Parlamentní Listy (议会报) is a Czech online news and commentary portal established in 2008, operated since 2023 by NAŠE MÉDIA a.s. and headquartered in Prague. The publication positions itself as a discussion, news and commentary platform but has been described by critics as a disinformation medium with no institutional connection to the Czech Parliament despite its name. According to organizational listings, leadership has included Jan Holoubek as director and Marek Bláha as editor-in-chief. The platform claims to provide elected representatives with individual profiles to publish views without editorial intervention and describes its journalistic section as supplementary. Critics have accused the publication of spreading pro-Russian propaganda and manipulative content, while supporters describe it as providing alternative perspectives in contrast to mainstream media coverage.
Svenska Dagbladet (SvD) is a Swedish daily newspaper founded on December 18, 1884, in Stockholm. Originally acquired by Norwegian media company Schibsted in 1998, SvD became part of Schibsted Media Group after Schibsted’s news operations were transferred in 2024 to the Tinius Trust, which manages the Schibsted shares in SvD. Svenska Dagbladet covers politics, economics, and business, and also features commentary and opinion journalism — including cultural reviews under its “SvD Kultur” section and public affairs debate under “SvD Debatt.”
The Schibsted Media Group is a Norwegian media company founded in 1839 in Oslo, Norway. Originally a publishing house, it has developed into one of the largest media groups in the Nordic region, with operations spanning newspapers, online classifieds, and digital services across multiple countries. In 2024, the company split its media operations into a separate foundation-owned entity, Schibsted Media Group, while the marketplaces arm — now Vend Marketplaces ASA — remains listed on the Oslo Stock Exchange. In February 2025, Schibsted Media Group announced a partnership with OpenAI to integrate content from these publications into OpenAI’s products, including ChatGPT, delivering news summaries with attribution to Schibsted’s brands.
Asia News Time is a Chinese-language daily newspaper founded on August 28, 1993, in Bangkok. At the time of its founding it was Thailand’s sixth Chinese-language daily. It is distributed across Southeast Asia and globally. The paper serves Thailand’s ethnic Chinese community. According to its Baidu profile — whose original source links are broken — the paper has also served as an in-flight publication for Bangkok Airways. The paper describes itself as having been established by “patriotic overseas Chinese investors” — language that suggests the potential for political alignment with China that could impact editorial independence. The paper’s ties with China are well-documented. Since August 2006 it has co-distributed the People’s Daily Overseas Edition (人民日報海外版) in Thailand, with a formal launch ceremony attended by then-caretaker prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra. In 2008 it served as a designated cooperation partner for that edition’s Olympic coverage. The paper has also served as a direct publication platform for official PRC diplomatic messaging. In June 2025, China’s ambassador to Thailand, Han Zhiqiang (韓志強), published an open letter to overseas Chinese through its pages.
Thai Jiaranai Group Public Company Limited (泰國亞洲大衆集團（大衆）有限公司) is a Bangkok-headquartered conglomerate with branch offices and representative offices in Beijing, Shantou, Hong Kong, and Singapore. It is the parent company of Thailand Headlines (泰國頭條新聞) — which describes itself as an outlet devoted to “telling China’s story,” an official CCP phrase for external propaganda — and describes itself as one of Thailand’s most influential ethnic Chinese business groups, claiming repeated commendation from Thailand’s Privy Council and designation as an official cooperation partner of multiple Thai government departments and state institutions. Its leadership, according to its own materials, has been received by senior officials on both the Chinese and Thai sides. In its corporate mission, the group describes following the principle of “transmitting positive energy” (a clear reference to Xi Jinping’s media control language). The group operates across media, commercial trade, event planning, real estate, cross-border e-commerce, program production, and charitable activities. Its media portfolio includes Thailand Headlines (泰國頭條新聞), ManGu Magazine (曼谷雜誌), and Thailand Diligence Bureau (泰國勤報局), with a claimed combined following across platforms exceeding ten million. In May 2023, Thailand Headlines publisher Guo Rui was arrested by Thai police on allegations of using her connections with a senior police official to demand 14 million baht from a Chinese suspect in exchange for dropping charges. She was released on bail. A earlier 2020 article on China Daily‘s website, republished from a provincial broadcaster, identified Zhang Cheng (章骋), also known as Zhang Peiyan (章培炎), as both chairman of CITIC Asia Investment International Co., Ltd. in Thailand (泰國中信亞洲投資國際有限公司) and a senior executive director of Thai Jiaranai Group. This would appear to link the Thai Jiaranai Group and China’s CITIC, one of the country’s largest state-owned conglomerates. However, a critical online post made to Blogspot in May 2015, which has since been deleted, alleged a broader pattern of fabricated institutional affiliations by Zhang — including falsely claiming to represent Alibaba in Thailand (“阿里巴巴集團在泰全權代理人”) and falsely presenting the group as embassy-affiliated (“冒充大使館”). This raises unanswered questions about the nature of the Thai Jiaranai Group’s connections with China. The Thai Jiaranai Group also operates Black Gold Entertainment (墨金娛樂), described as Thailand’s largest Sino-Thai cross-border multi-channel network, managing influencers and online celebrities for advertising and livestream commerce. The group additionally serves as the largest agent in Greater China for the Thailand Privilege Visa Program, and runs a real estate division.
West Pacific Press (西太平洋通訊社), or WPP, is a Taipei-registered news agency incorporated on May 4, 2023, under Taiwan’s company registry (統編: 94104181), describing itself as “the first and only” Asia-Pacific media platform focused on West Pacific nations. WPP’s own website identifies it as a subsidiary of Excellence Media Group (卓越媒體集團). The company was founded by Wei Botao (韋伯韜), a former Republic of China government official who served as Director-General of the Executive Yuan’s budget office from June 10, 1996 to May 20, 2000, and chairman of Taiwan Tobacco and Liquor Corporation, and who has a documented history of cross-strait business engagement with Xiamen — including a 2011 meeting with Xiamen Mayor Liu Keqing (劉可清) to discuss establishing a joint venture financial company in the city’s Cross-Strait Financial Center. Wei’s published writing includes explicit advocacy for PRC geopolitical superiority, arguing that China practices a benevolent “kingly way” (王道) in world affairs. Xu Banghao (徐邦浩), president of Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌) and head of Excellence Media Group, became WPP’s chairman and responsible person in September 2024 following an internal restructuring. Despite its ambitious self-description, WPP’s paid-in capital stands at just NT$325,000 and its registered address is shared by over 100 other companies — a common virtual office arrangement in Taiwan that raises questions about the company’s physical infrastructure, though WPP may operate from a separate location not reflected in its corporate registration. Alongside Taiwan defense and security reporting, WPP’s lifestyle section carries content sourced directly from the Fujian Southeast Network (福建東南網), a Fujian provincial state media outlet, including multiple items about Xiamen’s Huli District, alongside unedited commercial press releases accepted as editorial content. WPP signed media cooperation agreements with Korean outlets Korea Focus and Korea Daily in 2019.
Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌) is a Taiwan-based monthly business and finance publication founded in September 1984. The magazine claims a monthly circulation of 50,000 copies and targets middle-class professionals aged 28–50, with a focus on financial, technology, and corporate management readers. Its editorial scope covers business management, economics, politics, health, and environmental topics. The magazine cites multiple Golden Tripod Awards (金鼎獎) in its own promotional materials, referencing the “Government Information Office’s Golden Tripod Awards” — suggesting that if such honors were received, they date to before 2012, when the Government Information Office (新聞局) was abolished and administration of the award passed to the Ministry of Culture (文化部). The magazine does not appear in published winner lists for any year where records are available. The current corporate parent, Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司), was incorporated in 2019; no publicly documented connection between the current entity and the magazine’s original ownership structure is established in available public records. The magazine’s content, as visible on its website, consists primarily of advertorial features on corporate clients and local government initiatives, alongside aggregated commentary on financial and geopolitical topics attributed to its editorial department, with limited evidence of serious reporting. The magazine is currently led by president Xu Banghao (徐邦浩) and has since 2019 maintained a dedicated Korea news section (臺韓快訊) and pursued media partnerships in Seoul, including a memorandum of understanding with South Korea’s Applemedia Group, whose representative director Kim Hong-gi (金洪基) explicitly framed Excellence Magazine as a news integration hub for content from mainland China, Hong Kong, and the broader Chinese-speaking world directed at Korean audiences.
Excellence Global Media Corporation (卓越全球傳媒股份有限公司) is a Taipei-based media company incorporated on May 27, 2019, under Taiwan’s company registry (統編: 82886718), with registered capital of NT$5 million. It is the corporate parent of Excellence Magazine (卓越雜誌), a Taiwan business and finance monthly founded in 1984. As of March 2026, the company is chaired by Zheng Yizhang (鄭玉章), who also controls a network of at least thirteen affiliated companies spanning printing, media, food and beverage, and international trade. Excellence Magazine president Xu Banghao (徐邦浩) serves as a director with equal shareholding to the chairman. The company has documented connections with CCP and Chinese government entities, including co-publishing roles in CCP-organized cross-strait cultural events and a 2024 delegation visit to Xiamen touring state-directed Taiwan youth incubator facilities, during which delegation members applied for PRC mainland resident permits. It is headquartered at 7F-1, 75 Bade Road Section 3, Songshan District, Taipei.
Want Want China Times Media Group (旺旺中時媒體集團) is a Taiwan-based media conglomerate established in 2009 following the acquisition of the China Times Group (中國時報集團) by Want Want Holdings (旺旺集團), a food and beverage company whose founder and chairman, Tsai Eng-meng (蔡衍明), derives the majority of his business revenue from mainland China. The acquisition, completed in November 2008 for approximately NT$20.4 billion, gave Want Want control of the China Times newspaper and television channels CTV and CTiTV. Freedom House has identified the group as a prominent example of Beijing wielding influence in Taiwan by co-opting local business elites with commercial interests in China, noting that its outlets carry pro-Beijing content and have reduced coverage of human rights issues in China under Tsai’s ownership. A peer-reviewed study in the American Political Science Review found that under Tsai’s ownership the group’s outlets are affiliated with the PRC-led Belt and Road News Alliance and that media scholars and former employees report the organization receives editorial directives from the PRC’s Taiwan Affairs Office. In 2014, Tsai led a delegation to meet Xinhua News Agency (新華社) president Li Congjun (李從軍), following which the two organizations signed a Strategic Cooperation Memorandum (戰略合作備忘錄). In 2019 the Financial Times reported that journalists at China Times and CTiTV said Taiwan Affairs Office officials “call every day” to shape coverage; Want Want sued the Financial Times, its reporter, and Taiwan’s Central News Agency for defamation, though prosecutors ultimately dropped the cases. CTiTV’s broadcast license was not renewed by Taiwan’s National Communications Commission on November 18, 2020, citing repeated violations of regulations and failure of internal control mechanisms; the channel went off air on December 11, 2020.
