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China
The China–Africa Development Fund (中非發展基金), or CAD Fund, was announced by Chinese Communist Party General Secretary Hu Jintao (胡錦濤) on November 4, 2006, as part of eight measures for Sino-African relations at the Beijing Forum on China-Africa Cooperation summit, and began operations on June 26, 2007. The fund is managed by China Development Bank (國家開發銀行), a bank under the State Council, the PRC’s government. The CAD Fund makes equity investments…
Tunisia
Tunis Afrique Presse (TAP) is the national press agency of Tunisia, founded on January 1, 1961, as a public service provider and the country's first official news outlet. The agency produces content in Arabic, French, and English, covering national and international news across political, economic, social, cultural, and sports domains. Operating with a network of journalists, reporters, photographers, and correspondents across Tunisia, TAP also maintains cooperation agreements with Arab and international press agencies.…
South Africa
Sekunjalo Investment Holdings is a South African private equity firm founded in 1997 by businessman Iqbal Survé and three partners. The company was established with principles of "social justice, broad-based economic participation, and inclusion," emphasizing what it describes as "a gentler capitalism" focused on people before profits. Sekunjalo operates across multiple sectors, including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, telecommunications, fisheries, and media. In August 2013, the company …
China, Indonesia
On September 1, 2024, media representatives from Indonesia gathered with their Chinese counterparts at the second annual China-Indonesia Media Forum (中國-印度尼西亞媒體論壇) in Beijing to discuss further cooperation. The event was part of China's deepening media diplomacy push across Southeast Asia in the hope of shaping perceptions in this strategically key region. The event, organized by China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs,
Indonesia
Kumparan is a digital news platform that launched in January 2017, founded by media executive Hugo Diba. The Jakarta-based platform combines traditional journalism covering politics, economy, and business with social media features, including user feeds, allowing ordinary users to create and publish content alongside professional journalists, and personalized content recommendations. According to Chief Marketing Officer Andrias Ekoyuono, Kumparan
Indonesia
Rajawali Citra Televisi Indonesia (RCTI) is a commercial television network that began broadcasting as a pay-TV service in August 1989, initially limited to the Greater Jakarta area. The network transitioned to free-to-air terrestrial broadcasting and by August 1993 had received government permission to broadcast across Indonesia. RCTI offers diverse programming, including news, entertainment, and sports content. …
Indonesia
PT Media Nusantara Citra Tbk is an Indonesian media conglomerate founded in June 1997 that operates four major free-to-air television stations: RCTI, MNCTV, GTV, and iNews. The company, which went public on the Indonesia Stock Exchange on June 22, 2007, claims that it produces more than 20,000 hours of content annually, including drama series, animation, and entertainment programming. PT Media Nusantara Citra operates digital streaming platforms RCTI+ and Vision+, and m…
Indonesia
PT Bina Media Tenggara is an Indonesian media company founded in late 1982 as an independent newspaper institution to publish The Jakarta Post, an English-language daily newspaper based in Jakarta. The company was established as a private entity owned by four competing Indonesian media groups: the online daily newspaper Suara Karya, the national newspaper Kompas, the weekly magazine Tempo, and the evening daily Sinar Harapan. PT Bina Media Tenggara
Indonesia
Merdeka.com is an Indonesian news website founded in 2012 by Indonesian-born entrepreneur Steve Christian. According to its company profile, the platform was created through “collaboration between technology developers and journalists,” with the aim of delivering news content that is both accurate and accessible to Indonesian audiences. The website covers a range of topics, including national and international news, politics, business, entertainment, and lifestyle, for…
Indonesia
Republika is an Indonesian news portal covering politics, economics, culture, and religious affairs. Founded in 1995 to "serve Indonesia's Muslim community," the publication ceased its print edition in December 2022 and transitioned fully online. The website offers news in both Indonesian and English, and republishes content from Germany’s Deutsche Welle. Republika has participated in China-Indonesia media cooperation initiatives, with its news editor at…
Indonesia
Djarum Group is a family-owned Indonesian conglomerate company founded in 1951, when Oei Wie Gwan (黃惠源) acquired a nearly defunct cigarette manufacturer in Kudus, Central Java. The company is now controlled by brothers Robert Budi Hartono and Michael Bambang Hartono, and produces tobacco products, having also diversified into banking, technology, and media. In December 2024, Djarum's venture capital arm, GDP Venture,
Indonesia
The Jakarta Post, an English language newspaper published by Indonesia’s PT Bina Media Tenggara, a media and consulting firm, reportedly signed a content-sharing arrangement with the Chinese government-run China Daily (中國日報) in 2016 to regularly publish a "China Watch" (看中國) insert. The specific date of the agreement, however, remains undocumented in public sources. China's Mission to ASEAN stated in October 2016 that the cooperation "opens a new win…
Indonesia
The Jakarta Post is an English-language daily newspaper in Indonesia, founded in 1983 by four Indonesian media groups — the online daily newspaper Suara Karya, the national newspaper Kompas, the weekly magazine Tempo, and the evening daily Sinar Harapan — under the auspices of then-Information Minister Ali Murtopo and politician Jusuf Wanandi. The newspaper expressed its aim at the time as creating a credible English-language publica…
China, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
On December 10, 2020, China Media Group (中國媒體集團) hosted the 2020 European Media Partners Cooperation Online Forum, which the state-run China Global Television Network (CGTN) called a “Mutual Trust Dialogue for Win-Win Cooperation.” Representatives from several European countries were reportedly in attendance. The CMG president Shen Haixiong (慎海雄), also a deputy head of the Central Propaganda Department, used the forum to advocate for deeper media cooperation on pandemic coverage. The event featured the launch of
UK
Reuters is a British news agency established in London in October 1851 by Paul Julius Reuter, a German-born entrepreneur who pioneered the use of telegraph technology for news transmission. The agency provides news content, multimedia, and financial data to media organizations, businesses, and professionals globally through its Reuters Connect platform and various information services. Reuters currently employs around 2,500 journalists and 600 photojournalists, posted at approximately 200 locations worldwide and producing content in 16 languages. The agency has won mo…
