Information on Lexis-Nexis International News Files

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The Monitoring Service of The British Broadcasting Corporation. With access to broadcasts from 120 countries, the Monitoring Service deals with 50 languages. In monitoring, the BBC emphasizes information from countries for which other news sources are not readily available. It does not cover the United States, Canada or the U.K. Transmissions are published in three print services available through NEWS. Summary of World Broadcasts (SWB) is organized into four areas from which the transmissions originate -- (1) Soviet Union, (2) Eastern Europe, (3) Far East and (4) the Middle East, Africa and Latin America.

The Europe library contains news, business analysis, business opportunities, country profiles, company reports and legal and regulatory sources. These sources report on conditions, events, countries, industries and companies in Europe. This library is designed for those who want to monitor events, organizations and leaders; explore business conditions and opportunities or assess the legal aspects of doing business in Europe.

The Asia and Pacific Rim library contains news, business analysis, business opportunities, country profiles and company reports. These sources report on conditions, events, countries, industries and companies in Asia and the Pacific Rim.

The North and South America library contains news, business analysis, business opportunities, country profiles and company reports. These sources report on conditions, events, countries, industries and companies in Canada and South and Central America. This library is designed for those who want to monitor events, organizations and leaders; explore business conditions and opportunities or assess the legal aspects of doing business in Canada and South and Central America.

The Middle East and Africa library contains news, business analysis, business opportunities, country profiles and company reports. These sources report on conditions, events, countries, industries and companies in the Middle East and Africa. This library is designed for those who want to monitor events, organizations and leaders; explore business conditions and opportunities or assess the legal aspects of doing business in the Middle East and Africa.

The Middle East and Africa library contains news, business analysis, business opportunities, country profiles and company reports. These sources report on conditions, events, countries, industries and companies in the Middle East and Africa. This library is designed for those who want to monitor events, organizations and leaders; explore business conditions and opportunities or assess the legal aspects of doing business in the Middle East and Africa.

MIDEAST MIRROR is a daily digest (Monday through Friday) of news and editorial comment in the Arab, Persian, Turkish and Hebrew media, compiled by correspondents stationed in 11 countries and delivered to subscribers on same day of publication.

COVERAGE: From July 28, 1992 South China Morning Post has a wide news coverage with particular relevance to China, both economically and socially. With two bureaus in China, one in Beijing and one in Shanghai, this gives an edge to independent news coverage from that country. In addition to the latest coverage of local, regional and world, news, South China Morning Post also publishes articles of general interest including business, property, court cases, lifestyle, sports and medicine.

South China Morning Post is divided into two files. The "TSCHIN" file represents the original same-day version of South China Morning Post, the final editied version becoming available two to three days later in the "SCHINA" file. It is stressed here that the same-day data in "TSCHIN" may contain errors, duplicate documents and omissions which are subsequently corrected in the final version. However, the value of the TSCHIN file is obviously its currency. The same-day data will normally become available by about 3 AM EST. In the "2WEEK" file in the TOPNWS Library, the same-day versions are replaced by the final edited versions as they become available.

COVERAGE: From January 1, 1977 Xinhua, or New China News Agency, is the official news agency of the People's Republic of China. It is an authoritative source for information on Chinese government affairs, economic performance and Chinese views on world affairs. All Western news correspondents in Beijing rely on Xinhua's English-language news report to keep abreast of Chinese affairs. The agency reports on Chinese affairs, including the economy, industry, trade, agriculture, sports and culture. Coverage includes diplomatic changes and extensive international reporting often from Africa or the Middle East. Materials in the XINHUA file appear in lower case letters as they are transmitted. Publications and wire services use either the Wade-Giles or Pinyin dialect system of transliteration for Chinese names, for example, Peking and Beijing, Canton and Guangzhou, and China and Zhonghua. These words are equivalents in the NEXIS service; therefore, searching for one version will automatically retrieve the other.

FILE-NAME: ALLNWS LIBRARY-NAME: GERMAN COMPLETE FILE: Associated Press-German, APGRMN Computerwoche, COMPWC Deutsche Bank Bulletin - German, DBBLTD Deutsche Bank Company Report - German, DBCOD Deutsche Bank Deutschland-Theman - German, DBDEUT Deutsche Bank Osteuropa-Theman - German, DBOSTE Deutsche Bank Perspektiven - German, DBPERS Deutsche Bank Special Reports - German, DBSPED Deutsche Verkehrs-Zeitung, DVERKZ Die Woche, WOCHE Finanz und Wirtschaft, FUW Focus Magazine, FOCUSD GBI BLISS Betriebswirtschaftliches, BLISS Harvard Business Manager, HBM Horizont, HORZNT Lebensmittel Zeitung, LEBZTG Messeplaner, MESSE Neue Zuercher Zeitung, NZZ Sueddeutsche Zeitung, SDZ TextilWirtschaft, TEXTIL Werben Und Verkaufen, WRBVKN taz, die tageszeitung, TAZ

COVERAGE: From January 1, 1992 La Stampa is one of the most authoritative sources of news and events in Italy. Headquartered in Turin, La Stampa is the third largest Italian daily with a circulation of over 530,000 copies per day. Main subjects covered are Politics, Business, Science, Sport and general news. More than 80% of information is devoted to Italian life with the remainder providing coverage of international events. A powerful feature of this database is the ability to search the SUBJECT and the type field using both English and/or Italian search terms.

Asahi News Service is an English-language service launched in September 1982 by the Asahi Shimbun, one of the world's largest mass circulation dailies. The New York Times Syndication Sales Corporation selects articles from Asahi News Service and makes them available to the world press on a daily basis. Asahi News Service provides global coverage of economic, financial, political and technological news with concentration on Japan and Southeast Asia. The main emphasis is in-depth reporting of business news, including articles on trade between Japan and Western nations, protectionism and financial analyses. The articles discuss the booming Japanese economy and powerful business community along with international coverage of economic trends and relationships between the major world powers.

Report From Japan is an executive information service published in cooperation with The Yomiuri Shimbun, Japan's leading newspaper. The Yomiuri Shimbun supplies Report From Japan with the services of more than 1,700 reporters in Japan for unequalled coverage of Japanese news, rather than news about Japan. The goal of Report From Japan is to provide western businessmen, professionals and academics with timely news and information about events in a rapidly changing Japan.

The Daily Yomiuri, published in Tokyo by the Yomiuri Shimbun, has a circulation of 60,000, the highest of all the English-language dailies published by Japanese newspapers. In addition to stories by its own writers, The Daily Yomiuri provides translated articles, columns, and editorials from The Yomiuri Shimbun. Comprehensive coverage is provided of Japanese society and government, as well as business, politics,sportsand culture. With a circulation of over 10 million, the Yomiuri Shimbun is the most influential daily in Japan and is the largest newspaper in the world. By drawing on the Yormiuris 3100 correspondents from 400-plus worldwide news bureaus, The Daily Yomiuri database includes the most accurate and in-depth news coverage of Japan that is available in English.

The Mainichi Daily News is an English-language daily published by the Mainichi Newspapers Co., Japan's oldest and one of its leading newspaper companines. The Mainichi Daily News, edited and printed in Tokyo and Osaka, widely covers domestic, international and community news for foreigners living in Japan, who make up 70 percent of its readership. The Mainichi Daily News extensively reports on politics, economics and social issues in the country, using the company's news network of five head offices in Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, Sapporo and Fukuoka along with 280 bureaus spread throughout the country. The Mainichi Daily News's reports, especially political and economic coverage, receive high marks for their in-depth analysis.

The Current Digest of the Soviet Press selects, translates and abstracts articles from the press of the Soviet Union. CDSP systematically surveys approximately 90 newspapers and periodicals that make up the most significant element of the Soviet press. Much of its material is drawn from Pravda, the official Communist Party newspaper; Izvestia, the official government paper; and Tass, the official wire service. Other items are drawn from Sovetskaya kultura, Literaturnaya gazeta, Ekonomicheskaya gazeta, regional newspapers and specialized economic magazines. CDSP does not survey scientific journals. Although it concentrates on politics, foreign affairs and economics, CDSP also covers Soviet reporting on such topics as agriculture, industry, literature, arts, law, medicine, education, religion, sports and family life. Three types of coverage are used. Some reports are marked "condensed text" or "excerpts" which may be long or short; ellipses indicate where material has been omitted. Reports marked "abstract" summarize articles in whole or part. Some items are marked "complete text" and contain the full text of official announcements, appointments, etc.

"Kremlin Package" consists of same day, English translations of verbatim transcripts of press conferences and speeches in the USSR by Gorbachev, Shevardnadze, Ligachev, Yeltsin, Gerasimov, Maslennikov, Minister of Defense, Chairman of KBG, etc. For the first time you can now receive same day official Soviet policy pronouncements on wide ranging matters of international interest involving defense, immigration, economic, political and cultural matters. Also includes the verbatim texts of the official daily Russian television newscasts including Vremya for the past three years for comparison of radically changing Russian policies.

The Russian Press Digest, formerly Soviet Press Digest provides daily English translations of the most interesting news and feature articles in the major Moscow daily, weekly and monthly newspapers as well as the principal provincial press, covering over 100 periodicals. Compiled and translated daily by professional Russian journalists.

The Moscow Times is Russia's first and leading English language daily newspaper and has become the primary source of news to the growing number of foreign businessmen, diplomats and journalists living and working in Moscow and St Petersburg. The newspaper, which has appeared five days per week since October 1992, covers political, business and cultural news from within the former Soviet Union.

TASS (The Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union) is the official Soviet news agency. The English language newswire sends more than 100 stories each day covering official statements, domestic happenings, political and economic news, international events, and comments on world affairs in general. TASS is particularly valuable as a source of information about life and important events in the USSR as well as in other Eastern Bloc countries and the rest of the world. (For TASS stories between 1979 and 1987 refer to the BBCSWB file). This file is useful for locating information on the latest Soviet scientific and technical developments, keeping up to date with the movement of key economic and political conditions in the USSR, and gaining the Soviet perspective on world events.

The Mexico Publications or MEXPUB group file contains news and business materials that originate in Mexico. Most of these materials are in Spanish and contain the full text of the publications. To display the segment names in Spanish in FULL format, type COMPLETO. To display the segment names in Spanish in Kwik format, type Rapido.