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DELHI: Radio Taiwan International (RTI) held its biennial
Listeners' Club Meet in Delhi today.
Previously
held in March 2006 in New Delhi and Kolkata, the RTI delegates
visited Chennai and Kolkata along with New Delhi this year.
Speaking
to the members of the club, RTI chairman Yu Cheng said, "We
aim to achieve international cooperation through our programming
and news. Although Taiwan has a population of over 22 million,
we still haven't been granted a place in the WHO."
Taipei
Economic and Cultural Center, New Delhi, director of information
division Andrew Cheng added, "Taiwanese journalists aren't
even allowed to cover the World Health Assembly proceedings.
We are eager to again become a member of the WHO and we require
international support for our cause."
RTI
is Taiwan's national radio station, and is under the Central
Broadcasting System (CBS), which is the country's national
broadcasting system.
The
RTI currently broadcasts in 13 languages over various regions
of the world. The broadcasting langauges include French, German,
Indonesian, Thai and Japanese. The language for broadcast
in India is currently English.
"We
have been suggested by listeners over our tour across India
to broadcast in Hindi, Tamil and Bengali. It is too early
for me to give you concrete information but I will make sure
I put this forward to the relevant government agencies back
in Taiwan," said Cheng.
"Currently,
we look at Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese as very important
languages for broadcast as we have about 300,000 immigrant
workers in Taiwan from the South-East Asian region and many
of them have married Taiwanese locals," said RTI chief
of foreign languages section and English programme host Carlson
Huang.
"The
RTI is government owned and works similarly to the way the
BBC or the Deutsche Welle networks run. Our main aim in broadcast
is to provide information to listeners about Taiwan, its culture
and its people. We look to establish international cooperation
through our work," said Huang on the fuctionalities of
the RTI.
Although
the members of the club were generally very happy with the
programming content, there was an issue that most of them
brought up. At times, between 9:30 am and 10 am, the signals
just fade away. The station currently broadcasts at two frequencies
viz. 9785 kHz and 11550 kHz and the problem was experienced
at the 9785 kHz frequency.
"This
is a serious problem as we see it. We will talk this over
with our technical team when we get back and we certainly
would want to rectify them at the soonest. Also, although
we have got many positive responses on our programming content,
we will not rest on our laurels but will work towards making
the content even better," promised Cheng.
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