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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 of 689,000 on weekdays and 743,000 on Sundays. [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 ...
It owns several major newspapers in the country, including the English-language The Straits Times and The Business Times, Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao and Shin Min Daily News, Malay-language Berita Harian, and the Tamil Murasu. The company also publishes magazines and operates five radio stations.
The newspaper was started along with Lianhe Zaobao (Joint Morning News) in March 1983 as part of the Singaporean editions of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh merger. It had 40,000 subscribers at launch, which grew to 100,000 in November that year. [4] On 1 January 2005, Lianhe Wanbao underwent a restructuring and reformatting.
Zaobao.com was the first Chinese-language newspaper website to be available in 1995. [70] In 2009, access to Lianhe Zaobao was reportedly blocked by China's Great Firewall for a period, presumably due to Lianhe Zaobao's reporting on China's internet censorship. [71]
Today is a Singaporean digital news magazine published by Mediacorp.It was originally established on 10 November 2000 as a free print newspaper, competing primarily with Singapore Press Holdings' (SPH) Streats.
The Tianfu Morning Post [3] (Chinese: 天府早报), [4] or Tianfu Zaobao, [5] also known as Tianfu Morning News, [6] was a Chengdu-based Chinese-language metropolitan newspaper published in China. Tianfu Morning Post was founded on June 1, 1999. [7] On January 1, 2020, it ceased publication. [8]
NewspaperSG is an online newspaper archive launched in 2010 containing newspapers distributed in Singapore, including those published in the 19th century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] History