[US Senator Richard] Lugar introduces bill to permanently authorize Radio Free Asia

Senator Richard Lugar (R.-Indiana)

Lugar introduced legislation that would promote the free dissemination of information in East Asia through the permanent authorization of Radio Free Asia

2010-03-13
BigNews.biz (press release)

U.S. Sen. Dick Lugar introduced legislation that would promote the free dissemination of information in East Asia through the permanent authorization of Radio Free Asia (S.3104).

Sens. Kaufman (D-DE), Franken (D-MN), and Inouye (D-HI) are original cosponsors of the bill.

Congress created Radio Free Asia (RFA) in 1996 to broadcast news into Burma, Cambodia, China, Laos, North Korea, Tibet and Vietnam in local languages and dialects. The hope at the time was that the nations served by RFA would loosen their grip on censorship as their economies modernized and living standards improved; however, these reforms never materialized.

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