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tanggal 15 Desember 2010 06.06
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AUNG SAN SUU KYI TO APPEAR WEEKLY ON VOA BURMESE CALL-IN
Washington, D.C., December 15, 2010 – Burmese opposition leader and Nobel Peace Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi will take part in a weekly VOA call-in show every Wednesday morning (Burmese time) to answer listeners' questions on a broad range of political, social, and economic issues.
"Aung San Suu Kyi has spent much of the last 20 years of her life under house arrest simply because she wanted to bring democracy to the Burmese people," said VOA Director Danforth Austin. "We hope that her participation in the VOA Burmese program will lead to free and open discussion of issues affecting Burma."
Today's program focused on Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to win back legal status of the National League of Democracy Party. She said the NLD should be granted legal status because "it is fully supported by the people." The country's military government disbanded the National League of Democracy Party after it boycotted the November general election. Last week, a court rejected its appeal to be reestablished.
"Aung San Suu Kyi’s answers to our listeners' e-mailed questions at the beginning of the program will be followed by calls from listeners throughout Burma," said VOA Burmese Service Chief Lwin Htun Than. "This format gives us flexibility to get not only Aung San Suu Kyi’s opinion but also the thoughts of our callers as well."
VOA's Burmese Service broadcasts news and information to Burma six hours a day, seven days a week. Programs can also be heard online at www.VOANews.com/Burmese.
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tanggal 16 Desember 2010 06.31
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Washington, D.C., December 15, 2010 – Nigeria's Minister of Health, along with the wife of Nigeria's vice-president and more than 3,000 others, took part in a Voice of America-sponsored town hall meeting Tuesday, aimed at finding ways to stop the preventable deaths of women and children.
The Nigerian vice president's wife, Hajia Amina Mohammad Namadi Sambo, called maternal mortality "a global menace which is preventable and avoidable." She said she hoped what was discussed at the session would filter down to the "grass roots level."
Maternal mortality figures in Nigeria and surrounding countries vary widely but experts agree they are unacceptably high. According to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), estimates for Nigeria suggest approximately 54,000 women and girls die each year due to pregnancy-related complications.
Patrick Ibrahim Yakowa, the Executive Governor of Kaduna State, where the town hall meeting was held, said he was impressed by the large number of women who "actively contributed to the program," which centered on maternal and child mortality.
The Chairwoman of the House Committee on Millennium Development Goals in Nigeria's National Assembly, Saudatu Sani, called the town hall an "excellent" opportunity for citizens, especially women to "participate in governance."
In addition to dignitaries and area residents, the meeting brought together community, religious and traditional leaders as well as U.S. embassy and USAID officials who helped organize the event.
VOA's Hausa Service, which co-sponsored the town hall meeting, has been airing programs focused on maternal health issues on both radio and the Internet. To listen to VOA Hausa programs on line, go to www.voanews.com/hausa/news.
The Voice of America, which first went on the air in 1942, is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government through the Broadcasting Board of Governors. VOA broadcasts approximately 1,500 hours of news, information, educational, and cultural programming every week to an estimated worldwide audience of more than 123 million people. Programs are produced in 44 languages and are intended exclusively for audiences outside of the United States.
For more information, call VOA Public Relations at (202) 203-4959, or e-mail askvoa@voanews.com.
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