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RFA Vietnamese Starts New Webcast
RFA's Vietnamese Service, which broadcasts on radio, began producing a webcast of news, posted on both the RFA site and YouTube. The show is shot in an improvised studio with a green screen, and clips are about 4 minutes long. The shows feature four to six news items illustrated by photos and videos, including material sent by citizen reporters.

VOA Vietnamese Adds New Blogs VOA's Vietnamese Web site added blogs by five prominent Vietnamese bloggers on topics from technology and social trends to literature and poetry to politics and the economy. Since July, the bloggers have contributed more than 180 posts that have elicited over 8,000 comments.

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RFE/RL's Moldova Service Airs Exclusive Interview with New Government
Prime Minister Vlad Filat gave his first interview after being approved by the parliament to RFE/RL's Moldova Service, telling listeners that Moldova needs to establish special strategic relations with the United States. RFE/RL interviews with Moldova's Speaker of Parliament, Acting President and Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Justice, Education, Culture and Defense were also quoted by domestic media.

VOA Armenian Exclusive Interview Anticipates Armenia-Turkish Accord
On October 10, Turkey and Armenia signed a historic accord normalizing relations after almost a century of hostility. Days earlier, the Armenian President Serge Sargsian signaled his government’s intentions to normalize relations with neighboring Turkey in an exclusive interview with VOA’s Armenian Service during his visit to New York. VOA’s reports were broadcast by an affiliate in Yerevan and scooped the station’s own reporter, who was traveling with Sargsian.

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Alhurra Remembers 9/11 Attacks with Special Coverage
Alhurra TV commemorated the 8th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks with special coverage and a town hall meeting with six experts on the Middle East, U.S. foreign policy and homeland security. Al Youm also aired reports from the U.S. and the Middle East on peaceful coexistence among Christians, Muslims and Jews in New York, the negative effects of terrorism on Saudi Arabian youth and how victims’ relatives are turning their grief into actions against violence.

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Radio Martí Reports on H1N1 Ensure Spread of Accurate Information
Radio Martí broke the story that a pregnant woman had died of H1N1 in Cuba, a fact that was not recognized by the Cuban government until nearly a month later. Increased coverage of H1N1 during September included health information, interviews with officials from the Pan American Health Organization and interviews with doctors in Cuba who confirmed that patients are arriving at hospitals with H1N1 symptoms. Radio Marti is not labeling these reports as H1N1 patients until they are confirmed.