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Andrew Cheng, Director of the Information Division of
Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in New Delhi, "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 a national radio station and is under the Central
Broadcasting System (CBS), which is the national broadcasting
system of Taiwan. CBS was established in 1928 in Nanjing
(mainland China) as the voice of the Kuomintang (KMT)
government. After the conclusion of the Second World
War which saw the surrender and withdrawal of Japanese
forces, the KMT and the Communist Party of China (CPC)
resumed their civil war. The KMT retreated to Taiwan
in 1949 and the Central Broadcasting System moved with
them.
The
RTI currently broadcasts in 13 languages over various
regions of the world. Among 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
Carlson Huang, Chief of Foreign Languages section and
Enlish Program host in the RTI.
"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
establishing 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. The issue of there being distubance
in the signals between 0930 and 1000 Hrs and that there
are times when the signals just fade away at those times.
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 response 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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