This document provides information on several national and international news agencies: - Xinhua is China's state news agency which collects news globally in 7 languages and updates over 4,500 items daily. - PTI is India's largest news agency founded in 1947 with over 1,000 employees covering news in English and Hindi. - SANA is Syria's state news agency established in 1965 with offices in Syria and a website launched in 1997. - BERNAMA is Malaysia's national news agency set up in 1967 to provide reliable news to local and international media.

1. NATIONAL INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES
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4. INTERNATIONAL NEWS AGENCIES:

8. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF DIFFERENT
COUNTRIES:

9. XINHUA:
• Xinhua News Agency, the state and worldwide news agency in China, Xinhuanet.com is a backbone
with global influence among key national websites. On the strength of Xinhua's 150 subsidiaries all
over China and the world, Xinhuanet.com has formed a global news and information gathering
network to provide authoritative, substantial and timely news and information, as well as a large
amount of on-the-spot reports, exclusive reports and brilliant multi-media reports.
• Xinhuanet.com consists of the Beijing head network, 32 local channels throughout China and 10
subsidiary websites of the Xinhua News Agency. With sophisticated technology and equipment, and a
safe and reliable system, Xinhuanet.com ranks first in China in the network platform and is known as
an "aircraft carrier" for Chinese websites.
• Collecting news and information around the world and covering major events at home and abroad,
Xinhuanet.com releases news around the clock in seven languages, namely, Chinese (GB, Big5),
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Arabic, and Japanese and updates more than 4,500 news items
every day. It is thus known as the "collector of on-line news and information in China

10. PTI(PRESS TRUST OF INDIA):
• PTI named as press trust of India. It is the largest news agency of India. It was
founded in 27 august 1947. Its key people are Riyadh Mathew. Its headquarter is
in new Delhi .It has more than 1000 employees. PTI is a non profit cooperative
among more than 500 Indian newspapers and has more than 1000 full time
employees. A few correspondents located in most of the districts headquarter in
country. It provides news coverage and information in both English and Hindi. It
exchange news information with more than 100 news agencies outside India.

11. SANA(SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY(SANA):
• SYRIAN ARAB NEWS AGENCY(SANA)(SYRIA) The Syrian Arab News Agency
(SANA) is a news agency in Syria. It is a public- owned media organization linked
to the Ministry of Information. It was established in June 1965. Website: SANA
launched its website in 1997.Up until November 2012, SANA's website was
hosted in Dallas, Texas by the United States company Soft Layer. Due to
sanctions related to the Syrian Civil War, which make this hosting illegal, the Soft
Layer company was obliged to terminate its hosting responsibilities with SANA.

12. BERNAMA:
• The National News Agency of Malaysia or BERNAMA, a statutory body, was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and began operations in May
1968.
A five-member Supervisory Council appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is created to ensure that BERNAMA is always guided by the
provisions of the Act in implementing its objectives.
BERNAMA is managed by a Board of Governors appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong. The Board comprises a Chairman and six
representatives each from the Federal Government and Newspapers that are subscribers of BERNAMA. They each have alternate members who
are also appointed by the Yang di-Pertuan Agong.
The BERNAMA management is headed by a General Manager who is assisted by a Management Committee that implements all programmers and
activities as well as decisions of the Board of Governors.
The agency has its offices in all the states in Malaysia and correspondents in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok and stringers or retainers in United States
Of America, Nepal and Europe.
Equipped with fully computerized operations, it provides general and economic news services and screen-based real time financial information
services to subscribers in Malaysia and Singapore.
BERNAMA’s role as a source of reliable and latest news is well known among local and international media including government agencies,
corporations, universities and individuals nationwide.

13. IRNA(THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC NEWS
AGENCY):
• The Islamic Republic News Agency *(Persian: ‫اسالمی‬‫جمهوری‬,)‫خبرگزاری‬ or IRNA, is
the official news agency of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It is government-funded
and controlled under the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance. *The
agency also publishes the newspaper Iran. As of 2010[update], the Managing
Director of IRNA is Mohammad Khodaddi. IRNA has 60 offices in Iran and 30
more in various countries around the world

14. NATIONAL AGENCIES OF PAKISTAN:

15. APP(ASSOCIATED PRESS OF PAKISTAN):
• APP, Associated press of Pakistan is the federal news agency of Pakistan. The news agency works under the
ministry of information and broadcasting. A general manager appointed by the ministry runs the organizational setup.
The department has a staff of more than five hundred staff members, which include reporters, camera operators,
journalists, writers, newscasters and finance staff. The office of the department is in the capital, Islamabad. APP has
its offices in three main cities, which include Karachi, Rawalpindi, Lahore and a vast network of linked offices in small
cities.
• The firm has faced serious economic and financial crisis due to lack of funds in the early years until October 2002
when through an ordinance, it was converted in to a corporation and renamed as APPC Associated Press Pakistan
Corporation. With annual budget of 140 million rupees, the organization generates its income from print and
electronic media. Being a federal administrative body all newspapers and different news networks work under its
supervision. Dawn, The Nation Pakistan Times, The News International are major English newspapers while Nawa-e-
waqt, Khabrain and Jang are Urdu newspapers having readers throughout the country. APPC provides all news of
different issues including official, political, local, marketing and business. The APPC has close allies with more than
35 different news agencies of the world and it is official source of International news for other nations

16. PPI(PAKISTAN PRESS INTERNATIONAL):
• Pakistan Press International (PPI), the country's independent news agency, was established in 1956.
The agency enjoys the respect of national and international media and has distinguished itself as an
instrument of credible, objective, and ethical journalism.
• PPI has an extensive news file prepared by over 300 staffers and stringers in all parts of the country.
All major newspapers, radio and television stations in Pakistan and a number of international news
and database organisations subscribe to PPI's text, photo and audio news services in English and
Urdu.
• Besides political news, PPI also lays special emphasis on the coverage of economic, social, cultural
and sports news, particularly projection of activities in the rural areas. PPI has one of the most
extensive coverage of rural Pakistan of any media organisation.
• The agency encourages news of social programmers', such as human rights, women's empowerment,
literacy, children's rights, family planning and environmental issues. PPI's policy is to help make
people aware of social problems such as dangers of drugs, smoking and other health hazards.

17. SABAH(SOUTH ASIAN BROADCASTING
AGENCY):
• The Saba News Agency (SABAH) also known as the Yemen News Agency, is the
official state news agency ABA was founded on 16 November 1970 as the official
news agency of north Yemen, and is headquartered in the capital Sana'a. On 22
May 1990 the agency was merged with the Aden News Agency (ANA) of South
Yemen to create the Yemen News Agency Saba The agency provides news on
the Middle East and region. It is a member of the Federation of Arab News
Agencies (FANA)

18. INP(INDEPENDENT NEWS PAKISTAN):
• INP.net.pk is among the Pakistan leaders in online news and information delivery.
Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in INP Capital
headquarters in Islamabad, and in bureaus Lahore, Peshawar, Karachi , Quetta &
Azad Kashmir, with more than 1000 correspondent all our the Pakistan and world,
INP.net.pk relies heavily on INP's team of almost 100 news professionals.
INP.net.pk features the latest technologies, to searchable archives of news
features and background information.

19. ANN(ASIA NEWS NETWORK):
• The Asia News Network )ANN) is one of the world’s biggest media alliances. Founded
in 1999 with seven members, ANN now comprises 21 leading media, mostly leading
national English-language daily, from South, Southeast and Northeast Asia. ANN’s
main activities are daily exchanges of news, photos and a host of other
collaborations.
• The networking of newspapers in Asia was first discussed informally by Asian editors
who participated in the first Asian-German Editors' Forum organized by the Konrad
Adenauer Foundation in Manila. Encouraged by the forum’s success and the warm
fellowship among them, the editors decided to pursue a more permanent professional
and business relationship. With the goal of improving coverage of Asian affairs by
Asian media, ANN was born.

20. PPA(PAKISTAN PRESS AGENCY):
• Pakistan Press Agency (PPA) was established in 1990 in Karachi by Mr. Akhtar Jamal (an
experienced journalist who served several reputed international news organizations for more
than ten years in Ankara, Vienna and Beirut)) as its Chief Executive and Mr. M. N. Deen, (who
had retired as director of Press & Information Department, Government of Pakistan) as its
managing editor. (Unfortunately Mr. Deen expired in 1998).
• Initially PPA started its work with Jang Group of Newspapers for which Mr. Jamal had already
worked for years. Apart from more than a dozen Urdu newspapers, several English dailies,
including Pakistan Observer (Islamabad), The News International (Karachi), Jang London,
Frontier Post (Peshawar) and Daily Statesman published PPA stories. In 1998 PPA published its
first book “Who is Who in Pakistan” edited by Akhtar Jamal. PPA has two main offices in
Pakistan, Islamabad and Karachi.