TOKYO, Sept. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyodo News has launched a fully redesigned website for its English-language service as part of efforts to strengthen its multilingual and multimedia services.
The new site is more user-friendly with such tools as News Reader, which enables users to read the latest headlines in registered news categories, and Read It Later, which allows users to save stories for future reading. It also carries bigger photos with a slideshow function.
The new site offers a wide range of subscription options according to customer needs. These include membership for access to all stories, for selected news categories and for archive search services. On the previous site, only full membership for corporate clients was available. In the near future, the new site will also offer subscription options specifically to individual customers.
The Kyodo News English-language service covers developments around the globe 24 hours a day, with a particular focus on Japan and the Asia-Pacific region. It transmits over 200 news stories daily on topics ranging from politics and the economy to crime and accidents, science and sports.
For further information, please contact the Information & Marketing Division, K.K. Kyodo News, by email (its address shown at the bottom). For subscription, visit the Kyodo News site (http://english.kyodonews.jp).
Subscription Options Currently Available:
1) To read news stories: |
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-- "Full Access Membership" permits access to the full text of all stories in all news categories, and allows archive search for stories/photos dating back up to 10 years. |
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-- "Limited Category Membership" permits access to the full text of all stories in up to three news categories chosen out of four categories* (specified below), and allows archive search for stories/photos dating back up to three years. |
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-- "Database Membership" permits access to the full text of all stories in all news categories (excluding stories from the past month), and allows archive search for stories/photos without any time limit. |
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Nonsubscribers can access story headlines only (excluding the day's main stories and those in some categories) in all news categories. Archive search is allowed for stories/photos dating back up to three months. |
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*Four categories for "Limited Category Membership" |
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-- Politics: Domestic politics, diplomacy, parliament, political parties, etc. |
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-- Economy/Business: Fiscal and monetary policies, trade, corporate news, foreign exchange, stock and bond markets, etc. |
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-- Society: Crime and accidents, disasters, trials, imperial family, science, etc. |
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-- Sports: Baseball, soccer, sumo, golf, etc. (results and other data also available) |
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Note: When you select two or three categories, you cannot select politics and economy/business at the same time. |
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2) To receive the latest breaking news: |
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"Newsflash Membership" - Kyodo News delivers one-line breaking news by email. This service is available to subscribers with "Full Access Membership" free of charge. Otherwise, this service requires a specific subscription. |
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CONTACT: |
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Naoki Matsuura |
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Information & Marketing Division |
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K.K. Kyodo News |
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e-mail: [email protected] |
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SOURCE K.K. Kyodo News
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