Shitu Rajbhandari of Nepal joined a Newspapers & English workshop WAN's latest Asia NIE event. Details HERE
. Australia
The West Australian was awarded the WAN 2004 World Young Reader Prize (along with the Indian paper Ananda Bazar Patrika) and its NIE manager, Lynne Cahill, at left in picture, has since become a judge in the global competition and a regular workshop leader for WAN. Other Australian newspapers also run top-quality programmes. More
India has a full slate of top-level NIE initiatives, with several winning WAN's World Young Reader Prizes. Those include top prizes for Ananda Bazar Patrika (2004) and The Times of India (2007), and other honors for The Hindustan Times (2008) and Malayala Manorama (2008). More
. Indonesia
Indonesia's first NIE seminar was organized in January 2004 with some 40 participants including teachers, journalists, and experts. The "Startseminar" concluded with an agreement to promote NIE and established NIE Indonesia and the non-governmental organization KMBI as its literacy partner. The Indonesian Newspapers Publishers’ Association (SPS) is responsible for facilitating the NIE program. Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world, consisting of more than 17 thousands islands spreading across the equator to form a chain of islands between the Pacific and Indian Ocean.
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. Japan
In 2003, the NSK Circulation Committee designated April 6 as "Newspaper Reading Day" and the ensuing one-week period as "Springtime Newspaper Week" to push campaigns to entice the younger generations, who constitute a large part of the people who are not reading newspapers, to become subscribers. In fiscal year 2003, the number of schools taking part in NIE activities grew by 21 to 389. We must continue to raise the profile of the NEWSPARK Newspaper Museum, the Newspaper Foundation for Education & Culture and the Newspaper in Education (NIE) program to foster future readers and supporters.
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. Korea
A newly formed Newspapers in Education committee of the Korean Newspaper Association will assist newspaper associations, government and the Ministry of Ecuation in policy-making and campaign development. The committee's activities are focused on developing NIE campaigns and related works, studying NIE effectiveness and developing the NIE programme and coordinator system.
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New Straits Times started the NIE programme in Malaysia in 1985. It was quiet in the 90s but from 2000 the programme took on a whole different form. The NST-NIE programme is closely aligned to supporting the Education Ministry's goals for English, Science and Maths teaching. So our education supplements - the Next Step (for secondary schools) and Primary Plus (for the primary
students) - carry "lesson plans" for teachers and activities for students.
Active programmes include those for children of pre-school years to university students, adults and parents.
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. New Zealand
NEWSZONE is designed to encourage young people to read newspapers and to
complement the NIE programme in schools. Kids can enter competitions
online, answer quiz questions, complete scavenger hunts using their own
daily newspaper, ask the reporters questions, email the Editor or select
cities on a Map of NZ to see a pop-up of a news story from that area.
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. Philippines
The Junior Inquirer is a tabloid size newspaper for 8 to 12 year-olds that began as part of the print edition of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. We distribute 50,000 copies every week to around 100 schools, grade 4 to 7. The supplement usually averages eight pages, unless there is advertising in which case we produce 12 pages.
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. Singapore
The Press Foundation of Singapore (PFS) is a charity foundation set up in 2003 to build a life-long learning community, with one of our main objectives being promoting the use of newspapers as a learning and teaching tool. The PFS has organised a Teachers Conference on the Use of Newspapers in Teaching and Learning, and two sets of camps for students aged 12-14 to inculcate in them an interest in newspaper reading in a fun and interesting environment and format.
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. Thailand
In Thailand, a national effort to promote young readership began in 2004 when 14 regional and national newspaper executives and 30 school teachers participated in workshop on promoting the newspaper reading habit among Thai children. The workshop had several objectives, including building up cooperation and a network between newspaper publishers and school teachers for future joint activities. The workshop was organised by the Press Council of Thailand, the Press Development Institute of Thailand and supported by the WAN Newspapers in Education Development project, with Jan Steen of Norway as the main facilitator More
Find out more about WAN's young readership development work in our e-report by clicking on the cover
The West Australian was awarded the WAN 2004 World Young Reader Prize (along with the Indian paper Ananda Bazar Patrika) and its NIE manager, Lynne Cahill, at left in picture, has since become a judge in the global competition and a regular workshop leader for WAN. Other Australian newspapers also run top-quality programmes. 
In Thailand, a national effort to promote young readership began in 2004 when 14 regional and national newspaper executives and 30 school teachers participated in workshop on promoting the newspaper reading habit among Thai children. The workshop had several objectives, including building up cooperation and a network between newspaper publishers and school teachers for future joint activities. The workshop was organised by the Press Council of Thailand, the Press Development Institute of Thailand and supported by the WAN Newspapers in Education Development project, with Jan Steen of Norway as the main facilitator 
