Radio Free Asia
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| 2025 | Radio Free Asia received the Gracies Award from Alliance for Women in Media in the Radio National Winners category for the special report 'Please save my sister: A North Korean escapee's plea'. |
| April 4 2025 | Radio Free Asia halted radio broadcasts in Mandarin, Tibetan and Lao, and heavily reduced its Burmese, Khmer, Korean and Uyghur language services. |
| March 21 2025 | RFA affiliate WHYNOT halted operations. |
| March 2025 | The Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) imposed a funding freeze on Radio Free Asia, potentially impacting its operations and ability to provide independent reporting. |
| March 15 2025 |
The United States Agency for Global Media terminated grants to Radio Free Asia and Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty following a directive from the Trump Administration.
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New report: Trump’s termination of US government grants to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America and what this signals to Tibetan exiles and their Gelugpa-biased English language media outlets – Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བའི་འགྱུར་དང་འགྲེམས་སྤེལ།
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| March 15 2025 |
The United States Agency for Global Media terminated grants to Radio Free Asia following a directive from the Trump Administration.
www.rfa.org
New report: Trump’s termination of US government grants to Radio Free Asia and Voice of America and what this signals to Tibetan exiles and their Gelugpa-biased English language media outlets – Dakini Translations and Publications མཁའ་འགྲོ་མའི་ལོ་ཙཱ་བའི་འགྱུར་དང་འགྲེམས་སྤེལ།
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| 2024 | Radio Free Asia received two notable awards: the Gracies Award from Alliance for Women in Media for 'Ayeyarwady Riverbank Erosion' produced by Shin Daewe, and the National Edward R. Murrow Award in the Network Radio Digital category for 'Under the Gun in Myanmar'. |
| 2024 | Radio Free Asia received the National Edward R. Murrow Award in the Network Radio Digital category for the report 'Under the Gun in Myanmar'. |
| March 2024 | RFA announced the closure of its Hong Kong bureau due to safety concerns stemming from Hong Kong's National Security Ordinance. |
| January 2022 | RFA announced the appointment of Carolyn Bartholomew as the new chair of its board of directors. |
| 2021 | BenarNews, a RFA affiliate, won the Murrow Award for Excellence in Video from the Radio Television Digital News Association. RFA's affiliate 歪脑 | WHYNOT won the Online News Association's Journalism Award for a feature on preserving the Chinese Feminist Movement. |
| May 11 2021 | Fact-checker First Draft News identified that RFA's Chinese and Cantonese language versions spread anti-vaccine misinformation about Sinopharm and Sinovac vaccines. The misinformation was found to potentially cause vaccine hesitancy and global public health risks. |
| January 2021 | Bay Fang returns as president of Radio Free Asia for a second term. |
| January 22 2021 | Stephen J. Yates' presidency of Radio Free Asia ends. |
| 2020 | Radio Free Asia received the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award. |
| December 2020 | Stephen J. Yates becomes president of Radio Free Asia. |
| June 2020 | Bay Fang's first term as president of Radio Free Asia concludes. |
| May 10 2020 | RFA published a news article about China's border inspections featuring a screenshot from a Reddit post, which was later revealed to contain a stolen image. The story triggered criticism from mainland Chinese media for inconsistent reporting. |
| 2019 | Radio Free Asia received the Edward R. Murrow National Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association. |
| November 2019 | Libby Liu's presidency of Radio Free Asia ends after serving from September 2005. |
| November 20 2019 | Bay Fang becomes president of Radio Free Asia. |
| 2018 | Chinese authorities forcibly disappeared two brothers and five cousins of an editor for RFA's Uyghur language service. |
| 2018 | After RFA journalist Gulchehra Hoja published an interview with a Xinjiang internment camp detainee, Chinese authorities detained approximately two dozen of Hoja's relatives. |
| 2017 | RFA was placed under the newly created U.S. Agency for Global Media, which also sends representatives to its board of directors. |
| December 15 2016 | A Congressional Research Service report is updated, detailing RFA's mandate to broadcast to countries with limited press freedom, including China, Tibet, Xinjiang, Burma, Cambodia, Laos, North Korea, and Vietnam. |
| 2014 | Radio Free Asia received the Sigma Delta Chi award from the Society of Professional Journalists. |
| 2014 | Chinese authorities arrested three brothers of RFA Uyghur Service journalist Shohret Hoshur, believed to be a targeted effort to intimidate the journalist for his reporting on the Xinjiang conflict. |
| 2013 | Radio Free Asia received the Edward R. Murrow Regional Award from the Radio-Television News Directors Association and the Gracie Allen Award from American Women in Radio and Television. |
| 2012 | Radio Free Asia received the Annual Human Rights Press Award from Amnesty International, Hong Kong Journalists Association, and Foreign Correspondents' Club, Hong Kong. |
| November 2012 | Ngabo Jigme, director of the Tibetan language department of Radio Free Asia (RFA), was suddenly fired amid allegations of allowing opposition to the Tibetan government-in-exile and being disrespectful to the 14th Dalai Lama. The dismissal was controversial, with claims of political pressure from exiled government leaders. |
| 2010 | Radio Free Asia received the International Women's Media Foundation's Courage in Journalism Award, the Gracie Allen Award, and the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors' David Burke Distinguished Journalism Award. They also won the Society of Environmental Journalists's First Prize for Outstanding Online Reporting on the Environment for their multimedia series 'The Last Untamed River'. |
| July 13 2010 | Senator Lugar's bill for permanent authorization of Radio Free Asia was signed into law. |
| June 30 2010 | The House of Representatives passed Senator Lugar's bill S.3104 to grant Radio Free Asia permanent Congressional authorization. |
| June 25 2010 | The US Senate unanimously approved Senator Richard Lugar's legislation to permanently authorize Radio Free Asia. |
| March 30 2010 | China's Great Firewall temporarily blocked all Google searches due to an unintentional association with the term 'rfa', which was appearing in Google search URLs and triggering the country's internet censorship filters. |
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