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The Singapore Tiger Standard, an English morning daily newspaper, was accused as "anti-Merdeka" by S. Rajaratnam, [7] and was closed in 1959 after the People's Action Party came to power. [ 8 ] In 1971, the Government crackdown on newspapers perceived to be under foreign influence or with subversive tendencies; saw the closing of The Eastern ...
London newsboy Ned Parfett with news of the Titanic disaster, April 16, 1912. A newspaper hawker, newsboy or newsie is a street vendor of newspapers without a fixed newsstand. Related jobs included paperboy, delivering newspapers to subscribers, and news butcher, selling papers on trains. Adults who sold newspapers from fixed newsstands were ...
From 8 September 2016, the portal also presents news from two other Singapore Press Holdings Chinese-language newspapers, Lianhe Wanbao and Shin Min Daily News. [9] According to The Washington Post, "Zaobao's combined print and digital circulation in Singapore fell from 187,900 in 2015 to 144,000 in 2020, according to company filings." [4]
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Kristen Choong had accepted her family's decades-old noodle stall in Singapore would likely fold when she retires. Now, battling a 90% drop in business due to the coronavirus pandemic, she is ...
[3] [4] At the archive's launch, it included 14 newspapers, [5] including the New Nation, Sin Chew Jit Poh, [6] Nanyang Siang Pau, Berita Harian, the Singapore Weekly Herald, the Straits Mail, [3] The Business Times, today, Streats, the Malayan Saturday Post, the Straits Observer, and the Straits Telegraph and Daily Advertiser. [7]
Aside from complaining about the weather and/or the government, another Singaporean hobby involves talking up the local food culture (the late Anthony Bourdain could have testified to that).
The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. [2] [3] [4] Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience.