Chapter 16: Press, Broadcasting, Films and Tourism
PRESS
MORE than 150 newspapers and magazines of various kinds are published in Hong Kong. About a dozen are published in English, but most are in Chinese. A few are bilingual. The main ones are listed in Appendix XVIII.
International news agencies are represented by the Associated Press of America, the French News Agency (Agence France-Presse), Reuter (in association with the Australian Associated Press), and the United Press. Each of these four agencies maintains permanent correspondents in Hong Kong and furnishes news services to local newspapers.
Offices are also maintained in Hong Kong by the inde- pendent Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, the New China News Agency (official agency of the Chinese Government), the Central News Agency of the Taiwan administration, and the Japanese agencies, Jiji Press and Kyodo News Service.
Foreign correspondents regularly resident in the Colony number about 35. Most are British, American and Japanese writers. The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Daily News, Observer (London), Toronto Star, and several other foreign publishing houses maintain permanent representatives based on Hong Kong. The Time and Life magazine organization moved its South-East Asia bureau from Singapore to Hong Kong towards the end of 1956 and now has four American staff men in the Colony. Leading broadcasting and television networks also maintain corre- spondents and cameramen in the Colony. During the year over 100 foreign correspondents visited Hong Kong.
Four English-language newspapers are published. Three of
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