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From newsgroup rec.radio.shortwave comes the news that Radio St Helena will be on the air on Tuesday, July 17th, on a frequency of 11092.5 kHz, USB, from 1900 until 2100 UTC.

They only very rarely make shortwave broadcasts, so it's always good to get another chance to catch them on-air.

OneLoveRadio writes that Japan plans to begin daily shortwave programs for abductees in North Korea.

There are estimates of around 60 to 80 Japanese citizens who were abducted by North Korea, for the purposes of teaching Japanese language and culture to North Korean spies.

MT Shortwave Central notes that RUV in Iceland ended its shortwave relays on July 1st.

RUV's two stations can still be heard, streaming in the internet: Rás 1 and Rás 2.

Long-time shortwave radio listeners will remember Russia's Radio Mayak, which at one time was rather hard to avoid on the shortwave bands, having many, many transmitters.

Mayak's shortwave broadcasts are long gone, but for those who would still like to listen to its interesting mix of Russian bands and western pop music, it is streaming over the internet here.

ABC News reports that Fairfax, owners of The Melbourne Age and The Sydney Morning Herald newspapers, is buying the Southern Cross Radio network, which includes high rating stations such as 3AW, in Melbourne, and 6PR in Perth.

This move has been enabled by the Australian federal government's new media laws, which were passed in 2006 and recently came into effect, which do away with the previous cross-media ownership prohibitions.