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Hong Kong
HOY TV (開電視), operated by i-CABLE HOY Limited under parent company i-Cable Communications Limited, is a free-to-air Cantonese-language television channel in Hong Kong. The channel began broadcasting on May 14, 2017, under the name Fantastic TV Chinese Channel, later renamed Hong Kong Open TV and then HOY TV in 2022. New World Development chairman Henry Cheng Kar-shun took control of i-Cable Communications in 2021, paying HK$316.4 million to acquire a majority stake in the company's controlling shareholder, Forever Top (Asia) Limited. In 2023, i-Cable surrendered its pay-television license and shifted its busines…
British Virgin Islands
Young Lion Holdings Limited is a British Virgin Islands-incorporated holding company that has served as Television Broadcasts Limited's (TVB) largest shareholder since January 2011, when it acquired a 26 percent stake in TVB from Shaw Brothers (Hong Kong) Limited for an estimated HK$5.2 billion, according to the South China Morning Post. As of TVB's 2024 Annual Report, the s…
Hong Kong
Phoenix Television (鳳凰衛視), operated by Phoenix Media Investment (Holdings) Limited, is a Hong Kong-based Chinese-language broadcaster established on March 31, 1996, and listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK: 2008). The company's largest shareholder is Bauhinia Culture Holdings, a company wholly owned by China's central government, which acquired a 21 percent stake from founder Liu Changle in April 2021…
Hong Kong
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 Sa…
Hong Kong
Television Broadcasts Limited (電視廣播有限公司), known as TVB, was first established on November 19, 1967, as Hong Kong's first wireless commercial television station, and today produces terrestrial broadcasting, drama, and digital media content distributed across mainland China and more than 40 other countries. The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong, trading under stock code 00511. TVB's largest shareholder, Young Lion Hold…
Hong Kong
On June 30, 2026, Hong Kong's Security Bureau launched NS Files: Decoded (國安檔案解密), a five-episode television series produced directly by the bureau to mark the sixth anniversary of the Hong Kong National Security Law's implementation. The series revisited five prosecuted national security cases, including that of motorcyclist Leon Tong Ying-kit (唐英傑), the law's first convicted defendant. It aired on Hong Kong b…
Hong Kong
On June 22, 2025, Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK aired coverage of the 17th Hong Kong Cup Diplomatic Knowledge Contest (香港盃外交知識競賽), part of an ongoing diplomacy-knowledge education program the broadcaster produces annually. Running since 2007, the contest is jointly organized by the Office of the Commissioner of China's Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Hong Kong's Education Bureau, and the Better Hong Kong Foundation, and is aimed at secondary and primary school students. RTHK's coverage, linked above, described its content…
Hong Kong
Hong Kong's National Security Department, a unit of the Hong Kong Police Force, organized NStudio (NStudio同心‧共創‧護國安), a national security-themed marketing proposal competition for primary and secondary school students, with Sing Tao News Corporation Limited listed as a supporting organization alongside the Security Bureau, the Home and Youth Affairs Bureau, and the Hong Kong Federation of Education Workers. Students submitted creative campaigns built around the concept of a "h…
Hong Kong
On June 26, 2022, Hong Kong's public broadcaster RTHK premieredBauhinia in Bloom — Cross-Media Musical Performance (紫荊花開—跨媒體音樂匯演), a 70-minute, five-act production commissioned by the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region's Committee for Safeguarding National Security to mark 2022's National Security Education Day. Composed, written, and directed by Mei Kwong-chiu (梅廣釗), chairman of the Federation of Hong Kong Composers and a member of the China Musicians Ass…
Italy
On December 17, 2025, Italian news agency Italpress signed a cooperation agreement with Xinhua, China's state news agency, a ministerial-level body operating under China's State Council and the Chinese Communist Party's Propaganda apparatus. The two agencies signed the deal at a media and think tank forum in Rome, which Xinhua's European Regional Office organized with support from the Chinese Embassy in Italy. Neither Italpress nor Xinhua has published the text of the agreement, though Italpress has since created a dedicated
Italy
On May 28, 2025, Italian news agency Italpress, based in Palermo, announced a content-sharing agreement with CCTV+ (央視國際視訊通訊社), the international video news agency of China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), which operates under the Chinese Communist Party's Central Propaganda Department. Under the agreement, Italpress will distribute its multimedia content in China while incorporating CCTV+ footage into its own coverage for subscribers in Italy and abroad. Italpress founder Gaspare Borsellino called the agreement "an important and exciting international partnership" that …
Hong Kong
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 centra…
Hong Kong
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 Secu…
Hong Kong
Sing Tao News Corporation Limited (星島新聞集團有限公司), also known as the Sing Tao Group (星島新聞集團), is a Hong Kong media company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange whose flagship title, Sing Tao Daily, was first published in 1938. The present holding company traces to 1996, when it was incorporated as Perfect Treasure Holdings before being acquired and renamed by businessman Charles Ho Tsu-kwok, who chaired the group from 2001 to 2021 an…
Hong Kong
i-CABLE Communications Limited (有線寬頻通訊有限公司) is a publicly listed Hong Kong media and telecommunications holding company, incorporated in 1999 above the pay-television operator Hong Kong Cable Television, which began broadcasting in 1993. The group today operates a digital terrestrial television network under the "HOY" brand, comprising channels HOY 76, HOY 77 and HOY 78, alongside a broadband service reaching more than two million households. Its news operations were historically known for adversarial journalism, includ…
Italy
Italpress is an Italian news agency founded in 1988 in Palermo, Sicily. It covers politics, economics, national and international news, sports and entertainment, with editorial offices in Rome and Milan and a New York bureau opened in 2023, giving it a presence across Italy, Europe and the Americas. In May 2025, Italpress signed a content-sharing deal with CCTV+ (央視國際視訊通訊社), the video news agency of China Media Group (中央廣播電視總台), which operates under the Chinese Communist Party's Central Prop…
Hong Kong
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 Adv…
Thailand
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 internation…
Thailand
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
Thailand
Daily News (เดลินิวส์) is a Thai-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok. It traces its founding to June 24, 1950, when founder Saeng Hetrakul (แสง เหตระกูล) — who had run a printing operation for five years — purchased the defunct Thai edition of the Bangkok Daily Mail. The paper was relaunched in 1964 under the name "Naewna Hang Yuk Daily News" (แนวหน้าแห่งยุคเดลินิวส์), with Hetrakul's son, Praphan Hetrakul (ประพันธ์ เหตระกูล), as editor-in-chief, p…
