Thursday, February 19, 2009

DW listeners club meeting in Dhaka on 22nd Feb 2009

Deutsche Welle's Bengali service is pleased to announce that it is holding a listeners' club meeting at the German cultural centre in Dhaka -- the Goethe Institute -- on 22nd February, 2009 at 11.00 A.M. The meeting comes at a time of great success for the Bengali Service. In 2008 DW Bengali received a record number of listeners' mails, SMS, voicemails, phone calls and letters. Some 110,000 Bengali speakers contacted DW to provide feedback last year. That is nearly double the figure for 2007. Moreover, according to Grahame Lucas, Head of the South Asia Department, DW's Bengali website at http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.dw-world.de%2Fbengali is attracting growing interest as a reliable source of regional, European and international news. The site was visited by record numbers of users in 2008 during the Euro cup, Olympic Games, the Mumbai terrorist attack and the election campaign in Bangladesh. At the meeting DW fans will have the opportunity to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of Deutsche Welle's Bengali Service and the new Bengali language website. There will also be a discussion about general changes in the media world, as well as about community radio and community blogging, with the participation of key media industry leaders. Everyone is welcome to attend the meeting. Currently, Deutsche Welle's Bengali service has a new exciting competition for Bengali speaking students, which offers them the unique chance to visit Germany. There are also several other quizzes for users who can win attractive prizes regularly.

Please visit the Deutsche Welle Bengali website for more information:
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http://www.dw-world.de%2Fbengali

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