Volume 34 T
Quarter 2, 2015
Publisher Dr Javad Mottaghi
javad@abu.org.my
he 99th Administrative Council held last May in Xi’an, China reviewed all the activities of the Union and was highly supportive of the proposed new initiatives. We report in this edition on the progress achieved in increasing professional services to ABU members and in expanding our services to members in the Pacific and Central Asia.
“The Creative Power of Radio” was the theme of 2015 ABU RadioAsia Conference recently held in Yangon, Myanmar. This second edition of ABU News for the year presents some highlights of this conference where topics ranging from Content to Digital Radio were discussed. Once again, the ABU Radio Song Festival held every year at the same time as the conference was a great success.
We are also just three months closer to ABU General Assembly scheduled to take place from 24 to 31 October, 2015 in Istanbul, Turkey. The theme chosen this year is: “Serving Audiences – Empowering The Asia-Pacific”. Final preparations are underway and over 700 members, guests, speakers and exhibitors are expected to be present in the historic Turkish capital for this Assembly and its Associated Meetings. The next edition of ABU News will feature a full account of what is planned in Istanbul, together with the official programme of events for the General Assembly and related workshops.
As usual, ABU has been very active during the last three months. China was the venue for the ABU Administrative Council in Xi’an and the ABU Sports Group Conference and will host the RadioAsia Conference and Radio Song Festival in 2016. The Union strengthened its relations and partnerships with several countries and organisations like Japan, Fiji, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Nepal, Organisation of Islamic Cooperation, Arabs States Broadcasting Union and Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development.
ABU Members can also look forward to some interesting forthcoming events like the 2015 Tashkent Forum in July in Uzbekistan or Robocon in Indonesia and Pacific Media Partnership Conference in Samoa, in August. Some ABU members will also participate actively in the Public Broadcasting Institute (PBI) scheduled for next September in Germany.
New members are continuously joining bringing the total number of members to 278. These come from 68 different countries. Thus, ABU remains the biggest broadcasting organisation in the world.
Last but not least, ABU pays tribute in this edition to the Nepalese people following the devastating earthquake, which hit the country last April, including an exclusive report on how Kantipur TV journalists worked during and after the earthquake. The Union presents also its condolence to IRIB–Iran and the family of a famous Radio Presenter, Mehran Dousti, following his sudden demise last June in Tehran.
4 ABU News
Editor in Chief Nanda Armoogum
nanda@abu.org.my
Multimedia Designer Nadzim Zainal
nadzim@abu.org.my
Contributors Javad Mottaghi Amal Punchihewa Beniko Tatsuhiro Chae Il Cai Yanjiang Natalia Ilieva Premila Manvi Vijay Sadhu Hanizah Hamza Kesang Tan Hock Guan Nam Thanh Nguyen Toshiyuki Sato Megumi Iizuka Sakura Ono Neil Curry Yan Bo Mamak Derakhshan Prateebha Tuladhar
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