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COOCON Participates in Singapore FinTech Festival 2025
COOCON (CEO Kim Jong-hyun, KOSDAQ 294570), a leading business data platform company, participated in the Singapore FinTech Festival (SFF) 2025, held at Singapore EXPO from November 12 to 14, and showcased its next-generation Global Payment Service. COOCON’s Global Payment Service is an innovative solution that allows overseas payment service providers to offer real-time payment services in the Korean market without the need for separate infrastructure. International users can conveniently make...
Digital Verification Journalist (F/M)
Digital Verification Journalist (F/M)
THE JOB
AFP is seeking a digital verification reporter with strong digital investigation and precise writing skills to join its Kuala Lumpur bureau to report on disinformation in Malaysia.
The role is an exciting opportunity to be a part of AFP's fast-growing fact-checking network, which has seen it take a leading role in the global fight against disinformation.
Agence Havas founded
Charles Havas creates Agence Havas as Agence des Feuilles Politiques.
As the world’s first international news agency, it uses a network of correspondents and translators. Trains and homing pigeons bring in the news to Paris from all over France and other European countries.
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Carrier pigeons
Charles Havas uses carrier pigeons to deliver the news faster than the official State services.
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The first offices
From 1835 to 1875, the Agence Havas offices are located on rue
Jean-Jacques Rousseau in Paris,
opposite the General Post Office.
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Telegraph first used
The Agency starts to use electrical telegraphs, an invention which enables it to expand.
Soon it is better and faster informed of what is going on in the world.
In response to the Crimean war (1854-1856) it extends its European network all the way to Saint Petersburg and the Bosphorus.
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Editor - Asia Pacific News desk (F/M)
Editor - Asia Pacific News desk (F/M)
AFP is looking for a dynamic and experienced editor to join its English-language news desk at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
ROLE
Agence France-Presse (AFP), one of the world's leading news agencies, is looking for a dynamic, experienced editor to join its English-language newsdesk at its Asia-Pacific headquarters in Hong Kong.
Factcheck editor for North America (F/M)
Factcheck editor for North America (F/M)
Global news leader AFP is offering an exciting opportunity to be a part of the agency’s fast-growing digital verification network, which has taken a frontline role in combatting misinformation, fact-checking and monitoring emerging narratives that shape public perceptions of news events around the world.
The editor will focus on misinformation in North America and edit fact-checking stories from around the region.
JOURNALIST, MOSCOW
JOURNALIST, MOSCOW
THE JOB
The Moscow bureau covers a busy, complex and fascinating region of 280 million people: Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The journalist, who will be writing in English, will cover breaking news in a highly competitive environment, showing strong news judgement and the ability to write punchy, engaging copy. You will generate lively, image-rich feature and focus stories in close cooperation with other members of a dynamic multimedia team.