Foreign Correspondents Club of Myanmar

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
🎂🎊🎉🎈🎁

Statement on charges against journalists

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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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။

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.

Some private hospitals in Myanmar to help government hospitals overloaded with COVID-19 cases | Video 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...

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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.

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.

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