The topics covered in this report range from a critical review of each government’s public diplomacy programs and its aims and objectives for international broadcasting, to developments in the international broadcasting arena – the major evolutions and trends witnessed over the last decades.

In September 2004, the New Zealand Agency for International Development (NZAID) released its Asia Strategy to provide a framework for New Zealand’s Official Development Assistance (NZ ODA) in Asia (2004 - 2015).

Since its founding in 1973, Trade Aid Importers Ltd (TAI) has imported handcraft and commodities from partners in Africa, Asia, South and Central America and the Pacific.

The NZAID Multilateral and Regional Agency Assessment Framework (MARAAF) was developed in 2002 in response to the Cabinet minute establishing NZAID, which directed NZAID to more closely target its efforts towards agencies aligned with NZAID’s poverty focus. The primary stated purpose of the MARAAF was to ‘help determine where NZAID should be directing its development...

The complex reality of our region more than justifies Kevin Rudd’s proposal for a regional community, writes Geoffrey Barker.