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, Thein Sein in Bangkok next week

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Thursday, 24 May 2012 13:26 Mizzima News

(Mizzima) – Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein will both attend the World Economic Forum on Asia in Bangkok starting Wednesday. It will mark Suu Kyi first trip outside Burma in 24 years.

Thein Sein is expected to attend the forum, said a spokesperson for the National League for Democracy. There has been no confirmation by the government that Thein Sein would attend.

The forum is expected to focus on issues affecting the 10-member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean), which together form an important strategic and economic region with a combined population of over 600 million people, a nominal GDP exceeding US$ 1.8 trillion, and a growth rate for the region expected to exceed 5 percent in 2012 despite ongoing economic turmoil in the Eurozone and the United States, according to the event’s website.

Aung San Suu Kyi and President Thein Sein after a meeting in Naypyitaw. In the background is a picture of Suu Kyi's father, Aung San, who is widely admired as the father of the country. Photo: AFP

The Asean Economic Blueprint has established concrete targets to form a single market and production base by 2015.

To achieve this stronger linkages across Southeast Asia are needed to ensure a competitive and connected region, as well as to reinforce ongoing integration efforts.

The region’s connectivity will see a major acceleration in linking the region’s institutional and physical infrastructure, presenting unparalleled opportunities for investment and growth in areas such as the transportation network, energy, mobile health, tourism, financial services and agriculture, said the website.

At the same time, corporate and government decision-makers must ensure that the necessary risk response mechanisms are well developed to manage such issues as natural disasters, widening income inequality and resource scarcity.

As demonstrated by heavy flooding across the region last year, vulnerability to climate change has led to significant disruptions to the region’s production and supply chains and exacerbated socio-economic disparities.
Among the issues expected to be discussed are:

    •    How can the high economic growth economies of ASEAN help to rebalance both the global and the regional overall economic outlook?
    •    How will governments and institutions develop the financial policies to manage inflation, capital outflows, commodity price volatility and balanced growth towards greater domestic and regional demand?
    •    How will the region leverage its demographic dividend and technology base to develop the models to increase growth through innovation, improve talent mobility, entrepreneurship and skill building?

– For more information, go to http://www.weforum.org/events/world-economic-forum-east-asia-2012

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