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The paper was founded as Singapore's second English-language newspaper by William Napier, Edward Boustead, Walter Scott Lorrain and George Drumgoole Coleman on 1 October 1835 as the Singapore Free Press & Mercantile Advertiser. [1] Napier edited the paper from foundation until 1846 when he returned to Scotland.
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 ...
The National Library Board and Singapore Press Holdings signed an agreement in 2007 to make digitised articles of The Straits Times available for public access at NLB libraries. NewspaperSG was launched on 28 January 2010.
Today was 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 .
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The Singapore Free Press, which had folded in 1869, was revived by W.G. St. Clair, who edited it until 1916. The rival newspapers spurred readership among the growing English-reading community, with The Singapore Free Press published in the morning and The Straits Times released in the afternoon. [15]
On 8 January 2008, my Paper was relaunched as the first full-fledged bilingual newspaper in Singapore. [ 1 ] On 17 October 2016, Singapore Press Holdings announced a cut 10% of staff, [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] that My Paper and The New Paper (TNP) will merge to form a revamped TNP that will be distributed free from 1 December 2016.
First launched on 26 July 1988, by Singapore Press Holdings (SPH), it had an average daily circulation of 101,600 in August 2010, according to SPH. [2] In 1991, the paper organised the New Paper Big Walk, a mass-participation walking event. The event came to be held annually in Singapore.