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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New Age People’s Party denies financial support from USDA

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Sunday, 11 April 2010 18:46 Min Thet

Rangoon (Mizzima) - The New Age People’s Party leaders, keen on contesting the election, have denied taking financial support from the Union Solidarity and Development Association (USDA).
The USDA and New Age People’s Party have a good rapport. Both cooperate with the Chairman of the Rangoon City Development Committee Brigadier General Aung Thein Lin to provide social service to people. The rumour emanated because of this. The New Age People’s Party has flatly denied it.

“We are just cooperating in the sphere of social work and have never accepted any kind of financial support from them,” a Central Committee member of New Age People’s Party, Aung Myint said. He added that they will raise party funds from authorized businesses, including the auction business.

“Our party funds come from membership fees. Moreover, we ask for donations from private citizens,” the chairman of New Age People’s Party, Htun Aung Kyaw said.

Though the leaders of the party denied the rumour, many Rangoon citizens believe that they are being supported by the Rangoon City Mayor.

The Mayor is in-charge of the USDA Rangoon Division and he has been cooperating with the leaders of the New Age People’s Party in carrying out social services such as opening free schools and clinics, and building roads prior to the Referendum on the Constitution in May 2008, members of the USDA Rangoon Division said.

An employee of the Rangoon City Development Committee said, “I know them. They joined the Mayor and USDA. I read the news in the state-run newspaper that New Age People’s Party has registered as a political party and I also noticed that the members of the party are from the team that cooperated with the USDA.”

The party is derived from the new age political economics students’ group formed in October 1980. It registered under the name “New Age People’s Party” with the Election Commission on April 6.

The USDA was formed on 15 September 1993 to provide social services with its patron being junta supremo Senior General Than Shwe.

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