Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

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Mizzima Mizzima, one of Myanmar ’s most prominent news outlets and a press freedom advocate, obtained the Journalism Trust Initiative ( JTI ) certification from global audit firm Bureau Veritas , JTI says in a press statement 5 January.  Operating in clandestine mode within Myanmar and supported by an exiled team, Mizzima strives to fulfil its role as reliable source of news and information for the Myanmar public. “Your Journalism Trust Initiative certification affirms what audiences already know: that principled, transparent journalism matters. Congratulations on this achievement and on your continued contribution to informing citizens about Myanmar,” says Benjamin Sabbah , director of Journalism Trust Initiative “Myanmar’s ongoing conflict has created an intensely contested media landscape, where mis- and disinformation are increasingly deployed to reinforce state propaganda and the prevailing “official” narrative. Although Mizzima is already regarded as one of the most trusted ...
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Repair work on Suu Kyi’s house halted

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Phanida

December 24, 2009

Chiang Mai (Mizzima) - Detained opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been ordered to stop repair works of her lakeside house, after her elder brother filed a complaint, her lawyer Nyan Win said.

The Rangoon civic body on Wednesday told Nyan Win to stop all repair works at Suu Kyi’s house, as her elder brother Aung San Oo’s lawyer Han Toe had filed a complaint against the renovation and repairs.

“The notice came this morning. The municipality said Aung San Oo’s lawyer Han Toe had filed a complaint. The notice was just one sentence saying ‘to stop repairing of the house while it is under investigation’,” Nyan Win said.

The detained pro-democracy leader, after a long procedure of seeking permission, was allowed by the civic body to repair her colonial-era house and to finish all repair works before the end of February 2010.

A partition between the balcony and the living room in the upper storey of the house is being raised.

Aung San Oo, the eldest among three children of Burma’s independence architect General Aung San, is currently living in United States and in 2000 had filed a lawsuit in the Rangoon High court demanding half of his father’s house, where his sister Suu Kyi had been kept under solitary confinement for most of 14 of the past 20 years.

On December 15, Soe Win Naing, who claims to be Aung San Oo’s representative, had verbally complained against the house repair in the municipal office.

Lawyers of the Burmese Nobel Peace Laureate Suu Kyi said they will submit a petition in the municipal office on Thursday over the complaint against the repair work.

The Burmese democracy icon’s legal team is also scheduled to visit her at her lakeside house on Thursday to discuss the appeal against her 18 months suspended sentence, handed down by a district court in August.

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