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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Parliament opens session on Thursday

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Friday, 19 October 2012 13:51 Mizzima News

Burma’s two houses of Parliament opened their 5th session on Thursday. Lower House Speaker Shwe Mann told lawmakers that the country must push ahead on democratic reforms and enforce the rule of law.

Military representatives at the opening parliament session in Naypyitaw on Thursday, October 18, 2012. Photo: Myat Kyaw Thu / Mizzima

According to parliament sources, topics to be discussed in Thursday's session included amending the Auditor-General's Law, withdrawal of an old Myanmar Five Star Shipping Corporation Law, withdrawal of a political law enacted during the period of the National Convention and withdrawal of a land confiscation law in connection with mineral exploitation.

Important bills to be approved in the next session include the Foreign Investment Law and a new media law.

During the last session, which ended on Sept. 7, the parliament passed laws including the Foreign Exchange Management Law and Social Security Law.

In other business, it approved the nomination of Nyan Tun as new vice president, and the government's appointment of 11 new persons to take up ministerial posts and one new auditor-general following a major cabinet reshuffle from Aug. 27 to Sept. 7, in which nine ministers were first reassigned, two ministers and the Auditor-General resigned, 15 former ministers remained in posts without change, one deputy minister was shifted and 19 new deputy ministers were appointed.

The reshuffle of the cabinet was added four ministries to the President's Office to become six such ministries from No. 1 to No. 6 and the merger of two Ministries of Electric Power No. 1 and No. 2 to a single ministry and abolishment of the Ministry of Industrial Development.

Also, opposition leader and parliamentarian Aung San Suu Kyi was named chairperson of a 15-member Committee for Rule of Law and Tranquility of the Lower House on Aug. 7.

The former nine-member Myanmar Constitutional Tribunal, led Thein Soe, resigned after the parliament passed an impeachment with a majority vote against the constitutional tribunal for breaching the provisions of the constitution and the failure to discharge the vested duties under law.

The two houses' separate sessions will be followed by a joint union parliament opening session on Monday.

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