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News Archive 2008
News articles which have appeared on our site during 2008 are archived below. |
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| How can research institutes and advocacy groups use the mainstream media effectively to communicate their findings or analyses? |
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| TVE Asia Pacific congratulates Indian film-maker Moji Riba, who has just been selected as an Associate Laureate of Rolex Awards for Enterprise. |
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| Children are often the biggest casualties in disasters such as mudslides and hurricanes - and climate change impacts now threaten to imperil millions of children living on the edge of survival in the developing world. |
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| Facts, figures and rational analysis are necessary, but insufficient, in persuading individuals and communities to adopt more climate friendly lifestyles, practices and technologies. |
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| A group of Asia Pacific TV producers and film-makers have called for climate change to be recognised as a 'copyright free zone'. |
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| Six years after it was made, TVE Asia Pacific's path-breaking documentary film Voices from the Waves is to be screened at a regional meeting of film-makers, journalists and civil society groups in Tokyo in early October. |
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| The series, currently being filmed on location in six countries across South and Southeast Asia, will offer glimpses of how grassroots communities, citizen groups and local media are quietly doing their bit to build better societies and a healthier planet. |
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| Sharply rising food prices have caused deep concerns around the world this year. Several developing countries that are hardest hit have seen food riots. |
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| It threatens the lives of more young women than cancer, malaria or war. It affects one in three women worldwide and leaves them mentally scarred for life. It is usually inflicted by a family member. |
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| Pesticide Action Network Asia and the Pacific (PAN AP), TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) and
Public Media Agency (PMA) of Malaysia announce the launch of the Asia Pacific Rice Film Award 2008-2009.
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| If current development trends continue, what would life in Sri Lanka be like by 2048 – when the country marks 100 years of independence? |
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| The film, chronicling a day in the life of young Lakshani Fernando, is titled 'I am a Child of the Sea'. It forms part of a new Asian and African TV series called 'I am…', where children from different countries and cultures talk about their lives.
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With the death of Sir Arthur C Clarke, TVE Asia Pacific has lost a long-standing friend and supporter.
TVEAP joins millions of his fans worldwide in saluting the celebrated author and techno-visionary. We extend our sincere condolences to his family. |
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| TVEAP joins quest for higher quality media coverage on HIV/AIDS
TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) is working with the Asia Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) to create minimum quality standards for media content generation on HIV/AIDS. |
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| TVE Asia Pacific’s documentary film on the state of Asia’s coastal ecosystems and community efforts to conserve them was screened as one of the top 12 films at the recently concluded 16th Earth Vision Global Environmental Film Festival in Tokyo, Japan. |
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| Communicating Disasters launched at Sri Lanka Press Institute
TVE Asia Pacific's latest publication, Communicating Disasters: An Asia Pacific Resource Book, had its Sri Lankan launch on 19 February 2008 in Colombo. |
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| TVEAP helps promote science broadcasting in the Asia Pacific
TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) is collaborating with regional media and academic partners in promoting public communication of science through broadcasting. |
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| Armed by Nature selected for Earth Vision Film Festival in Tokyo
Improved communications help advance human progress but technologies alone cannot achieve understanding and harmony between people and nations, says Sir Arthur C Clarke. |
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