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Wed 08 Aug 2010China news agency to add Irish bureau
CHINA’S STATE-RUN news agency Xinhua will open its first Dublin bureau later this year, part of a global expansion by the country’s most powerful media organisation and the propaganda arm of the ruling Communist Party.
“My news agency is the first Chinese media organisation to set up a permanent office in Ireland,” said Xiong Sihao, an experienced correspondent who has previously reported from Africa and will be the bureau’s chief correspondent.
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