The World News (菲律賓世界日報) is a Chinese-language daily broadsheet based in Binondo, Manila, and the Philippines’ largest Chinese-language newspaper by circulation. Founded on June 1, 1981, by businessmen Wu Yongyuan (吳永源) and Florencio Tan Mallare (陳華岳), the paper covers Philippine domestic and international news, Chinese community affairs, business, and cross-strait issues, publishing daily across sections including national news, economic news, Hong Kong-Macau-Taiwan news, diaspora community news, and editorials. The newspaper is a member of the Global Chinese Media Cooperative Union (全球華文媒體合作聯盟), an organization operated by the official newswire China News Service (中國新聞社) — which is under the Chinese Communist Party’s United Front Work Department. Wu Zhongzhen (吳仲振) is the current publisher as of March 2026. Wu Zhongzhen was among the recipients of the Chinese Embassy in Manila’s 2022 “Friends of the Embassy” awards, and his GCMCU profile lists “promoting Philippines-China friendly relations” (推動菲中友好關係) as one of the pillars of the newspaper’s success. In a 2022 piece published on Fujian provincial news portal FJsen (东南网), Wu describes the newspaper’s mission in terms of promoting China-Philippines friendship, telling China’s story abroad, and “spreading the strong voice of Fujian” (传播福建强音); he then continues saying that that The World News has always supported the development of the “ancestral country” (祖籍国). In January 2026, newly appointed Chinese Ambassador Jing Quan (井泉) met with executives from eight Philippine Chinese-language media outlets, urging them to “cooperate closely with the Embassy” and “carry forward the tradition of patriotism and love for the homeland.” The case became a point of controversy in the Philippines and globally,  reported by the independent outlet Rappler and documented in a highly critical report by the US-based SeaLight Foundation. A Xinhua article published in 2015 via PhilStar, the website of English-language Philippine Star newspaper, described The World News as “the favorite newspaper of pro-China organizations in the Philippines, such as the Filipino Chinese Amity Club under the Federation of Filipino Chinese Chambers of Commerce and Industry” (菲華商聯總會). Before 2015, PhilStar appears to have regularly run such news copy directly from Xinhua, China’s official state news agency. The outlet now has a dedicated “Influence Operations” section, with regular coverage of campaigns in the region by China, Russia and other actors.