Month: June 2023

Radio Taiwan International (Rti) is heading to Indonesia to attend listeners’ club events and meet with local media and educational institutions.Rti president Cheryl Lai will lead a team to visit Kalimantan on June 2 and Jakarta on June 4 to deepen relations between Taiwan and Indonesia and expand Rti’s international network.Rti launched its Indonesian service in 1957, providing Taiwan’s Indonesian communities with information and entertainment. It will interact with local listeners for the first time in five years, attending events initiated by the listeners’ clubs in Indonesia.In West Kalimantan, Rti will partner with the Borneo Listeners Club for the first time and host a listeners’ event in the provincial capital of Pontianak. Pontianak Mayor Ir. Edi Rusdi Kamtono will be in attendance to support the event. Rti will also sign a cooperation memorandum with Radio Volare, a local radio station, to jointly create a 30-minute program every quarter.At the Jakarta listeners’ club event, veteran monitors will share their experiences listening to the radio across more than 50 years. Rti also plans to sign a letter of intent to collaborate with local media group Metrum Media.In addition to attending the listeners’ club events, Rti will also meet with other local educational and media institutions, such as Radio Republik Indonesia, MINA News Agency, IDN Times, Tanjungpura University.Rti is the first international media organization to host in-person listeners’ events in Indonesia. Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, Rti regularly visited and interacted with listeners’ clubs in various countries every one to two years. Rti is now resuming this tradition, including a planned trip to Thailand in September to interact with even more international listeners. […]

Indian network Radio City is back with the second edition of ‘Business Titans’, an international event to recognise Indian business leaders who have strived and thrived to attain success through resilience and consistent innovation.The event will be held from June 9 to 11 in Dubai.The core objective of the event is to provide Indian enterprises with a recognised platform to augment their business excellence.It will feature a convergence of Indian business tycoons; Bollywood stars, dignitaries from the royal family of Dubai and industry experts.Ashit Kukian, CEO, Radio City said: “At Radio City, we have been dedicated to championing the spirit of entrepreneurship and recognizing the indomitable Indian business minds who have carved their path to success. Building upon the remarkable response received in the first edition, we are thrilled to commence the second edition of ‘Radio City Business Titans’ in the breathtaking city of Dubai. The success of the first edition demonstrates our commitment to providing a prestigious platform to the thriving entrepreneurs and felicitating them for their unwavering determination, relentless innovation, and unwavering commitment to excellence.” […]

Radio journalist Cresencio “Cris” Bunduquin was shot dead early Wednesday morning by two gunmen on a motorcycle as he was leaving his home in Calapan City, the capital of the central province of Oriental Mindoro in Philippines.Bunduquin, 50, was the host of “Batita at Talakayan,” a show on y DWXR 101.7FM and online radio MUX.Agence France-Presse quoted DWXR manager Jester Joaquin as saying Bunduquin was a “hard-hitting” journalist who recently told him he had received death threats in connection with his work and wanted a change in hisline of work.In his latest shows, Bunduquin had denounced cases of local political corruption, the province’s illegal betting mafia and, the circumstances surrounding last February’s nearby oil spill from the Princess Empress, a 50-year-old tanker whose operating permit had reportedly been forged.He is the third journalist to be killed since President Ferdinand Marcos took office last June.Percy Lapid, the host of a show on Radio DWBL, was ambushed and killed by two shots fired at point-blank range by a gunman outside him home in the Manila suburb of Las Piñas last October.With an average of three or four journalists murdered every year, the Philippines is ranked 147th out of 180 countries in RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index.It is ranked seventh on CPJ’s most recent Impunity Index, which spotlights countries worldwide where journalists are slain and the killers go free.Since 1986, there have been 198 journalists killed in the Philippines, based on the data and monitoring from the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP).“The senseless killing of radio reporter Cris Bundoquin shows that those who attack journalists remain undeterred under President Ferdinand Marcos Jr.’s one-year-old government,” said Shawn Crispin, CPJ’s senior Southeast Asia representative. “Until the Philippine government shows it is serious about ending impunity in media murders, such killings will likely continue.”   “Everything indicates that Cris Bunduquin was murdered in reprisal for his journalistic comments. This shocking killing must not go unpunished, and we call on the Oriental Mindoro provincial prosecutor’s office to do everything possible to identify the perpetrators and, above all, the instigators and bring them before a judge. The vicious circle of impunity for crimes of violence against journalists must be broken,” said Daniel Bastard, Head of RSF’s Asia-Pacific desk.“Bunduquin’s killing further shows that journalists in the Philippines still operate under threat despite our improvement in the press freedom index and the relatively friendlier relations that media has with the current administration,” said Jonathan de Santos, chairman of the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. […]