Thursday, June 26, 2008

BBC shuts down Romanian service

The BBC World Service is to close its Romanian language service, after 69 years of broadcasting. Transmissions in Romanian will cease on 1 August. In a statement, World Service Director Nigel Chapman praised the service, which he said had been "a beacon of free and independent information".

Full story at :
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7473778.stm

(Thanks to Naleen Kumar for the link)

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