The Asian service also had subtitles in Chinese, Thai, and Korean.
The process began with the Asian services, which switched on the 6 October 2006, followed by the South African service on the 1 October 2008.
In 1996, Mr. Bloomberg made her his ambassador to London to start up the company's European, Asian and South American services.
In late 1921, service to South America was resumed with the Seydlitz, and in early 1922, East Asian service with the Westfalen.
Bush House has had a great many language services at one point or another, and so I would like to finish with an anecdote from our own Central Asian service.
He is now head of the Central Asian service.
When I joined the Central Asian service in 1994, a calm, grey-haired man was introduced to me.
Geet FM complains that no franchise was ever advertised for an Asian service in Leicester.
I don't have to look far beyond my own Central Asian service to see several first-class poets and writers who have worked or are still working here.
In the BBC's Central Asian service, we know Urunboy very well.