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Global News Forum to be held every year as from 2017


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BU is exploring the possibility to hold the Global News Forum (GNF) every year instead of every two years. The idea was discussed in May at ABU


Headquarters in Kuala Lumpur during a meeting chaired by the Secretary-General, Dr Javad Mottaghi in the presence of Mr Joao Francisco Pinto, ABU News Group Chair, Mr Chae II, News Director and Mr Tan Hock Guan, Senior Editor.


The massive 7.8 magnitude earthquake struck just before noon with the epicentre near Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.


The first-ever ABU GNF which is a high-level summit for news media leaders was held in September 2013 in Seoul on the theme ‘Breaking the News in the Media 3.0 Era’ and hosted by the Korean Broadcasting System (KBS). NHK-Japan hosted the second edition this year in March in Sendai, Japan with the theme of “Informing People, Saving Lives: Broadcasting During Disasters”. The next GNF is scheduled to be held in Singapore in 2017.


Dr Mottaghi said that as from 2017, the GNF could be held every year so as to create more awareness of ABU news activities in the region and that it is important for the forum to have a trademark otherwise it could be forgotten.


Other decisions and ideas came out of this meeting. Kazakhstan (Khabar Agency and Kazmedia) have been invited to join the Asiavision (AVN) membership. More training will be given to AVN members and non AVN members, and ABC Australia will host the News Group Meeting next year.


Aftershocks and tremors were also felt across the eastern and northern parts of India. The disaster claimed around 8,000 lives in Nepal.


IRIB took the March award for its coverage of the Iraqi army intensifying its fight against the Takfiri terrorists in Tikrit, capital of Iraq’s Salahuddin province.


The Iraqi army and popular forces were continuing their operations to take back control of Tikrit on three fronts.


Thousands of government troops, Shiite and Sunni popular forces have


liberated several strategic villages located between Samarra and Tikrit after breaking ISIL’s fortified defensive positions.


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