Mission
| Broadcasting Information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Language Service | Launch Date | Daily Broadcast Hours |
| Burmese | February 1997 | 4 Hours, Daily |
| Cantonese | May 1998 | 2 Hours, Daily |
| Khmer | September 1997 | 2 Hours, Daily |
| Korean | March 1997 | 5 Hours, Daily |
| Lao | August 1997 | 2 Hours, Daily |
| Mandarin | September 1996 | 12 Hours, Daily |
| Tibetan | December 1996 | 10 Hours, Daily |
| Uyghur | December 1998 | 2 Hours, Daily |
| Vietnamese | February 1997 | 2 Hours, Daily |
Radio Free Asia is a private, nonprofit corporation broadcasting and publishing online news, information, and commentary in nine Asian languages to listeners who do not have access to full and free news media. RFA’s broadcasts seek to promote the rights of freedom of opinion and expression, including the freedom to “seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”
The U.S. International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (Title III of Pub.L. 103-236) is more explicit about the mission of RFA:
the continuation of existing U.S. international broadcasting, and the creation of a new broadcasting service to people of the People's Republic of China and other countries of Asia, which lack adequate sources of free information and ideas, would enhance the promotion of information and ideas, while advancing the goals of U.S. foreign policy.Read more about this topic: Radio Free Asia
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