News portal to syndicate international content

TILBURG/BANGKOK – November 30, 2009 – BNO News today announced that it signed a contract with Thaindian News, the second client of the BNO News Wire, a business venture focused on providing comprehensive news coverage to news media companies around the world.

Thaindian News, a news portal based in Bangkok, syndicates news articles from a number of news agencies and produces dozens of news stories daily from its editors. The website targets traffic from search engines such as Google News. Currently, the website reaches more than four million visitors a month, or about 150,000 people daily.

The agreement, for which financial details were not released, will allow Thaindian News to syndicate a selection of news articles from the BNO News Wire. The service is expected to launch in early January.

“Our website targets people who search for news stories on websites such as Google News,” said Sajal Kayan, Thaindian News Editor-in-Chief. “BNO News has shown repeatedly it is able to report first on important stories. This is important for websites such as ours as visitors often trawl websites and search engines to find details on breaking news stories.”

The BNO News Wire was announced last week after MSNBC.com signed up as its first client, and BNO News is currently in talks with other publishers.

“I welcome Thaindian News as the second client of our forthcoming news wire service,” said Michael van Poppel, President and founder of BNO News. “Our discussions with publishers have shown there is a great demand for a new player in the news wire market, especially in the United States, and we hope to welcome additional clients in the near future.”

Additional details about BNO News’ Wire Service will be offered to media organizations and publishers upon request.

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PRESS CONTACTS:
BNO News contact: press@bnonews.com
Thaindian News contact: press@thaindian.com

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Thaindian News: http://www.thaindian.com