Community radio expanded rapidly in Latin America and Africa in the 1980s and the 1990s, while in Asia it was slow to take off, mainly due to government indifference. The Philippines is often described as having Asia's most liberal media environments, yet, Louie Tabing, the founder of Tambuli Community Radio describes his country's media as a system of PPPPP-profit, propaganda, power, politics, privilege and/ or prestige. What Tabing argues is applicable to most countries in Asia, and the clamour for community radio has been driven by a desire to giving a voice for the "voiceless" masses. Thus, in recent years, community radio activists have been able to open up Asia's airwaves for community radio broadcasting - sometimes without official government sanction. In Thailand, when the government called for applications for community radio broadcasting licenses over 6000 applied, while in Indonesia, since the arrival of the "Reformasi" era after the downfall of Suharto in 1998, there's been over a 1000 community radio stations established all over the country. Almost all of these have been unlicensed. Nepal has over 100 community radio stations and its first community radio broadcaster Radio Sagarmatha today calls itself a public service broadcaster. With Indian government slowly opening up the airwaves for community radio broadcasting, it is predicted that within 5 years there could be over 4000 community radio stations operating across the sub-continent. Thus, community radio in Asia is now well on the way to becoming perhaps the mainstream communication medium for both rich and the poor, and the urban and the rural populations in Asia. This book is thus a timely look at how the community media movement has developed across Asia in the past 2 decades with insights from practitioners and researchers across Asia.