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News Archive 2006
News articles which have appeared on our site during 2006 are archived below. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific’s Children of Tsunami regional media project was a bold and innovative effort to cover one of the biggest stories in recent years. It allowed TV journalists and film-makers in Tsunami affected countries to go beyond news headlines and capture many nuances that are often left out of typical media coverage of disasters. |
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| Indonesian television journalist Dendy Montgomery saw 10-metre tall waves kill people in his homeland in Aceh province two years ago. He now feels that waves of forgetfulness are compounding the tragedy. |
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| Media Lessons, Two Years after the Asian Tsunami
Having played key roles when the Asian tsunami struck on 26 December 2004 |
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| Clean Air more important than rice in Asia
Rice is very important to Asians, but clean air has now become even more important, the Indonesian State Minister of Environment said. |
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| Clean Air stories need a human face
Scientific data, technical analysis and statistics alone cannot engage the public on air pollution and its mitigation. To be effective, media coverage of air quality issues needs to include the human dimension and human interest. |
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| Rising Asia chokes, but continues its quest for cleaner air
Air quality has improved in some Asian cities, but air pollution remains a threat to health and quality of life in others, says a major new air quality report launched this week |
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| Two years after the devastating Tsunami, are Asian countries managing their coastal areas and resources more rationally and scientifically? |
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| TVEAP Director calls for more ethical newsgathering for television
The Director of TVE Asia Pacific has called for more ethnical conduct by television journalists and networks in news gathering in the developing world. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific’s latest educational TV series, The Greenbelt Reports, has just been released for broadcast, educational and civil society use worldwide. |
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| The first truly global series of video films produced by TVE Asia Pacific has just been released. |
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| TVEAP film screened at global conference on the ozone layer
A regional video film on protecting the ozone layer, recently completed by TVE Asia Pacific, has been screened during a major inter-governmental conference on the subject held in New Delhi, India. |
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| Green Coast supports The Greenbelt Reports
The international Green Coast project has come forward to support TVE Asia Pacific |
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| Advancing Sands: New films offer a closer look at desertification and migration
To mark the United Nations Year of Desertification 2006, a package of new TV programmes are being lined up by TVE Asia Pacific |
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| TVE Asia Pacific’s latest TV series was previewed by an international group of environmental journalists and communicators gathered in Rome, on 7 October 2006. |
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| Media for Cleaner Air in Asia: Journalists invited to apply for BAQ 2006 media scholarships
A major new initiative was announced today for engaging the Asian media professionals to cover the region |
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| New TVEAP video looks at remaining challenges in saving the ozone layer
A new regional video film, just completed by TVE Asia Pacific, looks at the many remaining challenges in saving the ozone layer that protects life on earth from excessive radiation from the Sun. |
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| UN celebrates the rising power of citizen action worldwide
Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) continue to be essential allies of the United Nations, not only in mobilizing public opinion, but also in the process of policy formulation and in making them work on the ground; at the country and community levels, where it counts. |
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| Make poverty a copyright free zone, TVEAP Director appeals to broadcasters and film-makers
The Director of TVE Asia Pacific has called upon the world |
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| Doctors on the Front Line offers new insights into humanitarian relief
A new TV series, recently acquired by TVE Asia Pacific for regional distribution and promotion, offers new insights into humanitarian relief in |
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| Major FOSS documentary now available from TVEAP
TVE Asia Pacific has recently acquired the distribution rights to a major global documentary film on free and open source software (FOSS). |
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| TVE Asia Pacific joins Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development
TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP), now a regional leader in using audio-visual media for communicating development, has joined the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, AIBD. |
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| MDG Asia Pacific film showcased at Asia Media Summit 2006
A 10 minute short video, produced by TVE Asia Pacific on the Asia Pacific region |
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| Discerning ICT hype from hope: challenge for broadcasters
How do we discern the hype from hope when covering information and communication technologies, or ICTs? Where are the real stories of ICTs |
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| Television and radio broadcasters can help put a ‘human face’ to international commitments to reduce poverty and human suffering worldwide, a senior UN official said. |
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| Digits4Change to be launched at Asia Media Summit 2006
A new TV documentary series that looks at how information and communications technologies (ICTs) are changing life and livelihoods in Asia Pacific will be launched at Asia Media Summit 2006. |
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| Award-winning documentaries on development to be distributed across Asia Pacific
Some of the world’s best documentary films on development will become available in the Asia Pacific region through a new partnership that TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) has recently finalised. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific to co-sponsor Asia Media Summit 2006
TVE Asia Pacific has joined a galaxy of international and regional organisations and companies as a co-sponsor of Asia Media Summit 2006. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific is a lead partner in the ‘Last Mile Hazard Information Dissemination Project’, together with the Sri Lanka’s largest development organisation Sarvodaya, and leading regional ICT research group LIRNEasia, and Sri Lanka’s largest telecommunications company, Dialog Telekom. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific rebrands itself for second decade
TVE Asia Pacific has decided to realign and rebrand itself as it enters the second decade of operations in 2006. As part of this process, a new logo has just been unveiled. It will be phased in over the next few weeks. |
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