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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.
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.
On the evening of 9 January 2003, at one of the flats in Chai Chee, 49-year-old delivery driver Ler Lee Mong returned home from work but upon his arrival, he noticed the door of his flat was left open, and there were bloodstains on the floor.
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 ...
In September 1999, in order to discharge his bankruptcy, 33-year-old Vincent Lee Chuan Leong (李泉梁 Lǐ Quánliáng), a Singaporean marketing manager, together with Shi Song Jing (施松进 Shī Sōngjìn) and Zhou Jian Guang (周建光 Zhōu Jiànguāng), who were both illegal immigrants from China, kidnapped a 14-year-old female student in Singapore.
It was also the prosecution's contention that Tan was responsible for stabbing Lee to death, and they referred to a statement of Tan where he mentioned stabbing Lee during a fierce struggle and only learned of Lee's death through the local Chinese newspaper Lianhe Wanbao. During the course of trial, the trio denied murdering Lee, especially Tan ...
The newspaper merged with Singaporean edition of Sin Chew Jit Poh on 16 March 1983 to form the current Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao and has ceased to exist. [9] A version of the newspaper is still in print in Malaysia.
On 25 July 1980, 16-year-old student Ong Ai Siok (王爱素 Wáng Aìsù), birth name Goh Luan Kheng (吴鸾琼 Wú Luánqióng), who stayed at home to study overnight while her adoptive parents went out for supper, was murdered by her unemployed relative Lau Ah Kiang (刘亚强 Líu Yàqiáng), who entered her home to commit robbery as a result of his desperation to discharge his debts and ...