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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Retired ambassador Hla Myint likely to replace Rangoon Mayor

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Wednesday, 09 March 2011 19:41 Mizzima News

Rangoon (Mizzima) – Hla Myint, a former military officer and retired ambassador, is likely to replace current Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin, according to municipal sources.

Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin bows as the old national
flag of Burma is taken down during a ceremony at City
Hall on October 21, 2010. (Photo: Mizzima)
Hla Myint, 62, was nominated in the list of cabinet ministers by Myint Swe, the chief minister of the Rangoon Regional Assembly.

Hla Myint was a student in the Defense Services Academy batch No. (13) from 1967 to 1971. In 1971, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and rose to the rank of brigadier general.

In 2002, he was transferred to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 2002 to 2005, he was ambassador to Argentina and Brazil, and served as ambassador to Japan from 2005-2010.

Current Rangoon Mayor Aung Thein Lin is also an MP in the junta-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) for the South Okkalapa Constituency, a municipal official noted.

‘He comes to the municipal office every Friday. I hear that he has to attend Parliament on the other days’, said the official.

In early March, rumours circulated in Rangoon that Aung Thein Lin had been arrested because senior leaders were angry over financial issues.

Sources said some members of the  Rangoon City Development Committee are concerned that city departments among the 20 municipal departments could be dissolved if a new mayor is named.

A senior municipal official said that the application process to buy plots of land and shops has been suspended because of the potential reshuffle.

Aung Thein Lin, 59, who is known as a hard-liner, was named Rangoon Mayor in  2003. He was also a leader of the Union Solidarity and Development Association, which was the precursor of the USDP.

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