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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.
[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 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]
As of 2008, there are 16 newspapers in active circulation. Daily newspapers are published in English, Chinese, Malay and Tamil. Under a reciprocal agreement between Malaysia and Singapore, Malaysia's the New Straits Times newspaper may not be sold in Singapore, and Singapore's The Straits Times may not be sold in Malaysia. This is largely due ...
The newspaper's average daily sales had dropped to 60,000, according to Warren Fernandez, Editor-in-Chief of the English/Malay/Tamil Media group of SPH, before it became a freesheet. [ 6 ] On 17 October 2016, Singapore Press Holdings announced a 10% cut of staff, [ 7 ] [ 8 ] [ 9 ] and that My Paper and The New Paper (TNP) would be merged to ...
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 ]
Sin Chew Jit Poh was a Singapore newspaper. It was founded by Aw Boon Haw in Singapore. In the 1960s, it started its Malaysian bureau in Petaling Jaya, with full function printing house. Malaysian edition started to become a separate sister newspaper since they have the full function