BBC News Chinese content goes live on Taiwan’s EBC News

BBC News has further expanded its presence in Taiwan by making a selection of its Chinese-language news content available on the country’s leading news platform, EBC News. The EBC website will offer high-impact stories (text and video) from BBC News Chinese every day.

Business Development Director, BBC World Service, Simon Kendall, welcomes the collaboration with EBC News which is distinguished for its popularity among younger audiences: “We are delighted to be introducing BBC News Chinese content to new audiences in Taiwan through this exciting collaboration with EBC.”

EBC News is the flagship online news platform of multi-award winning broadcaster, Eastern Broadcasting Company, EBC, which also operates eight satellite TV channels in Taiwan.

EBC Television’s chief operating officer, Hans Hsu, says: “To help our audiences gain a deeper understanding of global events, the official website of EBC News chose to cooperate with BBC News Chinese. Thanks to this cooperation, content available to our audiences will be enriched with the latest news as well as analytical comments and background information from the BBC’s international newsgathering network, helping the EBC News website to provide the Taiwanese people with a comprehensive international perspective and timely and trustworthy information.”

BBC News Chinese offers international insights, covering politics, economics, society, culture as well as health, arts, history, LGBT, travel, technology, innovation, and new lifestyles. It is part of BBC World Service which delivers news content around the world in English and 41 other language services, on radio, TV and digital. BBC World Service reaches a weekly audience of 319m. As part of BBC World Service, BBC Learning English teaches English to global audiences. BBC News attracts a weekly global audience of 394m people to its international services including BBC World Service, BBC World News television channel and bbc.com/news.