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Asia News Time is a Chinese-language daily newspaper founded on August 28, 1993, in Bangkok. At the time of its founding it was Thailand's sixth Chinese-language daily. It is distributed across Southeast Asia and globally. The paper serves Thailand's ethnic Chinese community. According to its Baidu profile — whose original source links are broken — the paper has also served as an in-flight publication for Bangkok Airways. The paper describes itself as having been established by "patriotic overseas Chinese inv…
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Thailand Headlines (泰國頭條新聞) is a Chinese-language online news portal covering Thailand, established in August 2013 when it published its first news item on Sina Weibo. It is operated by the Thai Jiaranai Group (泰國亞洲大衆集團（大衆）有限公司), based in Bangkok, and led by publisher Guo Rui (郭蕊). In May 2023, Guo was arrested by Thai police on allegations of using her connecti…
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TAIGUO.COM (泰國網, literally "Thailand Network") is a Chinese-language news portal targeting Thailand's ethnic Chinese community, archived as active in May 2025. Launched in 2008 by founder Wang Xinyu (王新宇) as an online community forum for Chinese residents in Thailand, it was formally renamed Taiguo.com in September 2016. It is owned by Thailand Link Point E-Commerce Co., Ltd. (泰國領跑電子商務有限公司), a Bangkok-based company established in 2015 that, in its own promotional materials, described itself as having "a young …
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Thai Jiaranai Group Public Company Limited (泰國亞洲大衆集團（大衆）有限公司) is a Bangkok-headquartered conglomerate with branch offices and representative offices in Beijing, Shantou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It is the parent company of Thailand Headlines (泰國頭條新聞) — which describes itself as an outlet devoted to "telling China's story," an official CCP phrase for external propaganda — and describes itself as one of Thailand's most influential ethnic Chinese business groups, claiming repeated commendation from Thailand's Privy Council and designation as an official co…
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The Tourism Authority of Thailand (การท่องเที่ยวแห่งประเทศไทย) is a state-owned enterprise established on May 4, 1979, under Thailand's Ministry of Tourism and Sports, headquartered in Ratchathewi, Bangkok. Its mandate is to promote Thailand's tourism industry internationally and protect the tourism environment. Its predecessor organization dates to 1924. The authority is best known internationally for its long-running "Amazing Thailand" campaign and operates with an annual budget of approximately 7 billion baht. It is led by a governor appointed by the Thai government.…
China, Malaysia, Thailand
In late October 2023, China's Nanfang Media Group (南方報業傳媒集團) signed strategic cooperation framework agreements with eight media outlets across Thailand and Malaysia — expanding and upgrading a partnership framework the group first established with five Malaysian outlets in October 2021. Three Thai outlets joined for the first time: Asia News Time (亞洲日報), Chinese Headline New Media Thailand, and TAIGUO.COM. The five Malaysian partners from 2021 — Kwong Wah Yit Poh (光華日報), Oriental Daily News (東方日報), United Daily News (聯合日報), The Sun, and Malay Mail — were retained. Under the agre…
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In April 2022, Thai Jiaranai Group (泰國亞洲大衆集團) co-produced and released a Thai tourism promotional music video, Sawasdeeka Bangkok (薩瓦迪卡曼谷), in partnership with the Tourism Authority of Thailand (泰國國家旅遊局), with additional co-producers including SaHa Group (協成昌集團) and Thailand Privilege Card. The song was written and composed by Thai Jiaranai Group chairman Guo Rui (郭蕊) — who has openly said the group's primary mission within Thailand, echoing Xi Jinping, is to "tell China's story well" and "build a correct, positive, and constructive discourse system in the Chinese language" — and vice presi…
China, Taiwan
Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) on July 6, 2016, meeting with Beijing Daily Group president Fu Hua (傅華) and holding a joint working session. The two sides agreed to jointly organize the Second Cross-Strait Media Summit (第二屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) in Beijing later that year, focusing on cross-strait youth exchange and industrial cooperation. Beijing CCP Committee Secretary and Politburo member Guo Jinlong (郭金龍) separately received the Want Want China Times delegation — including Tsai Eng-meng, former Taichung mayor and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang …
China, Taiwan
The Fourth Cross-Strait Media Summit (第四屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing on May 10, 2019, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). Nearly seventy Taiwan media organizations sent representatives, led by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明). CPPCC chairman and Politburo Standing Committee member Wang Yang (汪洋) received the Taiwan delegation in a closed-door session, directing those present that achieving peaceful unification and one country two systems required the efforts of media colleagues, and mocking Taiwan's government as unable to guarantee its situation two years hence. Wang Yang further stated that Taiwan inde…
China, Taiwan
The First Cross-Strait Media Summit (第一屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in late 2015, co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). The summit was the inaugural event in an annual series established under the strategic cooperation agreement the two groups signed in late 2014, providing a recurring institutional framework for bringing Taiwan media executives to Beijing for meetings with senior CCP officials and state media counterparts. The summit series ran annually from 2015, with the exception of 2018, through at least 2019. Want Want China Times Media Group chairman Tsai Eng-meng …
China, Taiwan
Following his acquisition of the China Times Group (中國時報集團) in November 2008, Want Want Group (旺旺集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) met with Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦) director Wang Yi (王毅) in Beijing. According to an account subsequently published in Want Want's internal company newsletter Want Want Monthly (旺旺月刊) and later reported by CommonWealth Magazine (天下雜誌), Tsai told Wang Yi that the acquisition was intended to promote cross-strait relations and that his outlets would follow instructions to report positively on the mainland. Wang Yi expressed the Taiwan Affairs Office's full support for the China Times Group. Th…
China, Taiwan
The Third Cross-Strait Media Summit (第三屆兩岸媒體人北京峰會) was held in Beijing in December 2017, themed around the thirtieth anniversary of cross-strait journalism exchange. Taiwan Affairs Office (國台辦) and Taiwan Work Office of the CCP Central Committee (中共中央台灣工作辦公室) director Zhang Zhijun (張志軍) attended and addressed the gathering. Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) and Want Want China Times Media Group vice chairman Hu Chih-chiang (胡志強) both attended. The summit was co-organized by Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group, as reported by The Ne…
Taiwan
The 2022 Cross-Strait Chinese Character Festival (海峽兩岸漢字節) culminating event was held in Taipei on December 14, 2022. The festival was organized on the mainland side by the Haicang District Propaganda Office of the Chinese Communist Party (中共海滄區委宣傳部), the Haicang District Federation of Literary and Art Circles (海滄區文學藝術界聯合會), and the state-run Xiamen Daily (廈門日報社), published by the CCP Committee in Xiamen, with Taiwan's Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時傳媒集團) serving as the Taiwan co-organizer. The annual character — "thought/longing" (思) — was announced at the Taipei ceremony, selected from more than 14.7 million votes. Excellence M…
China, Taiwan
Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) and Beijing Daily Group (北京日報報業集團) signed a strategic cooperation agreement (戰略合作協議) in late 2014. The agreement established a framework for news exchange and media industry cooperation between the two groups, and provided the organizational basis for the annual Cross-Strait Media Summit (兩岸媒體人北京峰會), a joint media platform the two groups subsequently developed together. The existence of the agreement was reported by The News Lens in 2019, citing China Times coverage of subsequent summit activity.…
China, Taiwan
Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團) and Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) chairman Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明) led a delegation to Beijing in July 2018, visiting several Chinese state media organizations and meeting with Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) chairman Wang Yang (汪洋), a Politburo Standing Committee member and one of the six most senior officials in the CCP hierarchy. The visit was reported by CitiOrange in an April 2019 investigation citing a Reporters Without Borders report on Chinese media expansion. Wang Yang subsequently referenced his meeting with Tsai at…
China, Taiwan
A delegation of ten Taiwan entrepreneurs led by Xu Banghao (徐邦浩), president of Taiwan's Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司), visited Xiamen on August 19–20, 2024, touring cross-strait entrepreneur incubator facilities including Qida Taixiang (啟達台享) and the Haixi MCN Cross-Strait Youth Base (海西MCN兩岸青年三創基地). The base was established in November 2022 under the direction of the Huli District Taiwan-Hong Kong-Macau Affairs Office (湖里區台港澳辦) as an incubator for Taiwan youth in e-commerce and livestreaming,
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West Pacific Press (西太平洋通訊社), or WPP, is a Taipei-registered news agency incorporated on May 4, 2023, under Taiwan's company registry (統編: 94104181), describing itself as "the first and only" Asia-Pacific media platform focused on West Pacific nations. WPP's own website identifies it as a subsidiary of Excellence Media Group (卓越媒體集團). The company was founded by Wei Botao (韋伯韜), a former Republic of China government official who served as Director-General of the Executive Yuan's budget office from June…
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Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), formally Want Want Food Co., Ltd. (旺旺食品股份有限公司), is a Taiwan-founded food and beverage conglomerate whose operations are now concentrated almost entirely in mainland China, where it operates over 100 manufacturing plants and employs more than 60,000 people. Founded in 1962 in Yilan County, Taiwan as I Lan Foods Industrial Co., Ltd. (宜蘭食品工業股份有限公司), the group was taken over in 1976 by Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), who built it into China's largest rice cracker producer. Want Want China Holdings Ltd. (中國旺旺控股有限公司) is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Tsai, who
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Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌) is a Taiwan-based monthly business and finance publication founded in September 1984. The magazine claims a monthly circulation of 50,000 copies and targets middle-class professionals aged 28–50, with a focus on financial, technology, and corporate management readers. Its editorial scope covers business management, economics, politics, health, and environmental topics. The magazine cites multiple Golden Tripod Awards (金鼎獎) in its own promotional materials, referencing the "Government Information O…
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Xiamen Daily (廈門日報) is the official organ of the Xiamen Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)(中共廈門市委機關報). Founded on October 22, 1949, with its masthead calligraphy provided by Shu Tong (舒同), then a standing member and propaganda chief of the CCP East China Bureau, the paper is the sole broadsheet daily of the Xiamen Special Economic Zone. As a municipal party organ, it primarily relays local CCP committee announcements and policy directives, mirroring the People's Daily on central political priorities. The paper suspended publication in 1970 and resumed in 1979, and has historically played a central role in cross-strait messaging given Xiamen's positi…
