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Entity Type: Domestic Media Company

InfoQuest

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InfoQuest is a media intelligence company and news agency, established in 1990 by founder and chairman Jalthong Patamapongs, a former executive at Thomson Reuters Thailand who previously led Thailand’s Agricultural Futures Exchange. The company offers media monitoring solutions across social, online, and traditional media platforms from thousands of domestic and international sources, alongside press release distribution services to local and global media outlets. InfoQuest operates a real-time news agency reporting on stock markets, finance, economics, investments, and world news. In 2021 the company was acquired by Dataxet, an integrated data intelligence holding company.

Dataxet

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Dataxet is a regional media intelligence holding founded in 2020 by a group of entrepreneurs and headquartered in Singapore. The company provides AI-powered integrated platforms and insight solutions for marketing and public relations professionals across Southeast Asia. The company operates under the brand Dataxet with its DXT360 platform offering social listening — software that tracks and analyzes online conversations about brands, industries, and competitors — alongside media monitoring and analytics services. Dataxet has signed a cooperation agreement with China’s state news agency Xinhua News Agency and its affiliate China Economic Information Service (中國經濟信息社), or CEIS, to market the Xinhua Silk Road Information Service to Thai businesses, which Dataxet describes as providing “high-quality business and financial information related to the Belt and Road Initiatives.” Dataxet is also a partner of Xinhuathai.com, Xinhua’s Thai-language platform. 

Les Échos

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Les Échos was founded in 1908 by brothers Émile and Robert Servan-Schreiber, initially named Les Échos de l’Exportation to promote their family’s hardware export business. The newspaper covers French and international economic and financial news, stock market analysis, and trends in high-tech development, with sections including “Ideas” and “Debates” that provide platforms for commentary and discussion. It began as a monthly publication, was renamed Les Échos in 1928, becoming a daily newspaper. The family-led luxury products group LVMH Group currently owns the paper, which maintains both print and digital editions. 

Le Monde Group

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Groupe Le Monde, or Le Monde Group, is a French mass media company that publishes the daily newspaper Le Monde and was founded in 2000. Headquartered in Paris, the group comprises six media outlets, including the internationally recognized Le Monde, which also publishes the monthly Le Monde Diplomatique, as well as Courrier International, Télérama, La Vie, and HuffPost.   

Agence France-Presse

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Agence France-Presse (AFP) is a global news agency providing fast, comprehensive and verified coverage of world events and daily life issues. Drawing from a newsgathering network across 150 countries, AFP has developed a strong digital verification operation. With 2,600 staff representing 100 nationalities, the agency covers news in six languages through multimedia storytelling spanning video, text, photos and graphics. As one of three major international news agencies (after Reuters and the Associated Press) and the only European one, AFP serves media outlets, digital platforms, companies and institutions worldwide and has won numerous awards throughout its history.

Le Monde Diplomatique

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Le Monde Diplomatique is a monthly newspaper founded in 1954 by Hubert Beuve-Méry. The publication offers analysis and opinion on international politics, culture, and current affairs. According to its website, as of 2025, Le Monde Diplomatique operates a network of 35 partner publications that publish all or part of its content each month in 27 languages worldwide, including a Chinese edition produced in partnership with the Paris Institute of Intercultural Management and Communication (ISIT).

Media Group

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Media Group is an Indonesian media and business conglomerate founded in 1978. The company operates Media Group Network, which encompasses television channel Metro TV, newspaper Media Indonesia, news portal Medcom.id, providing news and entertainment content across Indonesia. Beyond media, the conglomerate has expanded into food industry services, as well as hospitality ventures. 

Karangkraf Group

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The Karangkraf Group is a Malaysian media conglomerate established in 1978 that has expanded over five decades from a small publishing house into a diversified media company. The group operates multiple subsidiaries, including the newspapers Sinar Harian and Sinar Daily. 

BFM TV

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BFM TV, whose full name stands for Business FM (originally Business TV), is a French news television and radio network that provides continuous live and on-demand coverage across multiple platforms, focusing on news, economy, sports, technology, travel, music, and culture. Based in Paris, the channel was founded in 2005 and operates as a division of CMA CGM Group, the world’s third-largest shipping company, which acquired the network in 2024.