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China Greece Times

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The China Greece Times (中希时报), established in January 2005 by Zhejiang trader Wu Hailong (吳海龍) along with Jiangsu native Wang Peng (汪鹏), is a weekly Chinese community newspaper in Athens with a circulation of 3,000 free copies distributed primarily in Athens’ Chinatown area. The bilingual publication includes 24 Chinese pages and 8 Greek pages, serving Greece’s overseas Chinese community and local Greek readers. The newspaper maintains content-sharing agreements with Chinese state media outlets, including People’s Daily and Xinhua News Agency, as documented in the outlet’s own timeline showing formal partnerships established in 2005 with Xinhua and 2009 with People’s Daily. Such arrangements are part of broader Chinese state media efforts that have involved providing free content to international publications. But there are clear indications that the China Greece Times is in fact a front for the Chinese government. The paper, which operates the site China-Greece Online (希中網), claims support from the Chinese Embassy in Greece. But its dedicated news app, launched sometime after 2020, provides a contact e-mail from the official China News Service (CNS), the newswire directly under the CCP’s United Front Work Department. Wang Peng is also the chairman of the Greece-China Alliance for the Promotion of Peaceful National Reunification (希臘中國和平統一促進會), an organization linked to the UFWD. The publication has expanded its Greek-language content since 2015, which the outlet describes as aimed at “showing Greek society a constantly changing China.”

El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V.

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El Diario Nacional S.A. de C.V. (國家日報股份有限公司) is a Salvadoran commercial corporation established on March 3, 2020, to serve as the legal and administrative vehicle for the state-run newspaper, Diario El Salvador. The company was incorporated by subsidiaries of the Rio Lempa Executive Hydroelectric Commission (CEL), specifically Perforadora Santa Bárbara (99 percent shareholder) and the Compañía de Luz Eléctrica de Ahuachapán (1 percent shareholder). By utilizing a private corporate structure under the umbrella of state-owned energy entities, the firm operates with the commercial flexibility of a private business while being sustained by public resources and government advertising contracts. It is headquartered within the CEL facilities in San Salvador and serves as the primary entity for formalizing international media partnerships, including content-sharing frameworks with the PRC’s Xinhua News Agency.

El Comercio

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El Comercio, founded in May 1839, stands as Peru’s oldest newspaper and one of the oldest Spanish-language publications worldwide. The Lima-based daily was established by José Manuel Amunátegui y Muñoz and Alejandro Villota, but ownership passed to the influential Miró Quesada family in 1876 following the War of the Pacific. The newspaper survived a four-year closure during Chilean occupation (1879-1883) and later endured six years of military expropriation under Juan Velasco Alvarado’s regime (1974-1980). El Comercio maintains a circulation exceeding 100,000 and is characterized as conservative in its editorial outlook and oriented toward business interests. Elisabeth Dulanto Baquerizo de Miró Quesada, a family member who owns El Comercio Group, signed the Madrid Charter and has helped organize events for the anti-leftist Madrid Forum, established by Spain’s far-right Vox party.

Yanolja

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Founded in 2005, Yanolja is a global travel technology company that provides cloud-based software and operates a distribution platform connecting hotels, airlines, and car rentals with sales channels worldwide. The company says that it uses artificial intelligence and data-driven solutions to help travelers with their booking plans.

Media Center “Mutavari”

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Media Center “Mutavari” is a Georgian media organization founded and led by Catherine Gulua, who serves as general manager and editor-in-chief. Gulua is a veteran journalist with approximately 20 years of experience in news reporting, investigative journalism, and media training. She graduated from Tbilisi Ivane Javakhishvili State University with degrees in history and arts/humanities. Gulua has participated in numerous international programs, including U.S. State Department initiatives on trafficking in persons, NATO information programs, and training with Reuters Foundation and the International Center for Journalists in Washington, D.C. She has also completed programs on government monitoring, reproductive health reporting, and anti-corruption journalism through organizations including the Polish-Czech-Slovak Solidarity Foundation and Population Reference Bureau. Gulua has made multiple documented visits to China since 2023 as part of government-sponsored journalist tours.

Chinese Commercial News

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The Chinese Commercial News was established in October 1919 as the “Overseas Chinese Commercial News” (華僑商報), a monthly newsletter of the Manila Chinese Chamber of Commerce under editor Yu Yi Tung (于以同), before becoming a daily newspaper in April 1922. The daily broadsheet, headquartered in Manila’s Binondo district, publishes in multiple languages, including Chinese, English, Hokkien (閩南語), and Filipino. During World War II, publisher Yu Yi Tung refused Japanese demands to use the paper as a propaganda organ and paid with his life, leading to closure and confiscation until the paper resumed publication on April 15, 1945. The newspaper was again closed during martial law from September 21, 1972, until resuming on June 12, 1986, after the People Power Revolution, the largely nonviolent popular uprising in the Philippines in February 1986 that ousted President Ferdinand Marcos after 20 years of authoritarian rule. It covers Philippine news, economic affairs, and Filipino-Chinese community life alongside a dedicated “China News” (中國新聞) section that draws heavily on Chinese state media content. The paper lists among its key partners the China News Service, or CNS (中國新聞社), a state news agency under the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department (UFWD), as well as CNS-linked ChinaQW (中國僑網) and Hong Kong’s Wen Wei Po (文匯報). The mobile app for the Chinese Commercial News on Google Play uses a support email on the chinanews.com.cn domain, the official CNS website. The paper’s website also republishes CNS wire content. In August 2022, the Chinese Embassy in Manila confirmed that the paper was among 15 media outlets whose representatives met CCP International Liaison Department (中共中央對外聯絡部) head Liu Jianchao (劉建超), who called on media to “strengthen exchange and cooperation” (加強交流合作) to advance bilateral relations.

Malay Mail

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The Malay Mail, Malaysia’s oldest English-language newspaper, was first published on December 1, 1896, when Kuala Lumpur served as the capital of the newly established Federated Malay States. Originally founded as a four-page publication by former civil servant JHM Robson, the newspaper became the first daily newspaper to appear in the Federated Malay States. After 122 years of print operations, the Malay Mail ceased its print edition on December 1, 2018, and transitioned to become a fully digital news portal. The publication, which once operated under the tagline “The Paper That Cares,” now focuses on providing local and international news coverage through its digital platform. Currently owned by Malay Mail Sdn. Bhd under Ancom Berhad, the publication is led by Dato’ Siew Ka Wei as publisher, with an editorial team including managing editor Leslie Lau and executive editor Joan Lau.

Polish Television

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Polish Television (波蘭國家電視台), known as Telewizja Polska or TVP, is Poland’s public service broadcaster established in 1952 as the country’s oldest and largest television network. The state-owned corporation previously operated under the Ministry of State Treasury of Poland, but since the ministry’s dissolution in 2017 has been overseen by the Ministry of Culture and National Heritage (Ministerstwo Kultury i Dziedzictwa Narodowego). According to its statutory mission defined by Poland’s Broadcasting Act, TVP is obligated to implement “a public mission by offering various programs and other services in the field of information, journalism, culture, entertainment, education and sport, characterized by pluralism, impartiality, balance and independence.” After 2015, TVP was criticized by international observers for becoming a vehicle for the ruling Law and Justice party.

United News of Bangladesh

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United News of Bangladesh (UNB) is Bangladesh’s first fully digitalized private wire service, founded in 1988 as one of the first news agencies in South Asia. The organization claims to maintain correspondent networks across all 64 districts of Bangladesh and says it serves “over 20 million readers” locally and internationally through its principal partnership with Associated Press (AP), the world’s largest wire service. Originally serving print media subscribers, UNB has adapted to digital transformation by launching its interactive website unb.com.bd, which aggregates both domestic news from its extensive Bangladesh network and international content through its AP partnership. The agency describes itself as Bangladesh’s “most dependable and credible source of news and information,” evolving from traditional print distribution to embrace mobile and internet platforms as electronic media revolutionizes news creation and distribution in an increasingly paperless media environment.