Ask HN: What Are Some Good African, Asian, South American News Websites?
I'm constantly looking to build and increase my knowledge of the world, but I realised the 'World' section of many news websites I follow (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc) do not have a particular large amount of African, Asian, South American news.
What news websites do you guys know/recommend to follow for news in these countries? Language would preferably be in English.
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[ 1.5 ms ] story [ 72.8 ms ] threadThe OP is specifically looking for sources that do not have western bias. And I hope my opinion will be useful.
I often stumble across their articles, and often they are quite good. I'd be interested to hear more about their politics and biases so I know better how interpret their coverage. Is there a Western source they would be considered to be aligned with, or are they unique?
"The journal was founded by Australian-born anti-Qing dynasty revolutionary Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_China_Morning_Post
It's strange you think it is something to be recommended pre-alibaba, but not something to be recommended post-alibaba.
That the Chinese government praised Sun Yat-sen, and printed a commemorative coin for his 150th birthday, seems at odds with your sentiment.
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-10/25/content_271713...
"Born in Grafton, New South Wales, to a "patriotic" Chinese, Tse Yat-cheong (謝日昌), Tse Tsan-tai was baptised James See on 1 November 1879."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tse_Tsan-tai
When I wrote anti-chinese, I meant at the time - qing china. And the SCMP was created by a british "journalist" and Tse specifically to push anti-chinese propaganda at that time.
> That the Chinese government praised Sun Yat-sen, and printed a commemorative coin for his 150th birthday, seems at odds with your sentiment.
Why? The CCP can choose to celebrate parts of sun yat-sen's legacy which aligns with their own ideology - especially the destruction of china's feudal system. Also, you can praise sun yat-sen as a larger part of reincorporating taiwan back to the mainland.
We celebrate Robert E. Lee, does it make the US anti-US? Hell in the 1970s, the US celebrate Mao and Deng in order to grow our relationship. Doesn't make the US pro-communist.
Ah, okay. I read your original post as critical of scmp as anti Chinese today, but am not sure if that's what you meant now.
SCMP is owned by Alibaba Group, one of the largest companies in mainland China. Do you really think it's possible for Alibaba to have _any_ part of it that's outside of the CCP's grasp?
Their coverage of the middle-East is likely to be biased by their Qatari ownership, but they cover major world stories neglected by the Western press. More details about their potential bias here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Jazeera_controversies_and_c....
It is funded by the state of Qatar to act as its mouthpiece. In the Islamic world every country legitimizes itself by trying to sound more islamic than the other.
I am just stating that they may be strongly biased. They do make crisp documentaries and interesting news stories.
I would put their bias on par with CNN, but would like a story to see what you mean. What is a good example?
here is an article about a video they published which they took down after enough backlash. imagine what articles / videos were just as biased but didn't get taken down
Particularly politics and environmental issues, for example Glenn Greenwald lives and has been reporting in Brazil.
Some good advice someone gave me awhile ago was to follow journalists themselves instead of news outlets
What's the point? They are all essentially the same news company. They push the same narrative and agenda. Just pick one and move on with your day.
The problem is that a lot of african, asian and south american news companies are created by, owned by or run by by westerners. And most of them, like the SCMP, were created by the west to push western propaganda. So essentially, you aren't getting african, asian and south american news. You are getting western propaganda about african, asian and south american news.
Also, africa, asia and south america are huge continents. I don't think there is such a thing called "african, asian and south american" news.
For geopolitical news, xinhua/cgtn for china, rt for russia, al jazeera, etc. They are all biased propaganda, just like the (NYTimes, Wash Post, Guardian, BBC, FT, WSJ etc), but you get a different biased perspective. I find that they are generally good at pointing each others lies.
> What news websites do you guys know/recommend to follow for news in these countries? Language would preferably be in English.
Why not just follow vlogs of countries you are interested? Or visit the countries you are interested in? Or find some forums/irc/etc of the countries you are interested in and talk directly to the people?
News, by and large, is a great waste of time. Most of it is toxic nonsense written by people who know nothing about the subject they are covering.
^IMO hands down the best site for geopolitical editorial coverage of Asia.
https://www.thehindu.com/