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Kyrgyz Tuusu Publishing House

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Kyrgyz Tuusu Publishing House is a state-owned media enterprise in Kyrgyzstan, formed in January 2026 through the merger of four previously separate government publications: the national newspaper Kyrgyz Tuusu, the Russian-language daily Slovo Kyrgyzstana, the children’s magazine Baichchekey, and the literary journal Ala-Too. The publishing house is now the sole publisher of all four media. It also functions as a platform for official messaging from the Kyrgyz state. The secretary general of the Organization of Turkic States, an intergovernmental organization comprising all but one of the world’s Turkic sovereign states, has published articles in the magazine. Since the merger, the house has also co-hosted the May 2026 China-Kyrgyzstan Media Cooperation Forum in Bishkek with China’s People’s Daily (人民日報) and signed a cooperation

Kyrgyz Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation

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The Ministry of Science, Higher Education and Innovation of the Kyrgyz Republic is a government body responsible for scientific research, higher education, intellectual property, and innovation policy. President Sadyr Japarov established the ministry by decree on May 12, 2025, splitting it off from the former Ministry of Education and Science along with the State Agency for Intellectual Property and Innovation. A companion body, the Ministry of Education, retained responsibility for pre-school, primary, and secondary education. As part of the reorganization, the former National Accreditation Commission became the Higher Attestation Commission under the new ministry, and the State Intellectual Property Fund was transferred to it as well. The ministry now serves as the state authority overseeing Kyrgyzstan’s public universities, including their founding status, accreditation, and cooperation agreements with foreign institutions.

Hong Kong Police Force

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The Hong Kong Police Force (香港警務處), formed on May 1, 1844, under the territory’s first Police Ordinance, is Hong Kong’s primary law enforcement agency, operating under the government’s Security Bureau. Following the imposition of the Hong Kong National Security Law by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee in 2020, the force established a National Security Department on July 1, 2020, headed by a Deputy Commissioner of Police for National Security. The department investigates offenses under the national security law and conducts related intelligence work, and its head sits on the government’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security, which includes a National Security Adviser designated by China’s central government. The force’s Public Relations Branch has co-produced national security-themed television programming with broadcasters including Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) and Phoenix Television, forming part of a broader effort to promote public confidence in the police and awareness of national security law following the 2019 protests.

Hong Kong Security Bureau

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The Security Bureau (保安局) is a policy bureau of the Hong Kong government responsible for law and order, immigration and customs control, offender and drug rehabilitation, and emergency fire and rescue services. It oversees Hong Kong’s disciplined forces (meaning “uniformed”), including the Hong Kong Police Force, the Correctional Services Department, and the Immigration Department, according to the bureau’s own description of its mandate. Since the 2020 imposition of the Hong Kong National Security Law by China’s National People’s Congress Standing Committee, the bureau has taken a central role in implementing and publicizing national security enforcement, including gazetting amendments to the law’s implementing rules and producing its own media content, such as the 2026 television series NS Files: Decoded. The bureau is headed by the Secretary for Security, a principal official appointed by the Chief Executive.

Hong Kong National Security Department

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The National Security Department (國家安全處) is a specialized unit within the Hong Kong Police Force established to enforce the Hong Kong National Security Law. According to a Hong Kong government announcement made when the law was gazetted, police would establish the department on July 1, 2020, the day after the law took effect. The department is led by a Deputy Commissioner of Police for National Security, a position outside the force’s ordinary operations and management command structure, and works alongside the central government’s Office for Safeguarding National Security in Hong Kong. Its official mandate, as described by the police force, includes collecting and analyzing national security intelligence, investigating offenses that endanger national security, conducting counter-interference investigations and national security reviews, and carrying out tasks assigned by the territory’s Committee for Safeguarding National Security. The department has also organized national security-themed youth media competitions, including NStudio and NStory, and its officers have appeared as featured guests in Security Bureau-produced media content such as the television series NS Files: Decoded.

Committee for Safeguarding National Security of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region

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The Committee for Safeguarding National Security (維護國家安全委員會) is a Hong Kong government body established on July 3, 2020, under Article 12 of the Hong Kong National Security Law, tasked with primary responsibility for national security affairs in the territory. It is chaired by the Chief Executive and includes the Chief Secretary, Financial Secretary, Secretary for Justice, Secretary for Security, Commissioner of Police, and heads of the Immigration and Customs departments. Under Article 15 of the law, a National Security Adviser appointed by China’s central government attends committee meetings; that role has been held by the director of the Central People’s Government’s Liaison Office in Hong Kong. According to the Department of Justice’s summary of the law, the committee’s work is not subject to oversight by any other Hong Kong institution, its proceedings are not disclosed publicly, and its decisions are not subject to judicial review, on the grounds that national security is a matter reserved to China’s central authorities. The committee has commissioned national security-themed media content, including RTHK’s Bauhinia in Bloom and the annual National Security Education Day program.

Government Public Relations Department Thailand

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Thailand’s Public Relations Department (泰國民聯廳), or PRD, is Thailand’s national information and communication agency, operating under the Prime Minister’s Office. It traces its origin to the Publicity Division, established May 3, 1933, roughly a year after Thailand’s transition from absolute to constitutional monarchy, created to build public understanding of parliamentary democracy under the new system. It took its current name on March 8, 1952. PRD operates Thailand’s state broadcaster, the National Broadcasting Services of Thailand (NBT2HD), an English-language international channel, NBT World, and Radio Thailand’s World Service, which broadcasts in six languages including English, Mandarin, and Japanese. PRD also issues press credentials to domestic and foreign journalists. Its Foreign Affairs Office describes its role as conducting international communications “to create a favorable image of the country,” and PRD holds membership in the Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union, the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development, and other regional media bodies, alongside roles in ASEAN and UNESCO cultural and information programs. PRD has signed memoranda of understanding on broadcasting, news exchange, and mass communication with foreign media organizations including China’s Xinhua News Agency, the People’s Daily, and China Media Group.

Thailand Office of the Prime Minister

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The Office of the Prime Minister (สำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี) is the central cabinet-level department of the Thai government responsible for coordinating the executive branch under the prime minister, headquartered at Government House in Bangkok’s Dusit district. Its administrative secretariat component, the Office of the Permanent Secretary to the Prime Minister (สำนักงานปลัดสำนักนายกรัฐมนตรี), was established in 1960 under the Prime Minister’s Office Organization Act (No. 7) B.E. 2503, absorbing functions previously held by the Department of Territorial Inspection. The US Library of Congress describes OPM as “the Central Government agency in Thailand coordinating all the executive branch agencies under the Prime Minister.” Thailand’s Public Relations Department (泰國民聯廳), the state body responsible for domestic and international government communications, operates under OPM’s authority.

Government of the Republic of Kenya

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Kenya, an East African republic, holds regular multiparty elections, but the monitoring organization Freedom House reports that pervasive corruption and brutality by security forces remain serious problems despite a vibrant media and civil-society sector. Kenya established diplomatic relations with China in 1963, and the two governments elevated ties to a “comprehensive strategic cooperative partnership” during a state visit by Kenyan President William Ruto to Beijing in April 2025. State-to-state media cooperation dates back decades. In 2023, Xinhua News Agency invited the government-run Kenya News Agency (KNA) to cooperate in countering what both sides characterized as Western “fake news.” A release from KNA said the sides would “spearhead countering fake news and propaganda by reporting facts based on research to build a true image of the two nations that were victims of western colonial masters.” Kenya and China also pledged renewed news-exchange agreements ahead of Ruto’s 2025 state visit. Kenya became a founding member of the World Artificial Intelligence Cooperation Organization in July 2026.