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Chinese and African media houses on Monday agreed to deepen cooperation in 
information sharing, best practice and training to improve the dissemination of 
information about Sino-Africa relations.
At the China-Africa Media Forum held Monday in Johannesburg, over 40 media 
delegates from China and 11 African countries gathered to explore new areas of 
cooperation.
Guo Weimin, deputy director of the State Council Information Office of China, 
said the media should complement the political, economic and people friendships 
which are existing. Chinese and African media should counter the Western media 
which tend to portray the continent as that characterized by wars 
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poverty.
"The Chinese and the African media should counter the Western media 
stereotype. You should report truthfully about the Sino-Africa relations. The 
Chinese and African media should walk hand in hand and strengthen reporting in 
international affairs and make our voices heard on issues of fairness and 
rationality," said Guo.
Guo called on Chinese and African media to forge new structures on 
cooperation in the media and challenge the monopoly of the western media.
Lin Songtian, Chinese Ambassador to South Africa said the media should 
articulate success stories of both partners. He said China is in Africa for a 
win win situation to help build infrastructure, transfer skills and create jobs, 
and the media should work towards strengthening the Sino-Africa relations.
"African and Chinese media should work towards common development. We have to 
build the positive image of our relations, share our common values 
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common interest. Both sides should stand up and loudly tell people of the world 
who their true and reliable friend is," said Lin.
Lin challenged the Western media to visit the quality infrastructural 
projects in Kenya, Zambia, Ethiopia and other African countries so as to report 
factually.
Tendai Manzvanzvike, Zimbabwe's Herald chief editor said Sino-Africa 
cooperation is required to break the Western media monopoly which is meant to 
suit a particular agenda.
"No African country is in a win-win situation with the West, but they have 
with China. Opportunities abound for media cooperation 
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that can be vehicles for development and prosperity. One of the issues that the 
African media has to learn from its Chinese counterparts is reporting on 
developmental issues, reports that would enable development-oriented policy 
making by governments," she added.
She hailed China for improving the information technology infrastructure 
thereby benefiting the African media. The Zimbabwean praised China for offering 
African media practitioners training and refresher courses. Manzvanzvike 
suggested that resources should be availed to enable more Chinese media 
practitioners reporting the African story from African media houses, and vice 
versa.
"Instead of having a few media personnel trained in Mandarin, it should be a 
major requirement that schools that offer journalism and media studies include 
foreign languages, and one of the key languages should be Mandarin 
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Kevin Ritchie, regional executive editor of Independent Media, said South 
Africa's BRICS membership has enabled the country an opportunity to harness with 
a different part of the world particularly nations with very similar backgrounds 
and challenges.
"BRICS not only offers us a very real opportunity to mitigate these risks 
both economically and socially, but in particular by being able to provide and 
contribute to a different narrative, which is precisely where we come in as the 
media. There are many outside of the BRICS arc, particularly in the traditional 
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interest in seeing BRICS fail or ignoring it altogether," he added.
Ritchie said media organizations within BRICS are duty bound to place the 
bloc story on the agenda. They (BRICS media) have a duty to report about 
economic opportunities and other success stories.
"As media from China and South Africa, we can use this opportunity to forge 
bonds, to learn from one another, to discuss the shortcomings we might have and 
find solutions to problems that are actually common to both of us, reflecting 
the needs of our realities 
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Andrew Kagwa Gathaara, chief editor of Kenya's Standard said Chinese media 
practitioners are currently on attachment in African media houses, and they have 
employed Africans to tell their own story.
With the theme of Win-win Cooperation for Common Progress, the China-Africa 
Media Forum was hosted by the State Council Information Office of China, and 
co-organized by China's Xinhua News Agency and South Africa's Independent Media.
MOSCOW, July 11 (Xinhua) -- President Vladimir Putin said Friday Russia will 
introduce a specialized visa-free entry policy during the FIFA World Cup it 
hosts in 2018.
"We have confirmed in a law a special regime for the foreigners working for 
preparations of the World Cup-2018 
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reporters.
"Besides, on the eve and during the event, not only its participants but also 
the fans could come to Russia without visas," Itar-Tass news agency quoted him 
as saying.
This will be the first time ever that a host country lifts all visa 
restrictions during a major football championship, Putin noted.
He promised to do everything to make World Cup-2018 an "unforgettable 
festivity" and to provide the highest level of hospitality.
For that end, Russia will use its experience in organizing and hosting of the 
Winter Olympic Games 
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would also study the experience of 2016 Summer Olympics due in Brazil, host of 
the ongoing FIFA World Cup.
The overall cost of the World Cup-2018 is estimated at 20 billion U.S. 
dollars. Most of the money will be spent on the .