DOW JONES' PREMIER ONLINE BUSINESS RESOURCE FEATURES SAME-DAY INFORMATION FROM CHINA; Dow Jones News/Retrieval Adds AsiaInfo Daily; Features Business and Trade News From China.PRINCETON, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 16, 1996--Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R) subscribers can now access AsiaInfo Daily, an important collection of timely business and trade news abstracts in English from China. AsiaInfo Daily delivers between 40-60 stories daily, Monday through Friday, by 12:30 p.m. (ET), the same day they are published in the Far East. In Beijing, AsiaInfo editors review hundreds of local Chinese language newspapers and trade journals for trade, investment, financial, business and economic news. Articles are chosen for news worthiness and edited to eliminate propaganda. While the majority of stories are culled from a core list of almost 200 sources, editors also scan the full spectrum of Chinese publications for pertinent news and information. In addition, several stories originate o·rig·i·nate v. 1. To bring into being; create. 2. To come into being; start. from reporters who work directly for AsiaInfo and who specialize spe·cial·ize v. 1. To limit one's profession to a particular specialty or subject area for study, research, or treatment. 2. To adapt to a particular function or environment. in corporate news. "As China continues to emerge as a market force, our subscribers need the valuable resources found in Dow Jones Dow Jones the best known of several U.S. indexes of movements in price on Wall Street. [Am. Hist.: Payton, 202] See : Finance News/Retrieval to make their most informed business decisions," said Josephine K. Ottman, director of product marketing, Dow Jones Business Information Services See Information Systems. . "AsiaInfo Daily provides the critical link to events in China without delay. This is yet one more example of how Dow Jones continues to broaden the international base of information our subscribers need to remain competitive." AsiaInfo's specialized focus complements the vast selection of content already available on China. News on other Far East and Southeast Asian countries Noun 1. Asian country - any one of the nations occupying the Asian continent Asian nation country, land, state - the territory occupied by a nation; "he returned to the land of his birth"; "he visited several European countries" currently available on Dow Jones spans Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong Hong Kong (hŏng kŏng), Mandarin Xianggang, special administrative region of China, formerly a British crown colony (2005 est. pop. 6,899,000), land area 422 sq mi (1,092 sq km), adjacent to Guangdong prov. , Thailand, and other Asian countries such as India. Dow Jones News/Retrieval is the leading commercial provider of online business and financial information, including more than 3,000 text publications, broadcast transcripts, and more than 400 other comprehensive sources of business and financial data. Dow Jones is the only online service to offer same-day access to the full text of The Wall Street Journal(R), the New York Times, the New York Times, The Morning daily newspaper, long the U.S. newspaper of record. From its establishment in 1851 it has aimed to avoid sensationalism and to appeal to cultured, intellectual readers. Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Morning daily newspaper. Established in 1881, it was purchased and incorporated in 1884 by Harrison Gray Otis (1837–1917) under The Times-Mirror Co. (the hyphen was later dropped from the name). , and the Financial Times. In all, Dow Jones makes available a total of 48 of the top 50 U.S. newspapers. Dow Jones Business Information Services, the electronic publishing An umbrella term for non-paper publishing, which includes publishing online or on media such as CDs and DVDs. arm of Dow Jones & Company, Inc., provides business and financial news and information products including The Wall Street Journal Interactive Edition(R) and Dow Jones News/Retrieval(R), to corporations, consumers and private investors through a variety of electronic media: computer, telephone, facsimile and radio. Dow Jones also publishes The Wall Street Journal and its international editions, Barron's(R) magazine and other periodicals, electronic business information services, including those of Dow Jones Telerate and Dow Jones Financial News Services, and the Ottaway group of community newspapers. Dow Jones produces business television programming internationally and video news delivered to desktop computers. More information on Dow Jones and its products can be found on the Internet's World Wide Web at http://bis.dowjones.com. CONTACT: Dow Jones Maggie Landis, 609/520-4679 or Internet at maggie.landis@cor.dowjones.com |
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