The call for entries has been sounded for the 23rd International URTI Radio Grand Prix.

Programmes from around the world are honoured with the Grand Prix based on the research efforts involved and their originality.

Each year, a different theme is proposed and participants are allowed to freely interpret the theme. The theme for this year's edition is poverty. Radio productions in their diverse forms - reports, documentaries, essays, fiction, sound composition, children's stories - are eligible for submission.

A recent ITU survey on the general situation of digital broadcasting in Asia Pacific reveals that 10 of the 22 respondent countries and regions had implemented DTTB by 2010 while four others are in the process of introducing this technology by 2015.

The 10 countries include Australia, Cambodia, China, Hongkong, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Singapore and Vietnam. Mongolia, India, Sri Lanka and Tonga are moving towards DTTB by 2015.

Myanmar is planning to set up a national media training college in the coming years to bring up first class talent for radio and television in the country and ASEAN at large. On April 28th, 2011, at the invitation of Mr. U Winn Maw, Chairman of Forever Group, CEO of MRTV-4 and Adviser of Ministry of Information, Myanmar, AIBD Director Yang Binyuan attended the Myanmar Media Training College (MMTC) Planning Meeting in Yangon.

AIBD’s latest joint venture Mediahub has been introduced at this year’s MIPTV in the Palais des Festivals, Cannes, France. The energetic Mediahub team led by its general manager Dimitri Mendjisky, met key broadcasters and production houses from all over the world, of which 34 agreed to become content providers for Mediahub.

China Radio International (CRI) will pursue more initiatives with AIBD and ABU, actively engaging with broadcasters in the Asia-Pacific region to address the challenges of rapidly developing communication technologies and competition from new media platforms.

On 25th March 2011, the members of the AIBD family took the opportunity to wish two colleagues who completed their tenure of office as Programme Managers.

Mr Yang Binyuan, Director of AIBD, thanked the two colleagues Mr P Das, and Ms Juliette Vivier for their excellent contributions to AIBD over the last few years and said, “ We, at AIBD never says goodbye to colleagues who have rendered their services. Once one serves AIBD they will always belong to this small family of AIBD, no matter where they are ”.

He presented each of them with a souvenir and a memoir with the staff members penning their individual wishes and expressing their sentiments.

Bigger projects can only be finsihed in time with manpower. This rule applied for the AIBD website as well and that was the way, Ms Mpho Thebe found her way to us. She is a student of Mass Communication at the Limkokwing University and spent almost 3 months as an intern at AIBD. 

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