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New Sabah Times – English, Malay, and Kadazan-Dusun daily in Sabah, ceased publication on 31 December 2020; Sarawak Tribune – suspended in 2006, but has since been relaunched as the New Sarawak Tribune in 2010. Shin Min Daily News – Malaysia's first Chinese-language tabloid newspaper; publication ceased in 1994
The Borneo Post, established in 1978, is the largest and widely circulated English-language daily newspaper in East Malaysia and also the alternately circulated newspaper in Brunei (as a strong competitor to the main existing newspapers of Pelita Brunei, Borneo Bulletin and also Media Permata, to a lesser extent, the now-defunct Brunei Times). [3]
The New Straits Times Press (initially News [sic?] Straits Times Press Sdn. Bhd.) was formed by the directors of the Directors of The Straits Times Press (Malaysia) Berhad, in a desire to meet the reasonable aspirations of Malaysians to have a majority shareholding in the company which produced the largest mass-circulation organ in the territories of East and West Malaysia.
The Star's dominant position as Malaysia's leading English-language newspaper has, for decades, been of significant benefit to its major shareholder, the Malaysian Chinese Association (MCA) political party (which ruled from the independence of Malaya until 2018 as a junior member of the Barisan Nasional coalition). Between 1997 and 2007, it was ...
It was renamed as the New Straits Times on 13 August 1974. The paper served as Malaysia's only broadsheet format English-language newspaper; however, following the example of British newspapers The Times and The Independent, a tabloid version first rolled off the presses on 1 September 2004 and since 18 April 2005, the newspaper has been ...
Because of troop sensitivities, newspapers from Singapore cannot be sold in Malaysia, hence The Straits Times and other Singapore titles are not sold in Malaysia, while the New Straits Times and other Malaysian titles are not sold in Singapore. The ban was imposed before the 1 May 1969 general election in Malaysia. [11] [12]
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theSun covers national and international news as well as sports, property, media & marketing and lifestyle & entertainment. It has been redesigned with plenty of news briefs to cater to the reading habits of busy executives - the paper's target audience. theSun weekend was launched in the weekend of 15–16 May 2004, a revamp of its Saturday ...