{"id":309117,"date":"2017-09-06T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3443-indo-myanmar-mou-inked-to-promote-journalism"},"modified":"2017-09-06T14:30:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-06T18:30:00","slug":"indo-myanmar-mou-inked-to-promote-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2017\/09\/06\/indo-myanmar-mou-inked-to-promote-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Indo-Myanmar MoU inked to promote journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"K2FeedIntroText\">\n<p>Our Bureau<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Sept 6<\/p>\n<p>In a major breakthrough, Press Councils of India and Myanmar today signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of media, during the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi\u2019s first official visit to Nay Pyi Taw today.<\/p>\n<p>This was informed by C.K Nayak, member Press Council of India from Nay Pyi Taw, this evening over telephone to N. Tombi Raj, advisor, All Manipur Working Journalists\u2019 Union (AMWJU).<\/p>\n<p>The first such MOU between the two neighbours assumes significance for the Northeastern region of the country. Myanmar is one of India\u2019s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of Northeast states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU was signed by justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, chairman, Press Council of India and first vice-chairman of Myanmar Press Council, U Aung Hla Tun in the presence of\u00a0\u00a0 Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, President of Myanmar U Htin Kyaw and State counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the presidential palace in Nay Pyi Taw.<\/p>\n<p>As per the MOU, the two countries will promote peace journalism and exchange information, experience and knowledge pertaining to a non-violent, peaceful journalism, coverage towards restraint in matters that are likely to escalate conflict and act as a catalyst in deescalating conflict and providing peaceful world order.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister in the joint statement later hoped that this MOU will go a long way for more and frequent interaction between the two press councils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3443-indo-myanmar-mou-inked-to-promote-journalism\">http:\/\/www.ifp.co.in\/item\/3443-indo-myanmar-mou-inked-to-promote-journalism<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Our Bureau<\/p>\n<p>IMPHAL | Sept 6<\/p>\n<p>In a major breakthrough, Press Councils of India and Myanmar today signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in the field of media, during the Prime Minister, Narendra Modi&rsquo;s first official visit to Nay Pyi Taw today.<\/p>\n<p>This was informed by C.K Nayak, member Press Council of India from Nay Pyi Taw, this evening over telephone to N. Tombi Raj, advisor, All Manipur Working Journalists&rsquo; Union (AMWJU).<\/p>\n<p>The first such MOU between the two neighbours assumes significance for the Northeastern region of the country. Myanmar is one of India&rsquo;s strategic neighbours and shares a 1,640-km-long border with a number of Northeast states including militancy-hit Nagaland and Manipur.<\/p>\n<p>The MOU was signed by justice Chandramauli Kumar Prasad, chairman, Press Council of India and first vice-chairman of Myanmar Press Council, U Aung Hla Tun in the presence of&nbsp;&nbsp; Narendra Modi, Prime Minister of India, President of Myanmar U Htin Kyaw and State counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the presidential palace in Nay Pyi Taw.<\/p>\n<p>As per the MOU, the two countries will promote peace journalism and exchange information, experience and knowledge pertaining to a non-violent, peaceful journalism, coverage towards restraint in matters that are likely to escalate conflict and act as a catalyst in deescalating conflict and providing peaceful world order.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister in the joint statement later hoped that this MOU will go a long way for more and frequent interaction between the two press councils.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15434,4],"tags":[2733,15447],"class_list":["post-309117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ifp","category-news","tag-ifp","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309117"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309118,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309117\/revisions\/309118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}