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Entity Type: Domestic State-Affiliated Media

New Times Corporation

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The New Times Corporation is one of Ghana’s two state-owned newspaper publishers. It publishes the daily Ghanaian Times and the weekly The Spectator. It began as the Guinea Press, established by President Kwame Nkrumah in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. After Nkrumah’s overthrow in a 1966 military coup, the press was taken over as state property by decree in 1968, and in 1971 it was reconstituted under its current name. The corporation is wholly state-owned and overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, but it funds itself mainly through advertising rather than routine state subsidies. Ghana’s minister of public enterprises has urged the corporation’s management to bring its financial reporting in line with public finance law. The Chinese embassy in Accra has used the corporation’s flagship daily to publish ambassadors’ signed articles, including a 2019 piece by Ambassador Wang Shiting (王世廷) defending Beijing’s position on the Hong Kong protests.

Middle East News Agency

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The Middle East News Agency (中東通訊社), or MENA, is Egypt’s official news agency. It was established on December 15, 1955 as a joint-stock company owned by Egyptian press establishments. It was nationalized in 1960 and placed under the Ministry of Information. The agency has ties to Chinese state media going back decades. MENA’s chairman has said the agency signed its first news exchange agreement with Xinhua in 1958, and that the agreement remains in effect. He has also praised cooperation under the Belt and Road Initiative. At the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing, MENA executive editor-in-chief Ayman Elkady described his years in China as among the happiest of his life and called for deeper Egypt-China cooperation.

Ghanaian Times

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The Ghanaian Times (加納時報) is an English-language daily newspaper published in Accra by the New Times Corporation, a wholly state-owned enterprise overseen by Ghana’s State Interests and Governance Authority, which replaced the State Enterprises Commission in 2019. The publisher began as the Guinea Press, established by Ghana’s first president, Kwame Nkrumah, in 1957 as the printing house for his Convention People’s Party. In February 1966, army and police officers overthrew Nkrumah in a military coup, staged while he was abroad en route to China. The new military government later took the publisher over as state property, and in 1971 it was reconstituted as the New Times Corporation. The authority describes the paper as the country’s third most-read daily. In October 2024, the Ghanaian Times published a laudatory feature on the 2024 Belt and Road Journalists Forum in Chongqing, highlighting foreign participants’ praise for Chinese media.

Federal News Agency of Bosnia and Herzegovina

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The Federal News Agency, or FENA, is the news agency of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, one of the country’s two constituent entities. It was established by a Federation government decree of October 19, 2000, which merged the BH Press and HABENA agencies, and it began operating in October 2001. According to State Media Monitor, which classifies FENA as state-controlled, the Federation government appoints its management board, must consent to the appointment of its director, and provides most of its funding. The monitor found no statutory guarantee of editorial independence. Bosnian media have reported that FENA’s current director was appointed from the quota of a governing coalition party, and that he campaigned for that party during the October 2026 general elections. FENA’s editor-in-chief, Dejan Jazvić, also sits on the government-appointed management board. Bosnia’s ombudsman questioned the lawfulness of this kind of dual role in 2017, and a national journalists’ association called it a conflict of interest. In May 2026, Jazvić took part in a China-CEE media roundtable in Dunhuang hosted by the All-China Journalists Association (中華全國新聞工作者協會).

National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan

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The National Television and Radio Company of Uzbekistan (Oʻzbekiston Milliy teleradiokompaniyasi), known by the acronym MTRK, is Uzbekistan’s state broadcaster, headquartered in Tashkent. Its current organizational structure dates to a presidential decree issued November 8, 2005, and a subsequent Cabinet of Ministers resolution the following month, both published on Uzbekistan’s official legal-documents portal, directing a restructuring of MTRK’s staffing and production operations to modernize its broadcasting output. The company operates multiple national television channels, including the flagship Oʻzbekiston channel, alongside a national radio service, broadcasting primarily in Uzbek and Russian. MTRK is wholly state-owned.

Pakistan Television Corporation

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Pakistan Television Corporation (PTV) is Pakistan’s state television broadcaster, headquartered in Islamabad and operated under the country’s Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. The broadcaster traces its founding to a pilot television station established in Lahore, which began black-and-white transmission on November 26, 1964, according to the Ministry’s own account. Television centers followed in Karachi and Islamabad in 1967, and in Peshawar and Quetta in 1974, later expanding to Multan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir. The broadcaster describes its mandate as providing public-service broadcasting both within and outside Pakistan, producing programming in Urdu and regional languages including Sindhi, Punjabi, Pashto, and Balochi. PTV’s terrestrial coverage reaches about 90 percent of Pakistan’s population, with its channels also distributed by satellite across South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, the United Kingdom, Europe, and North America, per the Ministry.

Magyar Hirlap

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Magyar Hírlap is a Hungarian daily newspaper founded in 1968 as a state publication based in Budapest. Privatized after Hungary’s 1989 transition from communist rule, it became known for a liberal editorial stance until Swiss publisher Ringier acquired it in 2000. Hungary’s Economic Competition Authority (GVH) later ruled that Ringier held an excessive share of the newspaper market, prompting a divestiture. Entrepreneur Gábor Széles purchased and relaunched Magyar Hírlap in 2005, after which it adopted a “pro-government, anti-globalist, and patriotic” editorial line supporting the ruling Fidesz party, according to the media-monitoring database Eurotopics. In 2023, independent outlet Telex reported that the paper’s foreign-policy desk cited Orosz Hírek, an anonymous pro-Kremlin outlet republishing banned Russian state media, more than 1,500 times that year. Magyar Hírlap has published online only since 2022.

Hungary Today

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Hungary Today is an English-language news portal based in Budapest, billing itself as the leading English-language news source for Hungary. The portal, active since 2011, covers politics, economy, culture, and sport. It is published by the Friends of Hungary Foundation (Magyarország Barátai Alapítvány), a Hungarian NGO founded in 2011 to strengthen ties between Hungary and Hungarians living abroad. The foundation relies on private donations, including from state-linked firms such as gas and oil company MOL Group. MOL Group was long seen as closely associated with Orbán and his administration. In 2020, the Hungarian state transferred a 10 percent stake in MOL to Mathias Corvinus Collegium (MCC), a think tank run by Orbán’s then political director, Balázs Orbán. While its “About Us” page says the newsroom strives to “provide a complete, unbiased picture of Hungary,” the Media and Journalism Research Center (MJRC), a research institute that studies media systems worldwide, found that Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has regularly appeared at its annual conferences, and journalists and analysts it interviewed in 2023–2024 said the outlets increasingly function as vehicles for government narratives.

National Broadcasting Corporation of Kyrgyzstan

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The Kyrgyz National Broadcasting Corporation (Улуттук Телерадиоберүү Корпорациясы), known by its Kyrgyz-language acronym UTRK and formerly branded as KTRK, is Kyrgyzstan’s state broadcasting corporation, based in Bishkek. According to UTRK’s own account, its history traces to December 8, 1958, when Kyrgyzstan’s first television broadcast aired, an event now marked annually as the country’s professional Radio and Television Workers’ Day; the organization’s radio operations date back further, to 1931. The corporation operates Kyrgyzstan’s main television channels, including the National First Channel, Ala-Too 24 news channel, and several radio stations, along with the Republican Radio-Television Center and the Kyrgyztelefilm studio. In 2022, Kyrgyzstan’s parliament converted the broadcaster from “public” to “national” status, abolishing its independent oversight board and giving the president the power to appoint and dismiss its general director directly. UTRK has served as a domestic broadcast partner for Chinese state-linked media content in Kyrgyzstan, including a joint programming section with privately owned cable operator Dolon TV that carries “China TV Theater,” a strand created by China’s National Radio and Television Administration to place PRC state-produced programming abroad.