Myanmar's exiled media outlets keep reporting from next door

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An independent Myanmar media outlet reports from a studio in Thailand. (Photo by Ken Kobayashi)

YUICHI NITTA, Nikkei staff writer

MAE SOT, Thailand -- Toe Zaw Latt, a senior journalist with Mizzima, an independent Myanmar media outlet, has been based in Thailand since September last year, conducting training programs for journalists in a "liberated area" in the mountains on the Myanmar-Thailand border.

"We receive the journalists from all over the country, and we train them in person. They stay in one location, and then they will go back and use their knowledge. We [provide] training for basic journalism, mobile journalism, fact-checking and so on," Toe Zaw Latt said.

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