CHMB has a well-known history and reputation for producing the best news reports and current affairs shows. For years, all political parties have paid close attention to CHMB’s programs to understand Chinese community issues and Chinese Canadians’ political thinking. Both the 2005 BC civic elections and the 2006 federal election were covered extensively by the news and current affairs department in our news programs and special programs. In addition, CHMB partnered with Ming Pao Daily News to host the 2005 Civic Election Forum and the 2006 Federal Election Forum at shopping malls in Richmond and Burnaby. The series of forums were broadcast live by CHMB. Many audience turned up at the forum to talk directly to the political candidates.

As part of our ongoing efforts to encourage our audience to keep in touch with Canadian news, CHMB partnered with Ming Pao Daily News to organize the “Guess Which are the Top Ten Canadian News 2005” contest. The response was overwhelming.

In October 2005, shortly after Hong Kong Chief Executive Donald Tsang was appointed, he flew over to Vancouver on a business trip. Given our reputation and longstanding influence in the Chinese community, the Hong Kong Government chose CHMB as the only Chinese-language media for Mr. Tsang to interact live with our audience for one hour.