📰 PR Newswire Asia Press Releases Scraper — The Only English-Language Asia Press Wire on Apify

The PR Newswire Asia Press Releases Scraper pulls structured press releases from en.prnasia.com — the English-language Asia distribution arm of Cision (sibling of PR Newswire US and PR Web). PR Newswire Asia distributes ~200 English releases per day from mainland China, Hong Kong, Japan, Korea, Southeast Asia, and India — making it the highest-signal source for English-language Asia corporate news.

This is the only English-language Asia press wire on the Apify Store. If you are tracking Chinese ADR earnings, Southeast-Asia IPOs, Japanese M&A, Korean tech announcements, or India IPO filings — and you want the announcements in English the moment they hit the wire — this scraper is the only off-the-shelf path.

Why PR Newswire Asia Beats the Alternatives

Source	English Asia coverage	Reader API	Notes
PR Newswire US (scraper)	Limited (US-issuer focus)	Via NexGenData	Misses native Asia issuers
GlobeNewswire (scraper)	US/EU dominant	Via NexGenData	Few Asia-domiciled issuers
Business Wire	US/EU dominant	None	No bulk reader API
Xinhua / China Daily	Not press-wire format	None	Editorial, not corporate releases
PR Newswire Asia (this scraper)	Native Asia (~200/day)	Pay-per-release JSON	Only English Asia wire on Apify

What You Get

For every release:

• Canonical en.prnasia.com URL
• Release ID (Cision internal)
• Headline (JSON-LD NewsArticle.headline)
• Description / lead paragraph
• Full body text
• Publication timestamp (ISO 8601 UTC, from JSON-LD datePublished)
• Modification timestamp (ISO 8601 UTC, from JSON-LD dateModified)
• Source / issuing company (parsed from Cision /PRNewswire/ dateline block)
• Dateline location (city/region the release was issued from)
• Country / region bucket (Asia vs Global)
• Distribution category
• Primary image URL (mma.prnasia.com CDN)
• List datetime snapshot

Inputs

• searchQuery — keyword filter on headline + body (empty = no filter).
• region — all / china / hk / japan / korea / sea / india. SE Asia covers Singapore, Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines.
• maxResults — 1–500. Each release = one dataset row charged at the per-release primary event price.
• fromDate / toDate — YYYY-MM-DD UTC inclusive bounds.

How It Works

The actor routes all requests through Apify residential proxy automatically. PR Newswire Asia rate-limits aggressively (HTTP 429 after ~3 rapid requests from the same IP), so the residential proxy is mandatory — no captcha, just IP-based throttling. You do not need to enable proxy in the input; it is on by default.

The scraper:

1. Pulls the homepage and /releases/ list page through the residential proxy (24 cards each, newest-first).
2. For each candidate release, fetches the detail page and parses the JSON-LD NewsArticle block plus the Cision section.release-body body container.
3. Applies the region / keyword / date filters server-side before charging — you do not pay for releases that fall outside your filter.
4. Pushes one row per matching release, charging the primary event once per row.

Use Cases

• Cross-border M&A tracking — surface Asia-side announcements before they hit Western financial press.
• Asia market intelligence — corporate strategy, product launches, regulatory disclosures from Asia-domiciled issuers.
• China company news monitoring — Chinese ADRs, state-owned enterprise announcements, mainland tech earnings — in English, real-time.
• Equity research — filter by region + ticker keyword to pull every release from a watchlist of Asia-listed names.
• PR firm competitive intel — see what your competitors' clients are pushing through the Cision Asia wire.
• Sales prospecting — newly-funded SE Asia and India startups announcing rounds in English.

Related NexGenData Scrapers

If you are building an Asia data pipeline, pair this with:

• PR Newswire (US) — the US-side Cision wire (overlap on dual-listed issuers).
• GlobeNewswire — secondary US/EU corporate wire.
• PR Web — long-tail SMB wire.
• China data cluster: Eastmoney Stock Quotes and China Trends Tracker for market context on the names you find here.

Pricing

Pay-per-event. You are charged:

• $0.00005 per actor start — covers one start of the Docker image.
• $0.15 per Asia release — primary event, charged once per row pushed to your dataset, after filters apply.

Premium over PR Web's $0.10/release because of the Asia-niche moat: this is the only English-language Asia press wire on Apify, and there is no off-the-shelf substitute.

Sample Output

{
  "url": "https://en.prnasia.com/releases/apac/zetrix-ai-shenzhen-data-exchange-to-unlock-value-of-asean-china-data-through-cross-border-trading-platform-534183.shtml",
  "release_id": "534183",
  "headline": "Zetrix AI, Shenzhen Data Exchange to Unlock Value of ASEAN-China Data Through Cross-Border Trading Platform",
  "description": "Zetrix AI today announced a strategic collaboration with the Shenzhen Data Exchange…",
  "body_text": "SHENZHEN, China, May 22, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Zetrix AI, the Asia-Pacific leader in …",
  "date_published": "2026-05-22T12:00:00+08:00",
  "date_modified": "2026-05-22T12:00:00+08:00",
  "source_company": "Zetrix AI",
  "dateline_location": "SHENZHEN",
  "country_region": "Asia",
  "category": "Technology",
  "image_url": "https://mma.prnasia.com/media2/2986212/image1.jpg?p=medium600",
  "list_datetime": "2026-05-22 14:39",
  "source": "en.prnasia.com"
}

Notes

• Releases are returned newest-first. Set maxResults to control depth (1 day of feed ≈ 200 releases).
• Region filter is heuristic (matches against dateline + body). For a hard guarantee, post-filter on dateline_location in your dataset.
• The /PRNewswire/ source-company parser is a regex on the Cision dateline pattern. If a release uses a non-standard preamble, source_company may be null — fall back to headline or body_text[:200].