Organization of Asia-Pacific News Agencies (OANA) is an association of news agencies

News agency

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 Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) member states in the Asia-Pacific region. It was previously known as Organisation of Asian News Agencies.

It was formed in 1961 on UNESCO's initiative. It provides a news

News

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 wire service containing articles donated by its members.

Members

The members of OANA are:

Name	Country
Bakhtar News Agency Bakhtar News Agency Bakhtar News Agency is the official state news agency of the Afghan government, based in Kabul. The agency is a major source of news for all media in Afghanistan, gathering domestic and international news and providing information to outlets....	Afghanistan
Australian Associated Press Australian Associated Press Australian Associated Press is Australia's national news agency. The organisation was established in 1935 by Fairfax and The Herald and Weekly Times.AAP employs more than 175 journalists who work in bureaux in all Australian states and territories...	Australia
Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency Azerbaijan State Telegraph Agency is the official news agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan.-History:AzerTAc was established on March 1, 1920. Throughout the Soviet period, the agency held various names and after restoration of Azerbaijani independence in 1991, the agency name was restored...	Azerbaijan
Trend News Agency Trend News Agency Trend News Agency is the biggest private news company in Azerbaijan, Caucasus and Central Asia. Trend was founded in 1995 and promotes investing in Civil Society Projects in Azerbaijan....	Azerbaijan
Bahrain News Agency Bahrain News Agency The Bahrain News Agency is the state news agency of Bahrain. It is run under the Bahraini Ministry of Culture and Information.BNA is a member of the Federation of Arab News Agencies.-External links:* *...	Bahrain
Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha	Bangladesh
United News of Bangladesh United News of Bangladesh United News of Bangladesh is a Bangladesh private sector news agency established in 1988.UNB has news exchange agreements with other major news agencies and networks, such as Associated Press, UNI, Xinhua, Kyodo, ANSA, Suomen Tietotoimisto and Rompress.UNB is a member of international bodies such...	Bangladesh
Agence Khmer de Presse	Cambodia
Xinhua News Agency Xinhua News Agency The Xinhua News Agency is the official press agency of the government of the People's Republic of China and the biggest center for collecting information and press conferences in the PRC. It is the largest news agency in the PRC, ahead of the China News Service...	China
Korean Central News Agency Korean Central News Agency The Korean Central News Agency is the state news agency of North Korea and has existed since December 5, 1946. KCNA is headquartered in the capital city of Pyongyang...	North Korea
Emirates News Agency	Emirates
Press Trust of India Press Trust of India Press Trust of India is the largest news agency in India. It is headquartered in Delhi and is a nonprofit cooperative among more than 450 Indian newspapers and has a staff of about 2,000 writers spread across 150 offices nationwide...	India
Asian News International Asian News International The Asian News International is a leading news agency based in Delhi, India. It provides multimedia news to 50 bureaus in India and also to other parts of Asia. It covers virtually all of South Asia since its foundation and presently claims, on its official website, to be the leading South...	India
Antara	Indonesia
Islamic Republic News Agency Islamic Republic News Agency The Islamic Republic News Agency , 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. , the Managing Director of IRNA is Ali Akbar...	Iran
Mehr News Agency Mehr News Agency The isan Iranian news agency headquartered in Tehran, owned by the .Established in July 2003, MNA is the most multilingual news agency in the Islamic Republic of Iran and its’ CEO and Director General is currently Reza Moghadasi....	Iran
Fars News Agency Fars News Agency Fars News Agency is a news agency in Iran. While it describes itself as "Iran's leading independent news agency", news organizations such as CNN and Reuters describe it as a "semi-official" news agency with ties to the government...	Iran
National Iraqi News Agency National Iraqi News Agency The National Iraqi News Agency , or NINA, was the first independent news agency in Iraq after the Iraq War. It is primarily an Internet-based news outlet, although it plans to offer a WiFi platform in the near future...	Iraq
Jiji Press Jiji Press Jiji Press Ltd. is a leading wire service in Japan. Headquartered at Ginza, Chuo, Tokyo, Jiji has 82 branch offices, general bureau and bureau in Japan and 28 general bureau globally. Seizo Wakabayashi is the current President of Jiji Press.-External links:*...	Japan
Kyodo News Kyodo News is a nonprofit cooperative news agency based in Minato, Tokyo. It was established in November 1945 and it distributes news to almost all newspapers, and radio and television networks in Japan. The newspapers using its news have about 50 million subscribers. K. K. Kyodo News is Kyodo News' business...	Japan
Kazinform	Kazakhstan
Khabar Agency	Kazakhstan
Kuwait News Agency Kuwait News Agency The Kuwait News Agency is a news agency centered in Kuwait. It was established on October 6, 1979 according to an Amiri Decree to gather news and information and distributing it to media institutions and individuals. The news agency currently holds offices in most Arab countries, along with...	Kuwait
Kyrgyz News Agency	Kyrgyzstan
Lao News Agency	Laos
Bernama BERNAMA BERNAMA is a news agency of the government of Malaysia. It is an autonomous body placed under the Information, Culture and Communications Ministry. It was set up by an Act of Parliament in 1967 and started work on 26 May 1968....	Malaysia
Montsame News Agency Montsame News Agency -External links:**...	Mongolia
Rastriya Samachar Samati	Nepal
Oman News Agency	Oman
Pakistan Press International Pakistan Press International Pakistan Press International is a news agency founded in June 1956 as Pakistan Press Association . The name was changed in 1968. It was first started by Mr. Muzzam Ali, the Chief Editor of Associated Press of Pakistan . The agency objective was to provide competition to APP's monopoly. It began...	Pakistan
Associated Press of Pakistan Associated Press of Pakistan Associated Press of Pakistan is a government-operated national news agency of Pakistan. It is not associated with the Associated Press agency .-Lack of financial resources:...	Pakistan
Philippines News Agency Philippines News Agency Philippines News Agency, also known as PNA, is the official news agency in the Philippines. It was started on March 1, 1973 and it has its headquarters in Manila.-External links:* official website*...	Philippines
Qatar News Agency Qatar News Agency Qatar News Agency is a state-run Qatari news agency. It was established by a decree issued on May 25, 1975. It provides news in Arabic and English....	Qatar
Yonhap News Agency	South Korea
ITAR-TASS News Agency	Russia
Russian Information Agency	Russia
Saudi Press Agency Saudi Press Agency The Saudi press agency ' was established in 1971 as the first national news agency. The main goal of its establishment was to serve as a central body to collect and distribute local and international news in the kingdom of Saudi Arabia and abroad....	Saudi Arabia
Lankapuvath Lankapuvath Lankapuvath is Sri Lanka’s National News Agency and is the only News Agency in the country. It is a company of five partners, national dailies and main national electronic media institutions....	Sri Lanka
Syrian Arab News Agency Syrian Arab News Agency The Syrian Arab News Agency is a news agency in Syria. It is a state media organisation linked to the Ministry of Information. It was established in 1965....	Syria
Thai News Agency MCOT MCOT Public Company Limited )) is a Thai media conglomerate. Its origins date back to the creation in 1955 of Thailand's first television broadcaster, The Thai Television Company Limited. In 1977, this company was reconstituted as a state enterprise, the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand...	Thailand
Anadolu News Agency	Turkey
Vietnam News Agency Vietnam News Agency Vietnam News Agency or Vietnamese News Agency is the official news agency of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.-History:*The Vietnamese News Agency was founded in 1945 shortly after the August Revolution...	Vietnam
Yemen News Agency	Yemen