Correspondent's Notebook
Archive for June, 2008
Lights Off – Awareness On
20 June 2008
This weekend, Radio Australia is taking part in a unique regional event, involving broadcasters from across Asia and the Pacific.
Deborah Steele, Radio Australia’s Chief Editor, highlights “Lights off – Awareness On” – the name of a campaign that aims to promote awareness of climate change and help build empathy with those in the region who are likely to be hardest hit.
China’s influence in the Pacific
13 June 2008
With one of the fastest growing global economies, and one of its biggest populations, China is a major player in the world.
Over the past few years it’s spread its influence into many other areas of the world, often in pursuit of access to mineral resources to feed its needs, but also to push for political and diplomatic allegiance.
But that influence is also being felt in the Pacific, and a new report has found that over the past three years China has increased its aid spending in the region, by a massive amount.
Radio Australia’s Pacific Correspondent Campbell Cooney has been looking at China, the Pacific, and aid dollars.
Beyond the Boomtowns
6 June 2008
Karon Snowdon reflects on two weeks investigating how China is changing during the one of the most profound periods of economic renaissance the world has seen. The trip was meant to take in Sichuan – the province which was devastated by an 8 magnitude earthquake two days after she arrived in China.