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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Bay of Bengal generates fresh storm, bureaus say

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Thursday, 14 October 2010 21:09 Myo Thein

Rangoon (Mizzima) – A low pressure system over the Bay of Bengal was listed at 11:30 a.m. today as intensifying into a depression and was predicted to head northwest, according to the Burmese weather bureau. Another Burma-based weather monitor warned however that the storm could turn to the northeast.

The India Meteorological Department however had already listed it as a depression late on Wednesday.

Burma’s Meteorology and Hydrology Department reported at 1 p.m. today that the depression was centred around 350 miles (560 kilometres) southeast of Gopalpur-on-Sea in India. It categorised the depression as yellow level.

The low-pressure system that had been classified as Watch (1) by the Myanmar Climate Change Watch (MCCW) – headed by former weather bureau chief Dr. Tun Lwin – since Tuesday had intensified into a depression today, the MCCW said.

The meteorology department issued a storm warning that said the depression was unlikely to cross into Burma but could squalls and rough seas in Burmese waters.

The MCCW had also issued a warning also on its website. It said “the depression is forecast to move initially in a northwest direction. But such depressions found in the late monsoon season usually turn back to the northeast so that caution should be exercised and precautionary measures taken. Forty-six per cent of storms that hit Burma were usually found in the late monsoon season so that Burma should be cautious over danger and destruction of storms”.

Its website also said the number of storms that hit Burma late in the monsoon was just eight per cent of total storms that developed over the Bay of Bengal so that it the outlook was too serious.

The depression over Bay of Bengal was the second in October for that body of water and the third for the year, the MCCW said.

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