Voice of Tibet (VOT) has extended its Tibetan short wave radio service to 30 minutes programmes seven days a week, starting from Tuesday 28 January. Since May 1996 a 15 minutes programme has been aired five days a week, Monday through Friday, containing Tibet related news and feature stories in Tibetan dialects.

As a result of surveys carried out in the target area (Tibet and India/Nepal) the programmes starts 45 minutes later in the evening than the previous 15 minutes service, now starting at 8:30 pm Beijing time / 6:00 pm Indian time on frequency.

Voice of Tibets main objective is to provide uncensored Tibet related news and information to the Tibetans in Tibet, laying particular stress on issues like Human Rights, Culture, News on the situation inside Tibet and news from the Tibetan exile communities and Support Groups. The extended service enables VOT to improve the coverage of events and information from the Tibetan exile communities as well as from the Support Groups and other Tibet related initiatives throughout the world.

All engaged organisations and individuals throughout the world are therefore strongly encouraged to provide VOT with Tibet related news and information of events and initiatives planned or taking place in their region or in their country. Those informations can be recorded and then be transmitted through telephone line to our studio, faxed or e-mailed. VOT also accepte telephone interviews or recorded tapes/cassettes. If VOT is informed of initiatives and events in advance, it will be more easy to plan and coordinate the coverage in the programmes.

VOT has invested heavily in the extended service, and is now searching for support and grants to secure the future activities. Suggestions and financial contributions for funding activities is extremely important for the project and will be very much appreciated. Thanks!

Voice of Tibet

Contact persons:

Sonam T. Khorlatsang, editor-in-chief

Oystein Alme, project coordinator

Welhavensgate - 10166 Oslo - Norway

Telephone: +47-22 11 27 00 or +47-22 11 54 74

Fax: +47 22111209

E-mail: vot@sn.no

Bank account: 1607.39.44191 (Sparebanken NOR, Oslo) (with the mention "Voice of Tibet 1997").