Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Nauru Television (NTV), established on 31 May 1991, is the government-owned, non-commercial sole television company in the Republic of Nauru. It is operated by the Nauru Broadcasting Service and overseen by the Nauru Media Bureau .
Nauru, [c] officially the Republic of Nauru [d], formerly known as Pleasant Island, is an island country in Micronesia, part of the Oceania region in the Central Pacific. It is a microstate and its nearest neighbour is Banaba of Kiribati about 300 km (190 mi) to the east.
The Nauru Broadcasting Service is the state-owned, non-commercial broadcasting service of the Republic of Nauru. Founded in 1968, when the country obtained independence , the NBS operates Nauru Television and Radio Nauru .
Mass media in Nauru remain undeveloped, but Australian aid program AusAID has been financing and supporting their development. As of February 15, 2010, Nauruan media consist in a television station and a radio station, with a fortnightly newspaper due to be launched within days.
Nauru Television This page was last edited on 6 June 2020, at 10:27 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike ...
On the tiny island nation, which has a land area of just 21.1 sq km (8.1 sq miles), China's state television CCTV has moved even more quickly, filing its first report from Nauru on the same day ...
15 January – Nauru withdraws recognition of Taiwan and establishes relations with China. [1] 24 January – Nauru formally re-establishes diplomatic ties with China after withdrawing recognition of Taiwan. [2] February – Over 40 asylum seekers found by the Australian Border Force in Western Australia on 16 February are taken to Nauru. [3]
1940 map of Nauru showing the extent of the phosphate mined lands. Mining operations on Nauru began in 1906, at which time it was part of the German colonial empire. The island had some of the world's largest and highest quality deposits of phosphate, a key component in fertiliser, making it a strategically important resource on which agriculture in Australia and New Zealand depended.