Correspondent's Notebook
Archive for April, 2009
Fiji’s interim government faces deadline
24 April 2009
Fiji faces a deadline of Friday next week to announce it’s holding free elections, or it’ll be kicked out of the South Pacific Forum.
Radio Australia’s Pacific Beat reporter Bruce Hill examines the issues surrounding this deadline.
Thrown out of Fiji
17 April 2009
Following the revoking of Fiji’s constitution on Good Friday and the reappointment of Frank Bainimarama as interim prime minister, Fiji’s media has faces a major crackdown on its coverage of the country’s political situation.
Australia Network’s Sean Dorney was expelled from Fiji after its military-led government objected to his stories on its media crackdown and the censoring of local journalists, and he delivers this week’s Notebook.
Heavy traffic on Indonesia’s democratic path
10 April 2009
This week parliamentary elections were held in Indonesia, and Connect Asia presenter Sen Lam was in Jakarta to report on the event for Radio Australia.
Sen found that Indonesian democracy – imperfect as it is – is forcing the world to take a fresh look at the world’s largest Muslim nation.
Economic hard times in Singapore
3 April 2009
In a week that saw G-20 leaders converge on London to discuss the global financial crisis – people around the world saw the impact of the global financial crisis gaining pace.
In Singapore, people have enjoyed economic growth for decades, but as the ABC’s South East Asia correspondent, Karen Percy, reports now the export-dependent city-state is facing a contraction of 10 per cent.
