Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Due to the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act enacted in 1974, starting from 1975, the two newspaper in Singapore and Malaysia had a separate ownership, which the Singapore edition was owned by Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited; [2] the Malaysian edition was sold by Sin Poh Amalgamated in 1982.
1991: Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) takes over distribution of Tamil Murasu. 1993: Hipro Printing, Tamil Murasu's family-owned publisher, is incorporated 1995: SPH and Times Publishing buy Hipro Printing. [4] This makes Tamil Murasu the last daily paper in Singapore that was not owned by SPH. [5] 1999: Youth page Ilyar Murasu is launched.
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.It operates on a subscription model, requiring readers to pay for access to its articles and content.
The paper, characterized as "fiery and pungent", aimed to raise issues related to the Malay race and to alert Malays of ongoing events throughout the world. The paper covered events in Muslim countries outside Singapore and British Malaya, and claimed to be the first Malay-newspaper to subscribe to international news agencies.
Singapore continued to use the common currency upon joining Malaysia in 1963 and after Singapore's independence from Malaysia in 1965, [3] but the formal monetary union between Malaysia, Singapore and Brunei stopped in 1967, and Singapore established the Board of Commissioners of Currency, Singapore (BCCS), on 7 April 1967 [4] and issued its ...
SPH Media Trust (SMT), trading as SPH Media, is a mass media company in Singapore.It was incorporated on July 19, 2021, as a company limited by guarantee, it was a spin off from Singapore Press Holdings as part of a restructuring.
At the time of independence, many Singaporeans living in the Central Area lived in overcrowded shophouses.In 1947, the British Housing Committee Report noted Singapore had "one of the world's worst slums – 'a disgrace to a civilised community'", and the average person per building density was 18.2 by 1947.
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. Napier edited the paper from foundation until 1846 when he returned to Scotland.