Mizzima awarded global JTI certificate for reliable news on Myanmar

-
Image
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 ...
Post a Comment

Riverside development project envisioned for Mandalay

-
Friday, 24 August 2012 13:12 Mizzima News

A new “satellite town” outside Mandalay, Burma’s second largest city in the north, has been proposed by a group of investors, local media reported this week.

Downtown Mandalay Photo: sluj78 / flickr

Project organizers said the development would feature waterfront housing, a hotel zone, a retail area, riverside recreation areas, an industrial zone, warehouse areas, a trading centre and education facilities.

The project, which is looking for financial backers, would be built on a 22,000-acre (8,910 hectares) section of land by a public company headed by Khin Maung Aye, the president of the Cooperative Bank (CB).

So far, the public company has seen 3,000 prospective shareholders join the project, company officials said.

The proposed project, located in the Tada Oo Township, would be 8.8 kilometers from the Mandalay International Airport.

Officials said support is being sought from local landowners. Land prices in the proposed area have increased rapidly since news of the proposed project spread.

In Tada Oo, land prices are ranging from 3.5 million to 30 million kyat (US$ 4,022 to $34,482) per acre, according to reports.

The “New City Project” is near the ancient city of Inwa, about 16 kilometres (10 miles) south of Mandalay.

The government has yet to approve the project, and officials warned that progress is not certain because of high land prices.

Khin Maung Aye met members of Mandalay’s business community in June to pitch the development, which the company said could take 10 years to complete.

If the project gets permission from the government, he said CB Bank would also be an investor in the project.

With an area covering 113 square-kilometers, Mandalay has become the country's economic and cultural hub in the north. The area has attracted a large number of Chinese businesspeople in the past decade.

Most of Burma’s external trade to China and India goes through Mandalay. The city, located 716 kilometres north of Rangoon, is located on the east bank of the Ayeyawaddy River, with a population of nearly 1 million people.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

World's longest internet shutdown ends in parts of Myanmar

-
Image
Rakhine people travel by motorcycle in Sittwe, Rakhine State, Western Myanmar, 02 February 2021. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA By AFP The world's longest internet shutdown -- affecting more than a million people for 19 months in one of Myanmar's ethnic conflict zones -- has come to an end, according to a mobile operator based in the region. The internet in parts of Myanmar's troubled northern states of Rakhine and Chin was suspended in June 2019 following "emergency" orders issued by the telecoms department under Aung San Suu Kyi's civilian government. Following Monday's military coup, mobile operator Telenor Group confirmed it had reinstated full services in eight townships in Rakhine and Chin states on Wednesday. "Telenor Group and Telenor Myanmar have been advocating for the restoration of services and emphasised that freedom of expression through access to telecoms services should be maintained for humanitarian purposes," the company said in a stateme...
Read more

First ministerial meeting held

-
Image
Mizzima Myanmar held the first meeting among newly appointed ministers after a recent major cabinet reshuffle by the military in capital city of Nay Pyi Taw on Tuesday morning, according to a release from the Military True News Information Team Xinhua reported. The Commander-in-Chief of Defence Services Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, acting President U Myint Swe and nine newly appointed union ministers were present at the meeting held at the Presidential Palace, the release said. Min Aung Hlaing unveiled plans to include reopening religious buildings and pagodas, resuming domestic travel and hotel businesses as well as industries in line with COVID-19 rules and regulations, and revitalizing the country's economy.
Read more

Indonesia detains British woman on terror suspect list

-
Image
File photo of Indonesian police personnel standing guard. (Photo: AFP) AFP Indonesia has detained a British woman named on a list of global terror suspects and plans to deport her for visa violations, authorities told AFP Tuesday. Tazneen Miriam Sailar -- a Manchester-born convert to Islam married to an Indonesian jihadist who was killed in Syria -- is not charged with terror offences. But she and her late husband are on an Indonesian police list of suspected extremists that includes several foreigners notorious in the West. Sailar, 47, and her 10-year-old Indonesia-born son, were being held in Jakarta after being picked up last year without documents allowing her to remain in the Southeast Asian nation, her lawyer Farid Ghozali said. "She was put (in detention) while awaiting her return, which will be facilitated by the British embassy," Indonesian immigration directorate spokesman Ahmad Nursaleh told AFP. The embassy declined to comment, and it was unclear when...
Read more