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	Radio Free Asia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio Free Asia was created by the International Broadcasting Act of 1994 and began its operations in 1996.
		It is a private, non-profit corporation funded by Congress of the United States, and supervised by the Broadcasting Board of Governors.
		RFA also broadcasts in Tibetan, Cantonese, Uyghur, Burmese, Vietnamese, Lao, Khmer (to Cambodia) and Korean (to North Korea).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_Free_Asia (254 words)

	Radio Free Europe - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a radio and communications organization which is funded by the United States Congress.
		In 1975, RFE was merged with a very similar Congress funded anti-communist organization called Radio Liberty (RL, founded in 1951 by the American Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia) and the group name was officially changed to Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL).
		However operations were expanded elsewhere: in 1994 Radio Free Iraq and Radio Farda, a Persian service, were started; in 1997 a service was started in Kosovo; and in 2002 Radio Free Afghanistan was restarted.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Radio_Free_Europe (420 words)

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		Radio Free Asia would assume all obligations, not the U.S. government, and grants would end after September 30, 1999, unless the Presidentþs FY1999 budget submission to Congress recommends a one year extension as authorized in sec.
		RFA's plan asserted that it would be possible to establish a surrogate broadcasting service into Asian countries within the budget set forth by Congress and that it would be broadcasting "as soon as possible".
		RFA headquarters are located in Washington, D.C. It has opened a bureau in Hong Kong and has additional smaller 1 or 2 person offices in other Asian cities.
	countingcalifornia.cdlib.org /crs/ascii/97-52 (2233 words)

	A Babel of Broadcasts - CJR, July/August 1999
		Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty rewrote its job description to justify congressional grants, offering itself as a model of western journalism, an alternative news source, and insurance against resurgent government censorship abroad.
		When the proposal for a Radio Free Asia surfaced in 1991, in reaction to the Chinese assault on Tiananmen Square two years earlier, Voice of America officials suggested that Congress should simply add $10 million to the VOA budget to expand its existing Mandarin service to China.
		Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty, for example, were established in the 1950s to broadcast to Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
	archives.cjr.org /year/99/4/voa.asp (2747 words)

	News From Radio Free Asia=?iso-8859-1?Q?DALAI_LAMA=92S_BROTHER_URGES_CHINA_TO_LIFT_TIBET_CURBS=2C_?= ...
		Second, Tibetans inside and outside Tibet should be allowed to move freely and communicate without restrictions.” China’s late paramount leader, Deng Xiaoping, promised Thondup in 1979 that he would allow Tibetans to travel freely inside and outside Tibet and meet their relatives, he said, but that hasn’t happened.
		Radio Free Asia (RFA) broadcasts news, information, and cultural programming to Asian listeners who lack regular access to full and balanced reporting in their domestic media.
		Through its broadcasts and call-in programs, RFA aims to fill a critical gap in the lives of people across Asia--giving them a voice as well as a means of connecting with the world and with one another.
	techweb.rfa.org /pipermail/rfanews/2002-August/000010.html (776 words)

	Marketplace Special Series: China Calling
		R.F.A. broadcasts in nine Asian languages from studios in Washington, D.C. Radio Free Asia is a name that has a Cold War-sounding, "clobber-the-commies" ring to it, and the operation is entirely funded by the U.S. Congress.
		A radio call-in show is one way to crack that nut, but you can’t hear Marketplace in China beyond the internet.
		Actually, we didn’t commandeer Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts in nine Asian languages from studios in Washington, D.C. It agreed to let Marketplace use its facilities to take calls from China.
	marketplace.publicradio.org /features/chinacalling (371 words)

	ClandestineRadio.com: Intel: Radio Free Asia
		Radio Free Asia (RFA) is an overt surrogate broadcast outlet funded by the U.S. Government and supervised by the bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors.
		Radio Free Asia (RFA), "a private, non-profit corporation" that was created by the U.S. government with the International Broadcasting Act of 1994.
		RFA receives an annual federal grant and is supervised by the "bipartisan Broadcasting Board of Governors, (which is) appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the U.S. Senate."
	www.clandestineradio.com /intel/station.php?id=42&stn=95 (155 words)

	Floor Statements by Congresswoman Pelosi
		This funding is urgently needed for the Asia Pacific Network/Radio Free Asia.
		Radio Free Asia which has been designed to emulate Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's success, is now critical to the efforts of those in Asia struggling against authoritarian leaders.
		In 1991, Radio Free Asia was endorsed by President Bush's Task Force on U.S. Government International Broadcasting.
	www.house.gov /pelosi/radfree.htm (620 words)

	Radio Free Europe - TheBestLinks.com - Radio Liberty, Asia, Afghanistan, Amplitude modulation, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is a radio and communications organization which is funded by the US Congress.
		The CIA funding of RFE was not publicly acknowledged until 1971 at which point the organization was rechartered in Delaware as a non-profit making corporation, oversight was moved to the Board for International Broadcasting, and the budget was moved to open appropriations.
		However operations were expanded elsewhere, in 1994 Radio Free Iraq was started as well as a Persian service and in 1997 in Kosovo.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Radio_Liberty.html (433 words)

	RADIO FREE ASIA ACT OF 1997 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 105th Congress 1st
		H.R. 2232--Radio Free Asia Act of 1997 H.R. 2232 would authorize appropriations of $50 million in 1998 and $32 million in 1999 for broadcasting to China and North Korea and construction of broadcasting facilities.
		Authorization of appropriations for increased funding for Radio Free Asia and Voice of America broadcasting to China Authorizes the appropriation of $30,000,000 for fiscal year 1998 and $22,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 for Radio Free Asia.
		Of the amounts authorized for fiscal years 1998 and 1999 for Radio Free Asia, $700,000 is authorized for each such fiscal year for additional personnel to staff Cantonese language broadcasting.
	www.globalsecurity.org /intell/library/congress/1997_rpt/h105_303.htm (1899 words)

	Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Interview with Radio Free Asia. (President Bill... @ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		We have very important concerns about trying to stabilize the economic situation in Asia, which if it got out of hand could have an enormous destructive impact on hundreds of millions of people in China and a number of other issues that we're working on.
		The very purpose of Radio Free Asia was to beam honest, open debate into Asia so that, as you know, just as we do these interviews, you know, you ask me whatever questions you wish to ask and you press me on matters that you wish to press.
		The truth is we did it for the purpose of advancing freedom of the press and freedom of debate and freedom of speech throughout Asia.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:21000242&refid=ip_encyclopedia_hf (4058 words)

	Montagnards: Radio Free Asia slams Cambodian Arrests (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Radio Free Asia (RFA) on Monday condemned the Cambodian government's arrest of two reporters, including an RFA stringer, and a human rights worker as they tried to reach 17 Montagnard asylum-seekers from Vietnam.
		RFA President Richard Richter called on the Cambodian government to release the men immediately and unconditionally and to drop human-trafficking charges against them.
		Cambodian RFA reporter Sok Rathavisal, Irishman Kevin Doyle of the English-language Cambodia Daily newspaper, and Cambodian Pen Bunna of rights group Adhoc were detained on Sunday in O Leav, deep in the jungle of northeast Cambodia, where many Montagnards from Vietnam have been hiding for weeks.
	www.unpo.org /news_detail.php?arg=40&par=1017 (921 words)

	Asia via Web Radio/TV
		Whereas shortwave radio was dominated by state supported (and often controlled) stations, the relative ease of digitizing a signal is bringing more and different stations online.
		This was once known as Radio Beijing, the official overseas radio voice of the PRC government.
		Indian radio broadcasts began in 1927 and All India Radio began broadcasting in 1936.
	www.isop.ucla.edu /eas/web/radio-tv.htm (1975 words)

	RWonline: Transition to Digital
		RFA is a taxpayer-funded organization, and Baden believes that open source is a way to make the software available to those who really helped to pay for it.
		The achievements of Radio Free Asia's engineering staff in developing applications in the R-Boss project are all the more impressive when one considers the people and environment where it was created.
		As with many commercial radio stations, RFA is understaffed in the engineering department, and most engineers have about five or six other things on their plate in addition to developing materials for R-Boss.
	www.rwonline.com /reference-room/trans-2-digital/06_rwf_rboss.shtml (1484 words)

	The Epoch Times \| China Seen Suffering a Coal Shortage in 2005
		Radio Free Asia reporter An Pei interviewed assistant professor Dr. Xie Tian from the American Drexel University College of Business and Cai Chongguo, an activist for Chinese laborer’s rights in Paris, to discuss the reason for the supply short-fall and what measures the government can take to alleviate the problem.
		Radio Free Asia: Chinese government statistics show that Chinese coal output was 1.9 billion tons in 2004.
		From the perspective of ‘political desire,’ in fact they do not have the true desire to let the normal economy operate freely; that would mean the party officials would lose their power, and this is something they are not willing to give up.
	www.theepochtimes.com /news/5-2-10/26360.html (721 words)

	Radio Free Europe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Its original purpose was to broadcast news to countries behind the “Iron Curtain” during the cold war.
		In 1975, it was merged with Radio Liberty (RL), a similar enterprise that broadcast to the nations inside the Soviet Union.
		Sur le toit du siège de Radio Free Europe à Prague Les Etats-Unis ont rejeté mardi les protestations de la Russie relative.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/R/RadioF1re.asp (867 words)

	Marketplace Special Series: China Calling - Radio Free Asia
		Radio Free Asia, which broadcasts in nine Asian languages from studios in Washington, D.C. agreed to let Marketplace use its facilities to take calls from China.
		Jill told me that callers often: hike to payphones to avoid being tracked by authorities; they use pseudonyms, as you might imagine; and the audience ranges from regular workers to middle managers, and even to members of the communist party and the army.
		Radio Free Asia is funded by Congress with a mandate to cover internal domestic news in Asian countries, for audiences in those countries.
	marketplace.publicradio.org /features/chinacalling/chinacalling1109.html (396 words)

	TvRadioWorld - Shortwave Broadcasting - Listings by region (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Radio Bangladesh -- Government operated, in several languages, broadcasting to Asia.
		Radio Tehran -- Government operated, the shortwave, external service or IRIB, is several languages.
		Radio Korea International -- The overseas arm of KBS, broadcasting in 10 languages, Korean, English, Russian, Japanese, Chinese, Indonesia, Arabic, French, German and Spanish.
	www.tvradioworld.com /directory/shortwave_radio/shortwave-by-area.asp?area=asi (493 words)

	CNN - Radio Free Asia says broadcasts to Vietnam are being jammed - Feb. 7, 1997 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Radio Free Asia says broadcasts to Vietnam are being jammed
		WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Most of Radio Free Asia's first broadcasts to Vietnam are being jammed, presumably by the Vietnamese government, RFA's president says.
		Radio Free Asia differs from the Voice of America, which provides worldwide news and, sometimes, editorials that reflect the viewpoint of the U.S. government.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9702/07/briefs.am/radio.free.asia.html (145 words)

	QSL Information Pages - Clandestine Stations to Asia
		RFA is not an official voice of the U.S. government, and as specified in its enabling legislation, it at no time broadcasts propaganda.
		R Free Asia, July 1997 reception of 11580 and 11600 via Dushanbe (tentatively identified as the site in hobby publications around this time), with full-data (except site) letter, in 6 months, no v/s.
		Even the person to whom my friends, the owners of the radio, pay their yearly fee to use the radio was unable to tell us whose subcarrier was used or the frequency.
	www.schoechi.de /cl-asi.html (3247 words)

	Radio Free Asia Reporters Stay Home
		The three RFA reporters --Washington-based reporter Arin Basu, producer and technician Patricia Hindman and Mandarin broadcaster Feng Xiao Ming -- all were advised by the White House that federal regulations would prohibit them from boarding the charter flight to China without a valid visa.
		The disclosure of the cable fueled the anger of members of Congress, who were already upset at the exclusion of the three RFA reporters from the press flight.
		Radio Free Asia chief Richard Richter said White House and State Department protests at the decision had been fruitless.
	www.qsl.net /yb0rmi/washtimes_rfa.htm (987 words)

	Clinton objects to China's withdrawal of media visas - June 23, 1998
		The three journalists banned by China's communist government are Arin Basu, a diplomatic reporter for Radio Free Asia; Patricia Hindman, a technician and producer; and broadcaster Feng Xiaoming.
		Richard Richter, president of Radio Free Asia, denounced the Chinese for trying to stifle the free flow of information.
		Radio Free Asia broadcasts to China in Chinese and has upset officials there with its reports on human rights abuses and other issues.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9806/23/china.visas (876 words)

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	China Slams Radio Free Asia Uighur Broadcasts (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Webmaster Note: These are strong words from the Chinese government against Radio Free Asia -- the Chinese government don't want the Uighur people of Xinjiang to get any ideas of rising up in revolt against the Chinese government.
		BEIJING, Jan. 05, 1999 -- (Agence France Presse) China on Tuesday slammed US government-funded Radio Free Asia for its broadcasts in the Uighur language to the northwestern region of Xinjiang.
		"Radio Free Asia is actually a kind of station that freely interferes in the internal affairs of Asian countries," Foreign Ministry spokesman Zhu Bangzao told a news conference.
	www.pacificnet.net /jue/chinanews/docs/990105b.html (286 words)

	Infiltrators of North Korea: Tiny Radios JAMES BROOKE / NY Times 3mar03
		The radio smuggling is part of a growing public and private effort, including foreign radio broadcasts, to crack an information monopoly in the North that has helped keep the Kim family in power for nearly 60 years.
		In February, Radio Free Asia joined Voice of America in broadcasting into North Korea on medium wave, a bandwidth accessible with cheap AM radios.
		Advocates of smuggling radios into the North, mostly human rights and Christian church groups, say their effort is aimed at ensuring that someone is indeed listening.
	www.mindfully.org /Reform/2003/N-Korea-Radios3mar03.htm (1054 words)

	Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		The big news in American radio was made, not surprisingly, by its biggest star, nationally syndicated right-wing talk-show host Rush Limbaugh, whose show was said to reach some 20 million listeners weekly.
		March 24, 2000, San Diego, Calif.), as the first president of CBS's television news operation, pioneered many of the techniques of television news presentation, such as the use of anchormen, and was responsible for launching the career of Walter Cronkite.
		The powerful impact radio can have on the imagination of listeners was amply proved on the evening of Oct. 30, 1938.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-9334084 (803 words)

	IFEX ::
		A local journalist working for the United States-based radio station Radio Free Asia was hit by a truck transporting illegally cut wood while he was taking photographs of illegal logging in Cambodia's Northern Ratanakiri province.
		Visal said he was taking photographs in front of a car when a truck driven by a military officer with Region 1, identified later as Lt. Phal, drove towards him.
		According to Radio Free Asia, in his attempt to escape, the driver was about to run over Visal, who lost his footing and was brushed and dragged for about 100 metres.
	www.ifex.org /en/content/view/full/69542 (304 words)

	RFA: Radio Free Asia
		A former senior U.S. official says some 40 percent of North Korea’s economy derives from international crime, as court proceedings in Australia, Northern Ireland, and the United States shed new light on the issue.
		Chinese authorities in Tibet arrest five monks and close their monastery amid rare protests against an intensified campaign to crack down on followers of the Dalai Lama.
		North Koreans fleeing hunger and political oppression in their homeland are increasingly making the risky journey through China to Laos, in the hope of entering Thailand and seeking political asylum, RFA’s Korean service has learned.
	www.rfa.org (454 words)

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