March 11, 2020
Deputy Minister for Information U Aung Hla Tun delivered a speech at the opening ceremony of capacity-building training course (3/2020) conducted by the Information and Public Relations Department at its office in Nay Pyi Taw yesterday morning.
In his opening remark, the Deputy Minister explained the three-week training course on news writing, mobile journalism, financial rules and accounting, official letter writing, media and information literacy, media laws and library knowledge.
He also highlighted importance of media and information literacy, threats of fake news, false news and rumours spreading online to instigate public fears, mistrust and hates among the public, and abstaining from sharing unethical posts and writing comments on them.
The Deputy Minister also advised the trainees to disseminate knowledge from the course to the colleagues at the respective offices.
A total of 35 deputy staff officer trainees from Regions and State are attending the course which will end on 3 April.—MNA(Translated by Aung Khin)
