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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Suu Kyi has heart tests in hospital

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Monday, 12 April 2010 19:33 Myint Maung

New Delhi (Mizzima) - Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi had a suspected heart check-up at Rangoon General Hospital (RGH) on Sunday evening, National League for Democracy (NLD) party leaders have said.
Party spokesman Nyan Win told Mizzima that details were sketchy. “We don’t know yet in detail. We know only that she underwent a medical check-up and examination by doctors and then she went back home. We have just learned about it”, he said.

But, party Central Executive Committee (CEC) member Win Tin had more information after speaking to her family physician. “We heard from Dr. Tin Myo Win that her health condition was good but we heard again on Sunday night that she was taken to RGH and was checked with cardiac medical equipment for about 45 minutes. If it was for an ECG test, it could have been done at her home,” he said.

The clinical examinations included an ECG test at RGH on Sunday night from 9.15pm to 9.30pm. She then arrived back at home at 9.45pm, sources said.

Dr. Tin Myo Win had taken cardiac monitoring equipment to her home and checked her heart on April 8, in what was her second check-up for the month. Aung San Suu Kyi receives a routine check-up at her home on the first Thursday of every month and additional checks when necessary.

She told her lawyers when they visited her home to discuss her legal cases that she was being administered medicine for low blood pressure and gastric disease. She had also suffered from leg cramps last May.

Dr. Tin Myo Win was unavailable for further comment when contacted by phone on Monday.

The Nobel Peace laureate was charged last May with breach of her house arrest terms over US citizen John Yettaw’s uninvited visit to her crumbling villa after he swam across Inya Lake in Rangoon. A trial court sentenced her to three-years jail last August over the matter. But junta leader Senior General Than Shwe commuted her sentence to 18 months and ordered that it be served under house arrest.

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