China to launch its own CNN

The Chinese competitor to CNN is to launcj at the end of this week.

China's state-run Xinhua News Agency has been putting together its own 24-hour satellite news channel for the past year and will begin broadcasting reports from a Chinese perspective next month to viewers around the world in conjunction with CCTV's existing English-language channel.

reports the Chosum Ilbo

Broadcasting from the Chinese capital an official said

"Just as Al Jazeera has an Arab point of view, CITV intends to report global news from a Chinese, rather than a Western, perspective,"

Ht-Adrian Monck