, Thein Zaw, was arrested while he was just carrying out his journalistic work at Hledan Intersection area in Yangon Saturday.

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar condemns in the strongest possible term the arrest of our member journalist, who was just doing his job professionally.

The FCCM calls for immediate and unconditional release of Thein Zaw and other detained journalists, and urges all relevant authorities to ensure the safety and security of the journalists who are performing their professional duties covering the ongoing protests in the country.

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27/12/2020

Video recording of the first FCCM Guest Talk (Online) program,with Professor Dr. Saw Win, Vice Chairman of National Immunization Technical Advisory Group, conducted Saturday December 26, 2020.
Dr. Saw Win responded to questions on expectations and plans for the arrival of Covid-19 vaccine in Myanmar and on how ready the country is for the vaccine deployment. He also explained extensively on options available and the choices made by the country regarding vaccine availability through WHO's Covax facility and procedures to acquire from different channels including the private sector.

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ နိုင်ငံခြားသတင်းထောက်များအသင်းရဲ့ ပထမ ဆုံး FCCM’s Guest Talk ဗွီဒီယိုမှတ်တမ်းပါ။ ၂၆.၁၂.၂၀၂၀ ရက်နေ့ (စနေနေ့) မှာ ကျင်းပခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီအစီအစဉ်မှာ အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ဆေးဆိုင်ရာ နည်းပညာအထောက်အကူအဖွဲ့ (National Immunization Technical Advisory Group) ရဲ့ ဒုတိယ ဥက္ကဌ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ဆရာကြီးဒေါက်တာစောဝင်း ကို "Covid-19 and Vaccines for Myanmar" ဆိုတဲ့ခေါင်းစဉ် နဲ့ ပြောကြားပေးခဲ့တာပါ။

27/12/2020

Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar has conducted its first FCCM Guest Talk program on Saturday December 26, 2020, with Professor Dr. Saw Win, Vice Chairman of National Immunization Technical Advisory Group as the speaker. An hour long members only talk, joined by over 20 journalists from 16 different foreign media organizations, was conducted online over Zoom platform, under the title "Covid-19 and Vaccines in Myanmar", included with Q&A session during which Dr. Saw Win responded to questions on expectations and plans for the arrival of Covid-19 vaccine in Myanmar and on how ready the country is for the vaccine deployment. The professor also explained extensively on options available and the choices made by the country regarding vaccine availability through WHO's Covax facility and procedures to acquire from different channels including the private sector.

အွန်လိုင်းကနေတဆင့်ပြုလုပ်တဲ့ FCCM မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ နိုင်ငံခြားသတင်းထောက် အသင်းရဲ့ ပထမ ဆုံး FCCM’s Guest Talk. အစီအစဉ် ကို ၂၆.၁၂.၂၀၂၀ (စနေနေ့) နေ့ မှာ အောင်မြင်စွာကျင်းပ နိုင်ခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ဆေးဆိုင်ရာ နည်းပညာအထောက်အကူအဖွဲ့ (National Immunization Technical Advisory Group) ရဲ့ ဒုတိယ ဥက္ကဌ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ဆရာကြီးဒေါက်တာစောဝင်း ကို "Covid-19 and Vaccines for Myanmar" ဆိုတဲ့ခေါင်းစဉ် နဲ့ အဆိုပါ စကားဝိုင်း အစီအစဉ် ကို နိုင်ငံခြား သတင်းဋ္ဌာန ၁၆ ခုမှ မြန်မာန်ိုင်ငံနိုင်ငံခြား သတင်းထောက်များ အသင်းဝင် ၂၁ ဦး ပါဝင်ခဲ့ကြပြီး ပြည်တွင်း က ဌာနေသတင်းထောက်များအပြင်အသင်းဝင် နိုင်ငံခြားသားသတင်းထောက်များကလည်း ၎င်းတို့သိရှိနားလည်လိုတဲ့ အကြောင်းအချက်များ ကို စိတ်ဝင်တစား မေးမြန်းခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။

22/12/2020

Two private hospitals in Myanmar's Yangon will now test for COVID-19, as the authorities attempt to ease the burden on government hospitals overloaded with coronavirus cases. CNA correspondent Leong Wai Kit reports from Yangon.

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/some-private-hospitals-in-myanmar-to-help-government-hospitals-13818468

Two private hospitals in Myanmar's Yangon will now test for COVID-19, helping to ease the burden on government hospitals overloaded with coronavirus cases. At least one other hospital tells CNA they are ready to treat COVID-19 patients who have been cared for in government hospitals. Leong Wai Kit r...

07/12/2020

World Press Freedom Conference 2020

9 & 10 December

World Press Freedom Conference 2020 is fully digital this year. Check out the innovative digital platform overview in this video. Register now:
https://www.wpfc2020-digital.com/

The World Press Freedom Conference 2020 Digital Edition will take place on 9-10 december 2020. Join the conference online!

07/12/2020

TEDx Yangon’s conversation with MiMi Aung, Project Manager of the unprecedented Mars Helicopter at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

24/11/2020

cases in tops 80,000 mark as 1,200+ new cases reported for the day. So far 1,765 have been killed by the infection as the deadly second wave continues to threaten the country’s populated major cities.

19/11/2020

A historic day in Myanmar 8 years ago today — the then President Barack Obama visited Burma as the first sitting US president in more than half-a-century.

https://www.facebook.com/DVBTVNews/videos/413798255353497/?vh=e&extid=0

15/11/2020

The table compiled by the local daily The Myanmar Times show the official results of the Myanmar’s 2020 General Election.

- https://twitter.com/tchau01/status/1328003223953809419?s=21

13/11/2020

Myanmar's ruling party led by State Counselor Aung San Suu Kyi has captured much more seats than it needs to retain power, according to official results of Sunday's general election. The party so far Friday evening secured 396 seats while it needed only 322 to retain majority in the over 600 seats bicameral parliament, of which 25% are reserved for military appointees. The military-backed main opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party has so far won a meager 30 seats, while ethnic minority parties have got 47, according to the commission.

https://www.facebook.com/7DayOnlineTV/photos/a.1134524806619220/4697910323613966/?type=3

The Union Election Commission (Burmese: ပြည်ထောင်စု ရွေးကောက်ပွဲ ကော်မရှင်, abbreviated UEC) is the national level electoral commission of Myanmar (Burma), responsible for organising and overseeing elections in Burma, as well as vetting...

23/10/2020

Message of Condolences
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October 23, 2020

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar is saddened to learn the passing away of Hanthawaddy U Ohn Kyaing (94), Chairman of Myanmar Press Council, while taking treatment for his illness in Yangon, this afternoon.

We the members of the FCCM would like to express our deepest sympathies and heartfelt condolences to the executives and members of the MPC for your great loss.

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10/10/2020

The IFJ said: “Access for media workers is critical, especially during a health crisis and in the lead up to an election. Journalists are frontline workers in gathering information that may save lives and help mitigate the impact of the coronavirus outbreak. IFJ urges the authorities to ensure the free movement for journalists so that they can work freely and ensure that authorities are accountable during an election campaign.”

https://www.ifj.org/media-centre/news/detail/category/press-releases/article/myanmar-journalists-face-restrictions-amid-the-pandemic.html

Journalists and media workers face travel restrictions due to the government’s strict new stay-at-home orders. The restriction will also affect foreign journalists who plan to cover the upcoming elections as they will not be able to travel to the country. The International Federation of Journalist...

03/10/2020

Foreign reporters are unlikely to cover the run-up to Myanmar’s general elections in November because of COVID-19 restrictions.

However - “The FCCM understands that the relevant ministries will coordinate with the UEC to ensure a prioritised process for foreign journalists, if and when they apply for an entry visa at respective Myanmar embassies for the election coverage.

Thiha Thwe

https://www.mmtimes.com/news/foreign-reporters-cannot-enter-myanmar-cover-election-run.html

Foreign reporters are unlikely to cover the run-up to Myanmar’s general elections in November because of COVID-19 restrictions imposed by the Daw Aung San Suu Kyi government.

29/09/2020

September 29, 2020

The Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar has noted that the latest “Stay at Home” restriction order for Yangon Region dated September 20, issued by the Ministry of Health and Sports, doesn’t include media coverage operations in the list of exempted activities.

Myanmar is currently facing a serious second wave of COVID-19 pandemic while the country gears up for the 2020 General Election set for November 8.

Amid this background, rumors and fake news on social media have been gaining momentum among the public, thus becoming a powerful setting for exploitation and abuse by the perpetrators.

Under such circumstances, FCCM believes that it is of utmost importance the news media be able to perform its professional duties, including news coverage activities, to be able to deliver correct information to the public and the international community, in an accurate and timely manner.

The FCCM has sent a letter signed by its chairman, to the chair of the National Level Central Committee for Prevention, Control and Treatment of COVID-19, State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, demanding to include media coverage operations in the list of exempted activities from the latest “Stay at Home” order for Yangon.

FCCM

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15/09/2020

For those interested in Affairs

There will be Facebook Live at United Nations Myanmar FB Page today at 1pm;

Zoom Panel discussion on - Myanmar in UN, the future of multilateralism and the UN we need

https://www.facebook.com/UNinMyanmar/videos/528510504646735/