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The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012. It was formerly called the Hongkong Standard [4] and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom [ when? ] but partially reverted to The Standard in 2001.
Popularity. The Chinese language newspapers Headline Daily and Oriental Daily News have the highest shares in the Hong Kong newspaper market, while the Hong Kong Economic Times is the best-selling financial newspaper. The Standard, a free tabloid with a mass market strategy, is the most widely circulated English newspaper by a significant margin.
t. e. Hong Kong (1800s–1930s) oversaw the founding of the new crown colony of Hong Kong under the British Empire. [1] After the First Opium War, the territory was ceded by the Qing Empire to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland through Treaty of Nanjing (1842) and Convention of Peking (1860) in perpetuity.
The Standard, an English free newspaper in Hong Kong; The Standard, one of the largest newspapers in Kenya; The Standard, a national weekly newspaper published in Canada from 1905 until 1951; The Standard (Philippines), or The Manila Standard, a daily newspaper in the Philippines; The Port Melbourne Standard, earlier The Standard (Port ...
The Friend of China. The Friend of China, officially The Friend of China and Hongkong Gazette from 1842 to 1859, was an influential English-language newspaper in early British Hong Kong and among European residents of the Qing Empire. Its first issue was published, as The Friend of China, on 17 March 1842.
The South China Morning Post ( SCMP ), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong -based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. [2] [3] Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained Hong Kong's newspaper of record since British colonial rule. [4] [5] : 251 Editor-in-chief Tammy Tam ...
The Sing Tao Daily ( Chinese: 星島日報) (also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao) is among Hong Kong 's oldest Chinese language newspapers. [1] It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying-shing ( Chinese: 郭英成) is chairman. Its English language sister paper is The Standard . Sing Tao's Toronto edition is partly owned by Star ...
The region of Hong Kong has been inhabited since the Old Stone Age, later becoming part of the Chinese Empire with its loose incorporation into the Qin dynasty (221–206 BC). Starting out as a farming fishing village and salt production site, it became an important free port and eventually a major international financial center.