Angola Press News Agency Brazzaville). ANGOP, received in 1990 and 1992, the prize ""International Gold Star for Quality"", awarded by Business Initiative Directions, and in 1996, the ""World Quality Commitment Award"" given by JX BAN Image Art, both companies based in Madrid, both vanity awards. Angola Press News Agency The Angola Press News Agency or Angola Press Agency (ANGOP; ) is the official news agency of Angola, based in Luanda. Founded in 1975, it was a former close ally of the now-defunct Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union. It is part of the . ANGOP was founded in April 1975 under the name "Agência
Cyprus News Agency Pool. In 1984, CNA expanded its activities, hired journalists and other staff and secured translation and distribution of its dispatches in other languages apart from English. In 1989, the Cyprus House of Representatives approved legislation providing for the operation of the Cyprus News Agency as a "semi-governmental" news organisation with full editorial independence. Under the Act, CNA is governed by a seven-member Board of Directors comprising established media professionals. The Board includes representatives of the Cyprus Journalists Union, the Cyprus Newspaper and Magazine Publishers Association, CyBC and the PIO. In 1996, an important year in the development of CNA, news