ASIA
ABN NEWSWIRE asian business news - distributing company reports
ASIAN NEWS INTERNATIONAL india-based, also serving china & more

AUSTRALIA
AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATED PRESS (AAP) national news agency

CANADA
CSR WIRE canadas corporate social responsability (csr) news agency
THE CANADIAN PRESS canadas co-operative news agency

CHINA
CHINA NEWS SERVICE chinas 2nd biggest news agency
XINHUA chinas main news agency, controlled by communist party

FRANCE
AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE (AFP) worlds oldest news agency

GREECE
ANA-MPA national news agency

HUNGARY
MTI national news agency

ITALY
AGENZIA GIORNALISTICA ITALIA (AGI) the biggest italian agency
ANSA co-op between the italian media, a major global news agency
INTER PRESS SERVICE (IPS) non-profit global agency, hq in rome

INDIA
PRESS TRUST OF INDIA (PTI) the biggest indian news agency

JAPAN
KYODO NEWS non-profit co-op agency, distributes to paper/mag/radio

LIBYA
MATHABA lybian govt-supported global indie news agency

MALAYSIA
BERNAMA the countrys national news agency

PACIFIC ISLANDS
PACNEWS by PINA pacific island news agency

RUSSIA
ITAR-TASS russias biggest news agency, govt-owned
INTERFAX non-governmental news agency
RIA NOVOSTI government-sponsored press agency

SOUTH KOREA
YONHAP NEWS state news agency

TAIWAN
CENTRAL NEWS AGENCY not for profit agency, partly govt-funded

UKRAINE
UNIAN ukrainian independent information agency, biggest in country

UNITED KINGDOM
PRESS ASSOCIATION (PA) 140 year old uk/ireland co-op agency
REUTERS uk-based news agency, supplies many global news sources

UNITED STATES
ALTERNET alternative left-leaning news agency, many news sources
ASSOCIATED PRESS (AP) collective agency - papers/tv/news mags
UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL (UPI) us-based news agency

ZIMBABWE
ZIM ONLINE indie agency, opposing mugabe's strict media rules