30 January
Local and foreign media personnel arrived in Maungtaw via Angumaw by car after they had flown to Sittway from Yangon yesterday morning.
In the afternoon, they met with U Aung Soe, Head of the Office of Maungtaw District General Administration Department, and interviewed about the preparation for accepting returnees.
The media group includes journalists from Frontier Myanmar, Black Night Media, AL Jazeera English, BBC, RFA, MRTV and MITV.
That is 35th batch of media personnel visiting Maungtaw region since December 2016. —Han Lin Naing (MNA)(Translated by Kyaw Zin Tun)
