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Dalai Lama Wraps Up Taiwan Trip in Exclusive Interview With the Voice of America Nobel Prize Laureate Gao Xingjian Gives Exclusive Television Interview to the Voice of America
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WINS GOLDEN BELL AWARD Washington, D.C., April 9, 2001 -- The Voice of America's (VOA) Mandarin program Health Forum has won first prize in Taiwan's Golden Bell Award for "Best International Chinese Broadcasting Program." The Voice of America was the first broadcaster outside of Taiwan to receive this award, in the second year that it has been one of the Golden Bell Awards categories. Health Forum's award-winning program focused on HIV/AIDS and was broadcast on December 1, 2000, in observance of World AIDS Day 2000. Program host Yabo Soong and guest Dr. Shixin Tang, an AIDS researcher at the National Institutes of Health, discussed the ways it is transmitted, symptoms, prevention, treatment, and origins of HIV. Ten listeners from inside mainland China called VOA collect to ask questions on subjects from AIDS treatment facilities to sex education. Health Forum is a live radio/TV simulcast that is broadcast from 9:00 to 10:00 p.m. (local time in China) every Saturday and carried on the mainland in all five star hotels on the Fox channel. The program won first prize in competition against two other finalists--Radio Singapore International and Radio France International. The Golden Bell Awards are the largest and most prestigious award among radio broadcasters in Taiwan and in Chinese communities worldwide. The Government Information Office of Taiwan created the award in 1963. After 1977, the Golden Bell Awards ceremonies were recast in the style of the American Oscar Awards, featuring new award categories, a nomination process and a grand award ceremony. VOA broadcasts twelve hours in Mandarin and two in Cantonese daily, including five weekly one-hour TV satellite broadcasts. The Voice of America is a multimedia international broadcasting service funded by the U.S. Government. VOA broadcasts over 900 hours of news, informational, educational, and cultural programming every week to an audience of some 91 million worldwide. Programs are produced and broadcast in English and 52 other languages. Releases | VOA | WORLDNET | IBB | Radio/TV Marti |