Support : Publications : Chronolog Archives : January/February 2005

Dialog NewsRoom Sources Continue to Grow

Since the launch in 2002 with 6,500 sources, Dialog NewsRoom has continued to expand its breadth of sources, increasing the number from 8,000 to 10,000 within just the last six months. Dialog NewsRoom now offers a broader range of broadcast transcripts, newspapers, periodicals, newswires, trade and scholarly journals and expanded coverage with the recent addition of news reporting from Europe and hard-to-monitor countries such as China, Cuba, India, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan and Serbia. New sources are continually being added to provide the most comprehensive news and analysis sources available today.

New Sources

Actusnews provides press releases and official statements in French and English from French listed companies. These documents are related to corporate or financial information, or information related to the financial and economic structure of the companies. Content is provided on more than 100 companies listed on the French market, with a large contribution from small and midcaps. Coverage includes 2004 to the present with continuous daily updates.

Thai News Service is the only English language news service in Thailand using press, broadcast, business and official media sources. Thai News Service provides daily reports that are useful for investment and business analysis, as well as academic research. Coverage is from 2002 to the present and content comprises daily news from Thailand covering investment, finance, trade and politics including:

• Reports from various media in Thailand, with summary translations of Thai language articles emphasizing business, political and social issues
  
  
• Stock market news and analyses, including company analysis
  
  
• Official reports and announcements by the Bank of Thailand, the Securities and Exchange Commission, The Ministry of Finance and other government agencies
  
  
• Analysis and commentary on business and political developments
  
  
• Research articles on the economy and major industries

New Content

New content from Aii Data Processing significantly increases the business and corporate coverage on Dialog NewsRoom. Aii Data, one of Europe's largest abstracting services, is produced every working day, providing comprehensive corporate, financial and other business information, mostly not covered by the major news agencies. Additional features of the Aii content include:

• Web site URLs of companies and organizations covered in the abstract
  
  
• Alternative spelling of names of companies, organizations and people
  
  
• All currencies reported in Euros and U.S. dollars
  
  
• Editor notes, offering background missing in the original article, which in most cases is written for local readers familiar with the respective companies and events
  
  
• Name of covered company shown in the headline with the essence of the news in the leading paragraph
  
  
• Clarification of geographic location of cities and regions

News services offered include:

• Latin America News Digest is a daily abstracting service in English providing comprehensive coverage of general, macroeconomic, financial, corporate and other business related news and information from all Latin American newspapers, media, state institutions, official statistics, corporate press releases and industry journals. Coverage includes October 2003 to the present.
  
  
• Dutch News Digest is a daily abstracting service in English, which covers the top Dutch newspapers, magazines, news portals and company information and offers corporate, financial, macroeconomic and business news from March 2003 to the present.
  
  
• Chinese News Digest, covering November 2003 to the present, is a daily abstracting service in English, covering China, Hong Kong and Macao, and provides corporate, industry and economic news.
  
  
• SeeNews (South East European Newswire) is an independent English-language newswire carrying valuable information from the countries of southeastern Europe tailored for professionals in the corporate sector, media, financial services, state institutions and governments and international organizations.
  
  The newswire covers corporate, business, economic, market, political and general news from Romania, Bulgaria, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia and Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Albania and Moldova from April 2004 to date. It monitors key economic indicators of the countries, delivers regular reports on markets and provides special focus on corporate and industry events, on-the-spot interviews with economists, leading market experts, politicians, instant views of analysts and comparative articles on major topics in the region.
  
  
• Infos Economie Finance is a French language business news selection, which focuses on Europe and provides unique coverage, including news not available in French via major information providers. Coverage is from April 2003 to date.

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