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BERNAMA INTERNATIONAL NEWS
SERVICE
Media organisations can subscribe to several
international newswire services through Bernama.
Bernama receives breaking news reports from around the
globe through its partnerships with regional and
international newswire services. Everything from world
politics to business, sports science and technology,
entertainment and human-interest issues are provided by
the following newswires: German news agency DPA;
Australian organisations Asia Pulse and AFX; America's
Knight Ridder and Associated Press; Reuters; Japan's
Kyodo news; China's National News Agency Xinhua and
others. International news reports can be delivered to
clients through Bernama's software system called
INS2000i or e-mailed.
Information on selected Foreign News agencies:
- Deutche Presse-Agentur (DPA)
Germany's DPA is an independent and private news agency
owned by the German media. Over 50 years old, DPA has
correspondents and stringers in over 100 major cities
throughout the world. DPA provides balanced and reliable
coverage of political, cultural and economic
developments in regions that include Europe, Africa and
the Middle East, North America and Asia and the Pacific.
DPA reports provide a European perspective on major
issues of the day and are important reading for
informed Malaysians who follow global affairs.
China's Xinhua News Agency provides a multilingual news
service, which includes English and Chinese, with
in-depth coverage of international, domestic and sports
events. Xinhua is an authoritative source for daily
reports on Chinese life now changing in the drive
towards modernisation. News reports are backed by facts,
figures and backgrounders on government strategies,
policies and economic restructuring measures.
Kyodo News is Japan's representative news agency. It
distributes its news to Japan's radio stations. TV
networks and the newspapers whose combined circulation
exceeds 68 million copies a day. Kyodo has over 1,200
journalists and photographers and over a hundred
correspondents and stringers throughout the world.
International news coverage focuses on the Asia-Pacific
region followed by North America, Europe, the Middle
East, Latin America and Africa.
Kyodo distributes news to the international media
through the Kyodo World service, an English-language
wire service. KWS is directly transmitted to Bernama
(Malaysia), Tass News Agency (Soviet Union), Antara
(Indonesia), the Philippines News Agency, Yonhap (ROK),
Press Trust of India and IRNA (Iran).
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