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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.
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 ...
Singapore Press Holdings Limited (SPH) was formed on August 4, 1984, through a merger of three organisations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad. [3] SPH readership has stagnated since the early-2000s, as Singaporeans increasingly turned to online media for their news consumption. [4]
Straits Times Online Mobile Print (also abbreviated as STOMP or S.T.O.M.P) is a Singapore-based web aggregator and citizen journalism web portal managed by the SPH Media. Controversy [ edit ]
News Tonight (formerly News 5 Tonight, News 5 and before 1994 as just News) is a Singapore English long-running main flagship daily main evening nightly television news bulletin programme on Mediacorp Channel 5 since its inception which runs daily from 9:00pm to 9:30pm Singapore Time on daily/public holidays, providing a round-up of all the day's events around Singapore, as well as coverage of ...
[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]
The disruption caused significant increases in travel times, with The Straits Times reporting that a typical journey from Jurong East to Redhill took approximately 90 minutes instead of the usual 21 minutes. Queues at bus stops serving the affected stations were as long as 100 metres (330 ft).
The New Paper is often compared to the tabloid Today, although the latter positions itself against The Straits Times. The New Paper targets readers with more eye-catching tabloid journalism featuring sensationalist headlines. It tends to focus on local human-interest stories, with extensive sections on entertainment, fashion and sports.