Grupo Globo, formerly known as Organizações Globo, is a Brazilian private media and communications conglomerate headquartered in Rio de Janeiro. It was founded in 1925 by journalist Irineu Marinho with the launch of the newspaper O Globo. Its major subsidiaries include TV, editorial, and venture capital projects.
The Zambia Daily Mail is a state-owned English-language daily broadsheet newspaper published in Lusaka, Zambia, wholly owned by the Government of the Republic of Zambia and incorporated under the Companies Act (Cap. 388) of the Laws of Zambia. Its history traces to February 23, 1960, when the first edition of the African Mail was published in Northern Rhodesia as an independent weekly pro-independence newspaper; it was renamed the Central African Mail in 1962. In 1965, the newly independent Zambian government acquired the paper from its private owners — majority shareholder David Astor among them — renaming it the Zambian Mail and subsequently expanding it into a daily publication renamed the Zambia Daily Mail in 1970, at which point it was instructed to become an “instrument in nation building.” The paper also publishes the Sunday Mail. It is one of two state-owned daily newspapers in Zambia, alongside the Times of Zambia, and both fall within the supervisory portfolio of the Ministry of Information and Media. In 2021, the Media Institute of Southern Africa called for the need to “reform government-owned publications such as the Daily Mail” so that they reflect the diverse views of all Zambians — reflecting longstanding concerns about the paper’s editorial independence.
The Greece-China Association (Σύνδεσμος Ελλάδας-Κίνας), founded in 1956 and based in Athens, presents itself as a non-profit that promotes friendly, cultural, and economic relations between Greece and China. It was originally established as the “Union of Friends of New China” (Ένωσις Φίλων της Νέας Κίνας) by Nicolas Kitskis, then dean of the National Technical University of Athens and a member of parliament, and his wife Beata Kitskis, following a visit to China in September 1956. Its activities include Chinese-language classes, HSK examination administration, Chinese New Year celebrations, and organized tours to China for Greek students. The association designates the Chinese ambassador to Greece as an honorary chair and has ties with the Chinese Embassy in Athens. Its annual Chinese New Year dinner is held “under the auspices of the Embassy of China in Greece.” In 2013, the Chinese Ambassador to Greece personally opened the dinner. In May 2025, the association co-supported the Athens Cooperation Forum at Zappeion Hall, hosted by Xinhua alongside the Chinese Embassy.
The Ministry of Information and Media is the Zambian government ministry responsible for broadcasting and television services, information and media policy, and information services. Its mandate, as prescribed in Government Gazette Notice No. 1123 of 2021, covers the implementation of broadcasting and television services, information services, and information and media policy, as well as supervision of the following statutory bodies and institutions: the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA), the Times of Zambia, Times Printpak Zambia Limited, the Zambia Daily Mail, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation (ZNBC), the Zambia Printing Company (ZPC), and the Zambia Institute of Mass Communication (ZAMCOM) Education Trust. The ministry is also charged with formulating and administering policies relating to media and regulating the activities of media houses and outlets. Under the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Act of 1987 and its successor, the Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation Act, 2025 (Act No. 26 of 2025), the minister holds the power to appoint all members of the ZNBC board. The ministry was renamed from the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting Services following the August 2021 general elections, with the realignment approved by the National Assembly as required by the Constitution; the rename also resulted in the transfer of the cinematography and theatre portfolios to other line ministries. The ministry is headquartered at the New Government Complex in Lusaka.
The Mozambique News Agency (莫桑比克通訊社), known by its Portuguese acronym AIM, is Mozambique’s state news agency, headquartered in Maputo. Established by Decree No. 119/75 of November 22, 1975 following Mozambique’s independence, AIM is defined in law as a state institution with legal personality and administrative autonomy. The agency is a member of the Alliance of Portuguese-Language News Agencies and publishes news bulletins in Portuguese and English on a daily basis.
The Centre culturel de Chine à Paris (Paris China Cultural Center) is a Chinese cultural institution in France that China’s Ministry of Culture and Tourism has described as part of a network that is described by as an ‘official non-profit cultural institution dispatched by the Chinese government,’ whose mission is to promote Chinese culture abroad. Inaugurated on November 29, 2002, as the first such center in a Western country, it was jointly opened by then-Vice Premier of the State Council Li Lanqing (李嵐清) and former French Minister of Overseas Affairs Bridget Girardin. The center hosts exhibitions, film screenings, language courses, and seasonal festivals. In its “About Us” page, the Center says its mission is “telling China’s story well” (講好中國故事) and presenting a “trustworthy, lovable and respectable” image of China — standard party-state language that highlights Xi Jinping’s directive that media and cultural institutions must work internationally to strengthen external propaganda. Unlike similar centers such as Germany’s Goethe-Institut, which is registered as a politically independent association, or the British Council, which operates under an independent Board of Trustees at arm’s length from the UK government, the Paris center operates under direct ministerial authority with no independent governing body.
The French Ministry of Culture (Ministère de la Culture) is the government ministry responsible for national museums, historic monuments, the national archives, and the promotion of the arts in France — covering also the performing arts, visual arts, cinema, and audiovisual production. It operates a national network of museums, regional cultural centers (maisons de culture), and archive sites. The Ministry defines, coordinates, and evaluates government policy on the performing and visual arts, conducts the government’s media policy and participates alongside other relevant bodies in implementing government policy on communications technology, media, and the internet.
Les Amis de Wu Jianmin is a Paris-based cultural association, founded in 2017 in memory of Wu Jianmin (吳建民), who served as Chinese Ambassador to France from 1998 to 2003 and died in a road accident in Wuhan in June 2016. The association promoted Sino-French bilateral exchanges through an annual scholarship that apparently ran annually from 2017 to 2019, sending French students and researchers on two-week trips to China. The association also organizes public events in Paris, including educational forums and culture and tourism dialogues. The association co-organized an event with the China International Communications Group (中國國際傳播集團), a body under the direct supervision of the CCP’s Central Propaganda Department, in April 2026.
The Pu’er Municipal Committee of the Chinese Communist Party (中國共產黨普洱市委員會) is the leading political organ of the Chinese Communist Party in Pu’er (普洱), a prefecture-level city in southern Yunnan Province. As with all municipal-level party committees in China, it exercises authority over local governance, personnel appointments, economic planning, and ideological work within its jurisdiction, operating above — and directing — the Pu’er Municipal People’s Government. The city was known as Simao (思茅) from 1950 — following the Communist victory in the Chinese Civil War — until January 2007, when China’s State Council approved its renaming to Pu’er. According to China’s Seventh National Population Census conducted in November 2020, the city had a permanent resident population of approximately 2.4 million. Pu’er is predominantly known as a major production center for Pu’er tea (普洱茶) and as the source of the overwhelming majority of China’s domestically grown arabica coffee — with the US Department of Agriculture recording that 99 percent of China’s arabica output originated from the Pu’er region in 2020–21.