in the past, when i had studied French, I found the Radio Françe Internationale (RFI) extremely useful because they have a daily podcast of world news in "Simple french," which is to say ordinary adult-level french but spoken less fast-paced and without too much sophistication in the style of expression

it was immensely helpful to helping understand spoken french

can anyone think of any similar resources for Mandarin?

where there's both a written transcript and an audio track or someone reading it, for the news or something comparable?

and it is updated frequently?