February 9th, 2006, 08:00
The Nation, Published on February 09, 2006
Asia News Network, an alliance of 14 newspapers in 12 Asian countries, will tomorrow launch a weekly magazine that will reflect Asian perspectives and provide a comprehensive view of fastest growing and most diverse region of the world. The 32-page magazine, AsiaNews, will cover business, politics, personalities, lifestyles, sports and social trends. It will also feature special reports on topics affecting the region. These reports will tap the resources and talent of ANN members.
An electronic version of AsiaNews will be available at www.asianewsnet.net (http://www.asianewsnet.net). Members of Star Alliance, the worldтАЩs largest airline group, will distribute the magazine. Other sponsors include Holcim Group of Switzerland, which has cement operations throughout Asia, and the Konrad Adenauer Founda-tion.
тАЬANN is a prime example of the Asian co-operation we all dream of, and we would like to thank these organisations for having the foresight to support AsiaNews,тАЭ said ANN director Pana Janviroj. Since its founding in 1999, ANN has aimed to take advantage of its resources by encouraging its editors and reporters to collaborate. Their daily exchange of stories and photos aims to provide comprehensive coverage of Asia. ANN members take turns sending staff to the Bangkok secretariat office to help maintain the networkтАЩs website, produce the daily newsletter, facilitate the exchange of editorial content and тАУ from now тАУ produce AsiaNews.
The network has a combined circulation of 14 million newspapers a day. Its highly educated readers are from the business, government and professional sectors, and are classified as middle- to high-income earners. The daily newsletter has almost 20,000 subscribers. The magazine will be launched tomorrow at The Metropolitan Hotel in Bangkok.
ANNтАЩs members are The Statesman (India), The Jakarta Post (Indonesia), Sin Chew Daily and The Star (Malaysia), The Straits Times (Singapore), The Nation (Thailand), Viet Nam News (Vietnam), The Philippine Daily Inquirer (The Philippines), Daily Star (Bangladesh), China Daily (China), Daily Yomiuri (Japan), The Korea Herald (South Korea) and The Island (Sri Lanka).
Asia News Network, an alliance of 14 newspapers in 12 Asian countries, will tomorrow launch a weekly magazine that will reflect Asian perspectives and provide a comprehensive view of fastest growing and most diverse region of the world. The 32-page magazine, AsiaNews, will cover business, politics, personalities, lifestyles, sports and social trends. It will also feature special reports on topics affecting the region. These reports will tap the resources and talent of ANN members.
An electronic version of AsiaNews will be available at www.asianewsnet.net (http://www.asianewsnet.net). Members of Star Alliance, the worldтАЩs largest airline group, will distribute the magazine. Other sponsors include Holcim Group of Switzerland, which has cement operations throughout Asia, and the Konrad Adenauer Founda-tion.
тАЬANN is a prime example of the Asian co-operation we all dream of, and we would like to thank these organisations for having the foresight to support AsiaNews,тАЭ said ANN director Pana Janviroj. Since its founding in 1999, ANN has aimed to take advantage of its resources by encouraging its editors and reporters to collaborate. Their daily exchange of stories and photos aims to provide comprehensive coverage of Asia. ANN members take turns sending staff to the Bangkok secretariat office to help maintain the networkтАЩs website, produce the daily newsletter, facilitate the exchange of editorial content and тАУ from now тАУ produce AsiaNews.
The network has a combined circulation of 14 million newspapers a day. Its highly educated readers are from the business, government and professional sectors, and are classified as middle- to high-income earners. The daily newsletter has almost 20,000 subscribers. The magazine will be launched tomorrow at The Metropolitan Hotel in Bangkok.
ANNтАЩs members are The Statesman (India), The Jakarta Post (Indonesia), Sin Chew Daily and The Star (Malaysia), The Straits Times (Singapore), The Nation (Thailand), Viet Nam News (Vietnam), The Philippine Daily Inquirer (The Philippines), Daily Star (Bangladesh), China Daily (China), Daily Yomiuri (Japan), The Korea Herald (South Korea) and The Island (Sri Lanka).