Five media agencies in Thailand on Wednesday signed a news sharing agreement with China’s state mouthpiece Xinhua, bringing the number to at least a dozen.
The MOU signed today allows the Thai media organizations to publish news content, videos, and photos from Xinhua free of charge. A Thai media guild representative on Wednesday hailed the growing partnership as a step forward to bring more information about China to Thai audiences.
“Thai media would receive news directly from a Chinese news agency, instead of a second hand information from Western media only,” Thai-Chinese Journalists Association chairman Chaiwat Wanichwattana said at a roundtable discussion. “This kind of cooperation is most welcome.”
The 12 known signatories of Xinhua’s news sharing program include news organizations and websites like Voice Online, Manager Online, Sanook, INN, Thailand Today, state broadcaster NBT, and Matichon Group, which owns Khaosod English.
Source: http://www.khaosodenglish.com/news/2019 ... th-xinhua/
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