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“Asian Voices” is a monthly radio magazine programme produced by the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) from Singapore. It brings you news, views and interviews on Asian media and communication issues from an Asian perspective. This first issue of “Asian Voices” includes the following segments:

a)	Vox Pops on whether radio is a dying art
b)	Mike Pedero, chief broadcaster of the National Broadcasting Corporation in the Philippines reflects on this point, as well as Haan Tran, head of Radio Australia.
c)	Kudsia Kahar, general manager of AMP Radio Malaysia talks about the threat to radio coming from politicians rather than new technology.
d)	Jace Au, head of public affairs at Radio Television Hong Kong talks to Asian Voices’s Tharuka Prematileka about how radio could respond to the digital age.
e)	Evelyn Agato station manager of Radyo Pilipinas overseas services explains how her radio station links overseas Filipino workers with their kith and kin back home.
f)	Prateek Dubey and Naren Katara, two MBA students from the Mudra Institute of Communications in India explain how their students’ community radio station links with the adjoining villages.
g)	Asia Voices’s Kalinga Seneviratne joins the ‘eTuk Tuk’ team at Kothmale Community Radio in Sri Lanka on a live broadcast from a Tamil tea estate community in the hills.

This programme is produced and presented by Dr Kalinga Seneviratne, Head of Research at AMIC and a former radio broadcaster. Production assistance by Tharuka Prematileka, Research Assistant at AMIC. This programme could be downloaded and broadcast in full or in segments, free of charge, by any non-profit public or community radio broadcaster in Asia and around the world. If you do broadcast please let us know time and date of broadcast, just for our records.

We also welcome contributions from Asian radio stations and radio producers. At the moment the programme is produced entirely on a voluntary basis, but, we may commission special features for a fee in the future. For more information, feedback and contributions, please contact Kalinga Seneviratne – email: kalinga@amic.org.sg Ph: 65 – 6792 7570.


1	Asian Voices - Issue 1


1	Asian Voices - Issue 1 July 2008 Transcript