Speaking at the Asia News Network (ANN) 25th anniversary celebrations in Kuala Lumpur on Friday (Sept 6), Communications Minister Fahmi Fadzil said Asian countries must learn and hear from each other directly for the region to prosper.
Fahmi said Asia’s voice cannot be left unheard or suppressed given its large population.
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00:00And all of our members, you may just place your hand, hand in hand together, let's celebrate.
00:06So, on my count of three, two, one.
00:14Ladies and gentlemen, this is the 25th year anniversary of Asia News Network.
00:21Not including India, China and the rest, Southeast Asia alone is 660 million people.
00:29Indonesia alone is three quarters of Europe.
00:35As such, our voices cannot be not heard, unheard, suppressed.
00:44And for Asia to prosper, we must learn more about each other, we must hear from each other directly.
00:52Ideally, without intermediaries, and only in discovering each other, appreciating each other's not only cultures, values, histories, we can hope to prosper together.
01:03I do believe that there must be a place for media for the kind of necessary work that needs to take place.
01:12By sending journalists down to the ground to investigate.
01:17Journalists who are not fly-by-night, but have accumulated years and years, if not decades of experience.
01:24Who've seen struggle, who've seen the kind of atrocities, who've seen the kind of difficulties, who are not AI.
01:34As such, I hope that Asia News Network can be somewhat of a bridge, can be somewhat of a catalyst for some of the conversations that governments in Asia need to have.
01:47At the start, our participation in EANN is significant.
01:51It has allowed us to contribute to a stronger and more connected media landscape across Asia.
01:57We have seen how EANN's regional integration resources, expertise and stories have unified and amplified the voice of Asia in a global media landscape.
02:08As you already know, today's media landscape is very different from when we started.
02:13It has become increasingly challenging to uphold credibility, particularly in the emergence of digitalization and AI.
02:21Which is both good and bad, but surely complicated the fact for mainstream media in maintaining their role as a reliable and trusted source of news.
02:31To my fellow delegates, I think we have done a great job in combating this effectively while upholding journalistic integrity.
02:40With digitalization and AI taking the center stage, there is no exception in the media industry too.
02:48I say we embrace it, we ride the waves, but keep our eyes fixedly on the horizon and our feet firmly on the surfboard we are perched on.