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News Archive 2005
News articles which have appeared on our site during 2005 are archived below. |
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| Disasters used to be local events that concerned only those directly affected. But in this era of trans-boundary satellite television, instantaneous telecommunications and the Internet, that has completely changed. |
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| Environmental film-makers call for ethical framework
Film makers and television journalists covering environmental issues and wildlife should evolve their own code of ethics, said participants at a wide ranging discussion involving film makers, television journalists, media researchers and environmental activists in New Delhi, India. |
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| Can information and communications technologies (ICTs) help reduce poverty, create jobs, generate income and add value to livelihoods? |
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| Connecting People: New video on ICTs launched at World Summit
A new half-hour documentary on how telephones, computers and Internet are enriching lives and livelihoods across Asia was launched at the recently concluded UN World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunis, Tunisia. |
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| Building information societies in Asia: Report highlights gaps and challenges
Countries of the Asia Pacific region were approaching the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) with different economic interests that threaten to fragment, rather than unite, the region. |
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| TVEAP distributes Fragile Lives: Immunization at Risk
A powerful global documentary, recently acquired by TVE Asia Pacific for regional distribution, shows how at least 2 million children die every year from diseases that that vaccination could easily prevent. |
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| MDG: Mind the Development Gap, Asia Pacific told
Citizens of the Asia Pacific countries will hold their governments accountable for achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). |
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| TVEAP film opens major MDG meeting in Manila:
A 10 minute video film produced by TVE Asia Pacific opened a major United Nations meeting to review the Asia Pacific region |
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| ‘Treacling Down’, a new documentary film by Sri Lankan film-maker Upali Gamlath, recently won the top prize at the first national festival and competition of short films in Colombo. |
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| Ozzy Ozone goes to World Expo at Aichi:
Among the tens of thousands of people visiting the World Expo in Aichi, Japan, there was an extraordinary person at the end of July. It was a tiny defender who had arrived from space to protect our planet. His name: Ozzy Ozone. |
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| Sombath Somphone wins 2005 Ramon Magsaysay Award:
Sombath Somphone, Founder and Executive Director of Participatory Development Training Centre (PADETC), TVEAP |
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| “You cannot have an environmentally sustainable system in a country where there are disparities between the rich and the poor, where there is unequal development in the sense that development only benefits one set of people and does not benefit the other.” |
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| TVEAP relaunches E-shop, Online video sales take a step forward:
TVE Asia Pacific's new and improved electronic shop was launched on July 1 with a new look and improved facilities. The e-shop will help expand the growing volume of video and DVD sales through the Internet. |
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| Join Children of Tsunami, TVEAP invites partners:
Five girls and three boys -- aged 8 to 16. Living in coastal areas of India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Thailand. Each family hit by the Asian Tsunami 2004. |
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| Children of Tsunami launched at Asia Media Summit:
TVE Asia Pacific announced its new Children of Tsunami regional media project at a high level gathering of Asian and international broadcasters in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, on May 10. |
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| The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) in New Delhi, one of TVE Asia Pacific’s Indian partners, has just been awarded the 2005 Stockholm Water Prize. |
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| Two of TVE Asia Pacific’s Truth Talking documentaries are to be screened at the Third Annual South Asia Human Rights Film and Video Festival in New York from 7 to 9 April 2005. |
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| Asian Tsunami Disaster 2004: TVE Asia Pacific Response
The TVE Asia Pacific team have agreed on six core principles that will form the basis of everything we do in response to the disaster. "Any disaster specific activities that emerge in the coming weeks will be guided by this framework". |
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