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Entity Type: Domestic Non-Chinese Language Media

Kompas

Kompas, Indonesia’s largest national daily newspaper, provides comprehensive coverage of politics, economics, society, and culture. The newspaper was founded on June 28, 1965, by journalists P.K. Ojong and Jakob Oetama following a suggestion by General Ahmad Yani, a government official, to Frans Seda, a Catholic minister in President Sukarno’s cabinet, to establish a media outlet that would balance media linked to the Communist Party and other political groups. The publication faced a two-week ban in January 1978 during Indonesia’s New Order era — the authoritarian regime under President Suharto from 1966 to 1998 — for coverage deemed too critical of government policies. Kompas pioneered digital journalism in Indonesia and launched Kompas.id in 2017 as a subscription-based platform.

IDN Times

IDN Times is a Jakarta-based digital media platform founded on June 8, 2014. The platform targets millennial and Gen Z audiences in Indonesia and claims to reach over 80 million users. IDN Times operates multiple business units, including other news portals such as Popbela.com, Popmama.com, and FORTUNE Indonesia, as well as live streaming and other entertainment services. The company was founded by entrepreneurs Winston Utomo and William Utomo

Sinar Harian

Sinar Harian (Daily Light) is a Malay-language newspaper launched on July 31, 2006.The publication covers national and local news, politics, crime, economy, sports, and entertainment, serving Malay-speaking audiences across Malaysia. Sinar Harian operates both print and digital editions, providing news coverage and feature stories that address issues relevant to Malaysian communities. The paper is part of the Karangkraf Group’s broader media portfolio, which includes magazines and digital platforms for  Malaysian readers.

Liputan6

Founded in August 2000, Liputan6.com is an Indonesian news portal that initially released content from the television program Liputan6, a news magazine program that first aired in 1994. The portal covers politics, sports, business, technology, entertainment, health, lifestyle, and regional news, and operates a fact-checking channel to combat misinformation.

Canal 4

Canal 4 (烏拉圭第四頻道) is a commercial television station based in Montevideo, Uruguay, established on April 23, 1961 by María Elvira Salvo and her son Hugo. Owned by Grupo Monte Carlo, it is Uruguay’s second-oldest television channel, operating terrestrial broadcast and a subscription-based international streaming service launched in 2020. The station broadcasts news programming, international series, and sports content, and has expanded its reach through regional channels across Uruguay. Producer Matías Garre participated in China Media Group’s December 2025 Silk Road Television Community Summit in Yangjiang, marking the station’s engagement with Chinese state media initiatives targeting Latin American broadcasters for content partnerships and international cooperation frameworks.

Box Brazil

Box Brazil Media Group is Brazil’s largest independent pay-TV programmer, operating in entertainment and technology with offices in Porto Alegre, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. The group comprises Box Brazil Channels, which operates seven pay-TV channels and ten streaming channels reaching 42 million people daily, along with subsidiaries Container Media, Media Mundus, and the Box Brazil Play streaming platform. Since 2021, the company has maintained a content-sharing partnership with China Media Group, broadcasting Chinese dramas, documentaries, and films to Brazilian audiences while distributing Brazilian content in China. Head of the company Claudia Dreyer participated in China Media Group’s December 2025 Silk Road Television Community Summit in Yangjiang, where she discussed the partnership’s expansion. The relationship exemplifies how Chinese state media entities establish content distribution agreements with commercial broadcasters in emerging markets, positioning Chinese programming within mainstream Latin American media ecosystems.

Deutsche Welle

Deutsche Welle (DW) is a German international broadcaster founded in 1953 and operating as a public service media organization with headquarters in Bonn and Berlin. DW provides content in more than 30 languages, covering topics including democracy, human rights, press freedom, and cultural exchange. Through DW Akademie, its educational arm, the organization provides journalism training and media development programs globally, as well as research on media sustainability, supporting press freedom and freedom of expression worldwide. DW operates under Germany’s Deutsche Welle Act, which ensures editorial independence from state control despite public funding. 

NDR

NDR (Norddeutscher Rundfunk) is a German public radio and television broadcaster headquartered in Hamburg, established on January 1, 1956. NDR creates Germany’s most-watched national news program Tagesschau and operates multiple radio stations, including NDR 2, a popular music station; NDR Kultur, an arts and culture station that plays classical music; and N-Joy, a music station, as well as the regional television channel NDR Fernsehen. The broadcaster employs approximately 3,400 permanent staff and is funded through mandatory German household broadcasting fees. 

The Star

The Star (星報) is a Malaysian English-language newspaper founded in September 1971 as a regional newspaper in the city of George Town, in the northwest Malaysian state of Penang. The Malaysian Chinese Association (馬來西亞華人公會), a right-wing political party, holds a controlling stake of the newspaper. The Star maintains its position as one of Malaysia’s largest-circulating English-language newspapers, with over 250,000 daily print copies and more than 1 million digital readers, covering politics, business, current affairs, lifestyle, entertainment, and sports — though print publications generally in the country face rising challenges from new digital platforms. The newspaper has claimed that it pioneered online news in Malaysia by launching The Star Online on June 23, 1995, as the country’s first news website.