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Article: Over 430 Journalists to Cover BFA First Meeting
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- April 11, 2002
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More than 430 domestic andoverseas journalists have applied to
cover the first Bo'ao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference to be
held in Bo'ao on the central east coast of Hainan island on April 12
and 13.
One quarter of the applicants are from overseas organizations,
including AFP, Reuters and CNN, according to sources from the BFA
Secretariat.
More than 100 of the applicants have arrived at Bo'ao, including
44 reporters from Japanese media organizations, making them the
biggest overseas news delegation at the BFA annual meeting.
A dozen news organizations from Hong Kong have dispatched some 40
reporters to cover the annual meeting, said the sources.
The BFA, initiated in 1998 by former ...