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Sichuan International Communication Center

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The Sichuan International Communication Center, established in March 2022 by the Sichuan Daily Press Group (四川日報報業集團), describes itself as a provincial hub for international media outreach. Officials say the center “covers more than 20 million overseas users” and operates what they call their “flagship video platform” (旗艦視頻平台) “Inspiration China” (灵感中国). The center says it focuses on distributing content about Sichuan culture, tourism, cuisine, gaming, and traditional medicine through what it terms “multi-modal, lightweight video products” (多模態、輕量化視頻). Officials claim the center has developed partnerships with “over 500 international content creators” and “more than 50 international organizations.”

Radio Cooperativa

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Radio Cooperativa, founded on February 17, 1935, and headquartered in Santiago, Chile, is a news radio station operated by Compañía Chilena de Comunicaciones S.A. The station gained prominence for opposing the Augusto Pinochet dictatorship (1973-1990) and denouncing its human rights violations at a time when such reports were federally suppressed. The broadcaster, which maintains historic ties to Chile’s Christian Democratic Party, operates on AM frequencies 660 and 1140/1150 kHz. 

Matichon

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Matichon is a major Thai-language daily newspaper founded by progressive writers in 1978, when Thailand was emerging from authoritarian rule following the October 6, 1976 Massacre. The newspaper positions itself as a quality, upmarket publication with a strong focus on politics, distinguishing itself from sensationalist mass-circulation papers. With a circulation of approximately 120,000 in 1997, Matichon became one of Thailand’s most politically influential newspapers alongside Thai Rath. Since the late 2000s, the publication has faced criticism for alleged pro-Red Shirt bias and controversies regarding editor dismissals and a bribery investigation by the National Press Council of Thailand, for which the paper resigned from the council in protest. The newspaper is owned by Matichon Public Company Limited and operates within the larger Matichon Group, which includes sister publications Khaosod and Prachachat Business. The company maintains both print and online operations, with Matichon Online having a separate editorial board from the print edition.

Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha

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Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha (BSS), the country’s national news agency, was launched on January 1, 1972. The Dhaka bureau of the Associated Press of Pakistan was turned into the national news agency of the new country following the Bangladesh Liberation War. Beginning with a small staff in the head office in Dhaka and a bureau in Chittagong, BSS now has bureaus in Rajshahi, Rangpur, Bagura, Khulna, Barishal, Rangamati, and Sylhet, with correspondents in all 64 administrative districts. The agency functions almost around the clock to disseminate national, international, political, economic, development, and other news to nearly 50 subscribers across the country. BSS subscribes to international wire services AFP and exchanges news with Press Trust of India, Associated Press of Pakistan, Xinhua, Bernama of Malaysia, and TransData of Australia, and introduced a Bangla news service in 1999.

Sing Sian Yer Pao

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The Sing Sian Yer Pao, also known as The Sing Sian Yer Pao Daily News, is a Chinese-language newspaper based in Bangkok, Thailand, founded on June 23, 1950. Originally published in traditional Chinese characters, it switched to simplified Chinese after 2010. In November 2013, the newspaper formed a partnership with China’s Southern Media Group. As of February 2016, the paper was priced at 5 baht in Bangkok and 6 baht elsewhere in Thailand. The newspaper operates from its headquarters on Silom Road in Bangkok’s Samphanthawong district, continuing its long tradition of serving Thailand’s Chinese-language readers.

Spanish Ministry of Culture

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Spain’s Ministry of Culture is the governmental body responsible for promoting and safeguarding the nation’s cultural assets. Its responsibilities encompass the preservation of historical heritage, oversight of museums and archives, and support for the arts, literature, cinema, audiovisual media, and libraries. Created in May 1977 through Royal Decree 1558/1977 during Spain’s transition to democracy, the ministry is meant to advance Spanish-language culture on the world stage.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Sri Lanka Mirror

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Sri Lanka Mirror is a Colombo-based bilingual news website founded in November 2010. It describes itself as “a reliable, unbiased and reputed news company” dedicated to reporting news in Sri Lanka “in an unbiased manner,” and says its website is registered with Sri Lanka’s Ministry of Mass Media. The outlet covers local and foreign news, arts, features, sports, and business, and operates under the tagline “Right To Know, Power To Change.” In April 2025, Sri Lanka Mirror launched a dedicated channel for Let’s Meet, an English-language program produced by Chongqing’s Western International Communication Center (西部国际传播中心), or WICC, becoming, according to iChongqing, the first overseas “station” of the WICC’s Let’s Meet Online TV platform. The WICC is an international communication center, or ICC, a type of state-run propaganda center established under local and provincial CCP authorities across China as part of a centrally directed campaign under Xi Jinping since 2021 to boost China’s global messaging. WICC operates under the Chongqing municipal government.

Bangkok Post

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The Bangkok Post, founded on August 1, 1946, is Thailand’s oldest English-language newspaper still in publication. Published in broadsheet and digital formats, it maintains a daily circulation of 110,000 copies with 80 percent distributed in Bangkok. The newspaper was established by former OSS officer Alexander MacDonald and Thai associate Prasit Lulitanond (ประสิทธิ์ ลุลิตานนท์), initially selling for one baht per four-page issue. Now owned by Bangkok Post Public Company Limited (SET: POST), whose major shareholders include the Chirathivat family, South China Morning Post, and GMM Grammy, the publication employs journalists, including foreign nationals. The Bangkok Post is widely considered Thailand’s newspaper of record and portrays itself as comparatively free in a country where media censorship is common, though critics have noted instances of self-censorship on sensitive topics. The South China Morning Post, founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai (謝纘泰) and Alfred Cunningham, was acquired by Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group (阿里巴巴集團) in 2015 for $266 million.

Convergence Media Group

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Convergence Media Group (匯流傳媒集團), also known as CMG, is a Taipei-based digital media and data analytics group founded in 2016 by Wu Shih-chang (吳世昌), who serves as chair. Its core outlet is CNEWS (匯流新聞網), a digital news portal covering politics, technology, healthcare, finance, and cross-strait affairs. According to the group’s corporate profile, CMG integrates news production, public opinion polling, big data analytics, video production, and integrated marketing under a single structure, describing itself as one of the few Taiwan-based digital media groups to combine these functions. Subsidiaries include Trend Opinion Poll (趨勢民意調查), Taiwan Survey Network (臺灣調查網), Lowi AI Big Data (Lowi AI 大數據輿情平台), and Milestones International (脈動國際). The group claims to operate Taiwan’s largest telephone survey call center, with 170 workstations across facilities in Taipei and Taichung. In January 2025, Wu gave an exclusive interview to the China Review News Agency (中國評論通訊社), or CRNTT, a Hong Kong-based news agency that, according to its own about page, was established in 1997 under the personal guidance of Wang Daohan (汪道涵), then-chairman of the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits (海峽兩岸關係協會), or ARATS, the PRC-backed quasi-governmental body that serves as Beijing’s designated counterpart to Taiwan’s Straits Exchange Foundation (海峽兩岸關係基金會), or SEF, in cross-strait functional dealings.