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Europa Press

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Founded in 1953, Europa Press is one of Spain’s leading private news agencies. Initially established as a book distribution company by five monarchists, it transformed into a full news agency in 1966. The agency broadcasts news 24 hours a day, publishing approximately 3,000 articles per day. Under Antonio Herrero Losada’s leadership (1963-1989), Europa Press survived political pressure and gained prominence by providing the worldwide exclusive on dictator Francisco Franco’s death in 1975. The agency expanded territorially across Spain in the 1990s.

TV5MONDE

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TV5MONDE is a French public television network broadcasting French-language programming across multiple channels to promote Francophone productions and the French language globally. According to its official website, the network is available in more than 40 countries with subtitles in seven languages, offering films, series, cultural content focusing on French gastronomy and fashion, documentaries, entertainment programs, and international news. The network is currently 51 percent owned by a consortium of state-owned public broadcasters, including France Télévisions, Radio-télévision Suisse, RTBF, CBC/Radio-Canada, Télé-Québec, and ARTE France, with France Médias Monde holding the remaining ownership. In 2024, the network signed a memorandum of cooperation with CMG for the historical documentary of Sino-French ties titled “The Witnesses of 60 Years of History.”

Lao Future Media Co Ltd

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Lao Future Media Co. was founded in Vientiane in 2012. The company offers Lao news to Chinese and Lao business clients via paper publications and internet platforms. It is dedicated to developing a media information platform for Chinese and Chinese businessmen in Laos. The company utilizes various online platforms, such as the Lao Information Network official WeChat account, official Facebook, and Weibo accounts. The company claims it has become “Laos’ most influential Chinese-language media” and partners with Lao state television, Lao Economic Daily (老撾經濟日報), Vientiane Times (萬象時報), and Chinese state media including People’s Daily Online and China News Service. On November 9, 2023, Lao-China Enterprise Services Company acquired Laos Info Network from Laos Future Media Company, with Samanoh Bensena as board chairman, Savang Bensena as general manager, and Long Pan (龍攀) as Laos Future Media’s chairman attending the signing ceremony. Zhou Zeyu (周澤宇) was nominated as the network’s general manager.

Associated Press

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The Associated Press (AP) is a major international news agency, providing news coverage, photographs, and video to media outlets worldwide. It was founded in May 1846, when six New York newspapers pooled resources to fund a relay of horses and riders to deliver news from the Mexican-American War. AP operates as an independent, no-profit news cooperative. Headquartered in New York, the organization serves member newspapers and broadcasters across the United States and maintains bureaus in nearly 100 countries. The cooperative has won 59 Pulitzer Prizes for journalistic excellence.

CNN

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CNN, or Cable News Network, is an American multinational news media company owned by the entertainment conglomerate Warner Bros. Discovery. Founded on June 1, 1980, by media entrepreneurs Ted Turner and Reese Schonfeld, the Atlanta-based network became the first 24-hour cable news channel and the first all-news television channel in the United States. CNN International, which launched on September 1, 1985, broadcasts CNN programming globally. The network also operates a Beijing Bureau to cover China and Greater Asia.

Classic Media China Internacional SAC

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Classic Media China Internacional, a company mentioned in Chinese state media reports but having only an online presence on Facebook, seems to operate in close alignment with Chinese state actors in distributing Chinese media content — mostly entertainment — across Latin American markets, particularly Peru. In November 2024, Classic Media China Internacional directly collaborated with the National Radio and Television Administration (国家广播电视总局), Chongqing Municipal Propaganda Department (重庆市委宣传部), and Peru’s National Congress Cultural and Heritage Committee to launch the “China Time Slot” and “China Audio-Visual Exhibition Month” in Lima. There is no record of the company prior to 2023. The company’s generqal manager is Katherin Minna.

Voice of Vietnam

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Voice of Vietnam, or VOV, is Vietnam’s national radio broadcaster established on September 7, 1945, shortly after the declaration of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam on September 2, 1945. As a government agency, VOV serves as an official voice that “disseminates Vietnam’s Party guidelines and State laws, contributing to the people’s enhanced intellectual standards and spiritual lives.” The network began its first program at 11:30 AM on September 7, 1945, with the historic declaration “This is the Voice of Vietnam, broadcasting from Hanoi, capital of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam.” VOV has evolved from a revolutionary communication tool into a comprehensive multimedia organization encompassing radio stations, television channels, print publications, and digital platforms, broadcasting in Vietnamese and 13 foreign languages to reach both domestic audiences and Vietnamese communities worldwide.

Canal Sur

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Canal Sur is the public broadcaster of the Autonomous Community of Andalusia, launched on 28 February 1989. It broadcasts news, entertainment, sports, magazine shows, cooking programs, movies, and series, alongside content dedicated to Andalusian cultural traditions such as flamenco and regional festivals. The channel is part of Radio y Televisión de Andalucía (RTVA). In 2023, the broadcaster joined a group of Spanish media in broadcasting “China-Spain Cultural Journey” (中西文化之旅), a series of programs marking the 50th anniversary of China-Spain diplomatic relations, organized between Spain’s Ministry of Culture and the China Media Group (CMG), the mega-conglomerate under China’s Central Propaganda Department. 

Antara News Agency

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Antara News Agency, officially known as Perusahaan Umum Lembaga Kantor Berita Nasional ANTARA, is Indonesia’s national news agency and state-owned enterprise operating under the Ministry of State-Owned Enterprises. Founded on December 13, 1937, by independence activist Adam Malik as a private company, it was placed under presidential control in 1962 and reorganized as a state-owned enterprise in 2007. Its website, antaranews.com, launched in January 1996, offers bilingual news content in Indonesian and English to serve both domestic and international audiences.