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Trung Nguyen Legend Coffee Group

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Trung Nguyen Legend Coffee Group (中原傳奇咖啡集團), formally registered as Trung Nguyen Legend Corporation, is a Vietnamese privately held coffee company headquartered in Ho Chi Minh City. According to the company’s own milestones page, it was founded on June 16, 1996, by Dang Le Nguyen Vu in Buon Ma Thuot, Vietnam’s main coffee-producing city. Multiple industry sources identify Le Hoang Diep Thao as co-founder and co-owner of the group, serving as its executive officer from 1998 to the end of 2014, though her role is largely absent from the company’s own official history. A protracted divorce and asset dispute between the two founders was resolved by Vietnam’s Supreme People’s Court in 2021, awarding Vu approximately 59 percent of combined assets and management rights over the group. The company operates coffee retail chains and a World Coffee Museum in Buon Ma Thuot, and opened its first overseas flagship in Shanghai in 2022. The company’s website presents an unusually messianic corporate philosophy — describing its mission as building “unified humanity” through an “enlightened lifestyle” — language that reflects the chairman’s well-documented turn toward spiritual and philosophical preoccupations following extended meditation retreats beginning in 2013, and which should be read with corresponding skepticism.

Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A.

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Negocios Publicitarios Internacionales S.A. (NEPISA) is a Nicaraguan joint-stock company that formally operates Canal 6 (第六頻道) on behalf of the Ortega government. Although Canal 6 is presented publicly as a state channel, a 2022 investigation by the independent outlet Confidencial found that NEPISA is controlled by two close associates of the presidential family: lawyer José María Enríquez Moncada and Eduardo Germán Morales Cuadra, both of whom appear across a broader network of companies linked to the Ortega-Murillo family. The Nicaraguan presidency has never publicly explained Canal 6’s relationship with NEPISA, though an executive decree has placed the channel under presidential responsibility since 2012. NEPISA is part of a wider pattern of ostensibly private companies used to manage state media assets within Nicaragua’s consolidated, family-controlled media system.

Xiamen Yijia Investment Co., Ltd.

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Xiamen Yijia Investment Co., Ltd. is a private limited liability company founded on November 21, 2019. According to Chinese corporate registry data, the firm operates in real estate leasing, property management, and cross-sector investment. Its portfolio spans digital content and data services, brand management, advertising, e-commerce, entertainment, and cultural media, held through subsidiaries including Yijia (Xiamen) Digital Culture Co., Ltd. (譯迦（廈門）數字文化有限公司) at 51 percent and Xiamen Xingtu Shidai Culture Media Co., Ltd. (廈門市星途時代文化傳媒有限公司), an entertainment-sector firm, at 50 percent.

Yijia (Xiamen) Consulting Management Co., Ltd.

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Yijia (Xiamen) Consulting Management Co., Ltd. is a private limited liability company founded on July 31, 2020, and the parent company of Haixi MCN Cross-Strait Youth Base (海西MCN兩岸青年三創基地). According to Chinese corporate registry data, the company mainly provides information and IT consulting, marketing planning, digital content production, advertising design and distribution, brand management, internet live-streaming services, e-commerce sales, and various equipment and property leasing services. In 2022, the company significantly expanded its business scope to include advertising, live streaming, rental services, and professional training. The firm is majority-owned by Yijia (Xiamen) Digital Culture Co., Ltd. (譯迦（廈門） 數字文化有限公司).

Want Want Holdings

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Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), formally Want Want Food Co., Ltd. (旺旺食品股份有限公司), is a Taiwan-founded food and beverage conglomerate whose operations are now concentrated almost entirely in mainland China, where it operates over 100 manufacturing plants and employs more than 60,000 people. Founded in 1962 in Yilan County, Taiwan as I Lan Foods Industrial Co., Ltd. (宜蘭食品工業股份有限公司), the group was taken over in 1976 by Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), who built it into China’s largest rice cracker producer. Want Want China Holdings Ltd. (中國旺旺控股有限公司) is listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Tsai, who has publicly stated that “unification will happen sooner or later” and lives in Shanghai, diversified the group into media, insurance, hotels, and healthcare. In 2008 he acquired the China Times Group to form the Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團). In June 2025 Taiwan’s Mainland Affairs Council announced an investigation into Want Want for allegedly collaborating with the CCP to host a cross-strait summit at which the group’s general manager described Taiwan as originating in “Chinese Taiwan” and pledged the group’s loyalty to “the motherland.” The group is headquartered at 5F, 72 Xining North Road, Datong District, Taipei.

Rimbunan Hijau Group

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The Rimbunan Hijau Group is a Malaysian multinational logging and diversified conglomerate founded in 1975 by Tan Sri Datuk Tiong Hiew King (張曉卿). Headquartered in Sibu, Sarawak, Malaysia, the group has an estimated annual turnover exceeding US$1 billion and operates across multiple countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Russia, Australia, Canada, China, Hong Kong, Korea, Singapore, and the United States. The company is involved in forestry, oil palm plantations, media, information technology, hospitality, aquaculture, general trading, biotechnology, plastic manufacturing, mining, property development, and human capital development. In Papua New Guinea, Rimbunan Hijau is the largest single logging operator and owns one of the country’s major newspapers, The National, which it established in 1993. The company has faced criticism from environmental groups, with a World Bank report estimating that up to 70 percent of logging in Papua New Guinea is illegal, though the company maintains it operates within legal frameworks.

Vision Group

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The Vision Group, also known as New Vision Printing & Publishing Company Limited, is a multimedia company that opened in Uganda in March 1986, with majority control by the Ugandan government. It publishes the English-language daily New Vision newspaper, alongside local language editions. The company also operates multiple television channels, including Bukedde TV, Urban TV, and TV West, as well as radio stations (XFM and Bukedde FM). The New Vision Group was established under the 1987 Act of Parliament and became a publicly listed company on the Uganda Securities Exchange in November 2004, trading under the symbol NVL. The Ugandan government maintains majority control with a 53.3 percent shareholding. The company has ties to Chinese media through various partnerships, including a media partnership with China Broadcasting International Economic and Technical Cooperation Co., Ltd since 2024 for broadcasting Chinese content, and content-sharing initiatives, including essay competitions such as “My China Story” that encourage participation within prescribed party-state narrative frameworks, essentially harnessing private storytelling for state messaging.

Atlanis

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Atlanis is an Italian business services company operating in marketing, events, publishing, cybersecurity, real estate, and charity sectors. The company, established in March 2021 by entrepreneur Andrea Di Maso, has six business units, including the digital magazine Italia News Online and the publishing arm Fragola Edizioni, as well as Fragola Company (marketing and communications), Fragola Records (music label), and the Festival del Cuore charity event.

London Tech Week

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London Tech Week is an annual technology festival co-founded in 2014 by Founders Forum LLP, in partnership with Informa Festivals. Held each June in London, the festival brings together entrepreneurs, investors, corporate leaders, and innovators from across the world for conferences, showcases, workshops, and networking events spanning the full technology ecosystem. The London Tech Week brand is owned by Informa Ltd. Its annual programme addresses emerging themes across the technology sector, including applied AI, enterprise resilience, deeptech, and quantum computing.