NsNewsWire inks news-photo service agreement with Xinhua

DHAKA, Dec. 8 (NsNewsWire) — Bangladesh’s first press news agency– NsNewsWire — has signed a news and photo service agreement with Xinhua News Agency, the largest official news agency in the People’s Republic of China.

Sheuli Akter, editor of NsNewsWire, and Liu Chuntao, Dhaka Bureau chief of Xinhua News Agency, signed the agreement on Thursday at Xinhua News Agency’s Dhaka Bureau office in the city’s Baridhara diplomatic area on behalf of their respective sides.

As per the long term agreement, NsNewsWire will enjoy the right to use the Xinhua News Agency’s news and photo service.

Naim-Ul-Karim, special correspondent and in-charge, Shariful Islam, photojournalist, and Syed Zainul Abedin, video journalist, of Xinhua News Agency’s Dhaka Bureau office, among others, attended the agreement signing ceremony.

Under the agreement, NsNewsWire and Xinhua will also cooperate with each-other on national and international news coverage and content development issues on mutually agreed terms and conditions.

Headquartered in Beijing, Xinhua News Agency, which boasts a network of 10,000 journalists, is China’s official news agency, as well as one of the leading international news agencies with branches in 190 countries and regions across the world.

NsNewsWire is a first press newswire in Bangladesh which has exclusive relationships with many leading news agencies, dailies and tv channels in Bangladesh and elsewhere in Asia. A number of Bangladesh’s leading print and electronic media journalists, photo journalists and video journalists has been working for NsNewsWire, the editor of which has won the first-ever World Media Summit (WMS) Global Awards for Excellence.