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Lianhe Wanbao (Chinese: 联合晚报; pinyin: Liánhé Wǎnbào; literally Joint Evening News) was a Singapore Chinese-language afternoon newspaper published daily by SPH Media from 16 March 1983 after the merger between the Singaporean editions of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh.
Average daily circulation (2016) [2] zbCOMMA (早报逗号) Chinese SPH Media: weekly tabloid: 1 January 1994; 31 years ago () 54,400 40,400 Good Paper: English "Social Causes" online, [3] free quarterly print and e-copy tabloid: 21 January 2011; 13 years ago () 15,000 (print) Shin Min Daily News (新明日报) Chinese SPH Media
It also merged the Lianhe Wanbao (联合晚报) into the Shin Min Daily News (新明日报) on 24 December 2021, citing the limited number of Chinese media talent in the country, redundancy in content, and a plan to focus on bolstering its digital operations. [13]
The merger led to the formation of Singapore News and Publications, which published the morning paper Lianhe Zaobao as well as the evening paper Lianhe Wanbao. Lianhe Zaobao was the most read newspaper in Singapore among all English and Chinese newspapers, according to a survey conducted by Survey Research Singapore in 1983, with a readership ...
Its main competitor was Lianhe Wanbao, which was also published by the SPH. Wanbao ceased publication on 24 December 2021 and merged into Shin Min. [1] [2] Shin Min was also published in Malaysia until 1994, and it was the first Chinese language newspaper to be published in tabloid.
Singapore's Sin Chew Jit Poh ceased publication in Singapore in March 1983 [3] and subsequently merged with Singapore's branch of Nanyang Siang Pau to become Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao; their parent companies, were merged in 1982 [4] [5] as Singapore News and Publications Limited, a predecessor of Singapore monopoly Singapore Press Holdings.
For his plan, Lee hired two illegal Chinese immigrants he met at a coffee shop near Hougang Plaza. One of the foreigners was 26-year-old Zhou Jian Guang, a China -born native of Fujian Province , who was married with a five-year-old son, and he first came to Singapore to work as a construction worker in order to build a house for his parents ...
On the Saturday afternoon of 28 June 2003, 68-year-old Tan Poh Geat arrived at apartment 39B in one of the areas of Geylang (Singapore's red-light district), looking for the apartment's caretaker, 68-year-old Chi Tue Tiong, whom she employed as a caretaker of both apartments 39B and 37C. [1]