Focus Taiwan
Focus Taiwan is the English-language news service of the Central News Agency (CNA), Taiwan's official national news agency. It publishes wire-style reporting on Taiwanese politics, economics, society, science, and cross-strait and international affairs. As a public news agency, it aims for factual, straightforward coverage and serves as a primary English-language source on developments in Taiwan.
Focus Taiwan at a glance
- Country
- Taiwan
- Region
- East Asia · Asia
- Kind of outlet
- News agency
- Editorial leaning
- Centrist
- Website
- focustaiwan.tw ↗
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How Crosswire groups Focus Taiwan
Crosswire groups Focus Taiwan as Centrist for comparisons within Taiwan's directory. Center includes both centrist outlets and outlets for which the directory has no confident classification. It is not evidence that this outlet is neutral or more accurate. In Taiwan, Taipei Times is listed as Left-leaning — so you can open Focus Taiwan beside a title of a different orientation and compare the same day's front pages directly.
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Where Focus Taiwan sits in Taiwan's press
Focus Taiwan is one of 6 outlets tracked in Taiwan and the only news agency tracked there. By outlets tracked, Taiwan ranks fourth of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.
Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 26 of the 51 news agencies in the directory. The nearest counterparts to Focus Taiwan outside Taiwan, starting with East Asia, are Yonhap News (South Korea), Montsame (Mongolia), Khaama Press (Afghanistan) and VietnamPlus (Vietnam). Opening one of them beside Focus Taiwan is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.
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