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Nanfang Media Group Expands Partnership to Thailand and Malaysia
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 agreements, GDToday, Nanfang Media Group’s international platform, will conduct joint interviews and content production framed explicitly around Belt and Road Initiative messaging, ASEAN cooperation narratives, and promotion of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) — Beijing’s flagship strategy to economically and politically integrate Hong Kong and Macao with the mainland by binding them into a single high-tech manufacturing and financial hub anchored in Guangdong province.
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