Show 250: Land Registrati​on and distributi​on and Railway developmen​t issue

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Please find the attached release for the upcoming Equity Weekly Show, broadcast every Sunday after the national news(starting around 7:40PM)on National Television T.V.K. and rebroadcast on Mondays and Fridays at Noon.

This week in our show 250:

• Topic 1 : Land Registration and distribution (Feature)
• Topic 2 : Railway development issue ​(Main Story)

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TVK Announces [unquitable] 'Equity' Political Broadcasts

By Chun Sakada, VOA Khmer
Original report from Phnom Penh
17 June 2008

In the run-up to national elections in July, TVK will broadcast a series of interviews with representatives of all 11 competing parties.

Cambodian voters said Tuesday they were optimistic about watching the broadcasts, which will consist of one party given 10 minutes to outline its platform and take questions from a TVK journalist.

Seng Ly, a high school teacher in Bantey Meanchey province, welcomed the broadcasts, as they will benefit the voters who cannot read Khmer.

TVK is following a principle of "equity," according to a statement by the Ministry of Information and UNDP, which is sponsoring the broadcasts.

The most time is reserved for established parties with experience in previous elections and officials in government posts.

"The UNDP move is very unjust for the political parties and violates the Cambodian electoral law and principle of equality," said Ban Sophal, president of the nascent Society of Justice Party, who said he would complain to the National Election Committee.

At least one voter welcomed the broadcasts, but said making promises on TV was not enough.

"News from the political parties is very interesting for the voters, but I want all the political parties to keep their promises from the election campaign," said Lay Ma, a farmer in Kampong Cham province. "In the past, the political parties held very good campaigns for the voters, but the implementation of their promises was nothing."

Equity News back for Cambodia's commune councils election

February 24, 2007

The Equity News Elections Bulletin, a joint UNDP-TVK project, is retuning to state television and radio for the run-up to the commune councils elections to climax on April 1, said a press release on Friday.

The 15-minute Equity News program will provide coverage of political parties and platforms and follow campaign activities in a wide range of communes throughout the country, said the release jointly issued by Ministry of Information and the UNDP.

It will be broadcast every evening at 07:30 p.m. local time after the regular TVK news on weekdays with a summary edition on Saturdays during the campaign period from March 16 to 30, it said.

Equity News will also resume during the campaign period for the National Elections in 2008, it added.

To mark its return, a ceremony for the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding by Minister of Information Khieu Kanharith and UNDP Program Director Anne-Isabelle Degryse-Blateau in the presence of the UN Resident Coordinator Douglas Gardner will be held at the Ministry of Information on Monday (February 26).

In 2003, during the parliamentary elections, Equity News was seen as a breakthrough in Cambodian election broadcasting. It was the first time that all main political parties received balanced and impartial coverage on television and radio.

It was also the first time that opposition leaders were both seen and heard on the news explaining their platforms and that the concept of equity was employed as a system of allocating air time coverage for political parties on the electronic media.

Source: Xinhua