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The paper was founded as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 15 July 1845. The Straits Times was launched as an eight-page weekly, published at 7 Commercial Square using a hand-operated press. The subscription fee then was Sp.$1.75 per month.
The Straits Times Index ( abbreviation: STI) is a capitalisation-weighted measurement stock market index that is regarded as the benchmark index for the stock market in Singapore. It tracks the performance of the top 30 companies that are listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX). The STI is jointly calculated by the SGX, the SPH Media Trust and ...
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 ] STOMP contributors, otherwise known as STOMPers, have been widely criticised for submitting xenophobic, racist and sexist content onto the portal.
The mainland of Singapore measures 50 kilometres (31 mi) from east to west and 27 kilometres (17 mi) from north to south with 193 kilometres (120 mi) of coastline. These figures are based on 2.515 metres (8 ft 3.0 in) High Water Mark cadastral survey boundaries. [2] It has an exclusive economic zone of 1,067 km 2 (412 sq mi).
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia.It is located about one degree of latitude (137 kilometres or 85 miles) north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bordering the Strait of Malacca to the west, the Singapore Strait to the south along with the Riau Islands in Indonesia, the South China Sea to ...
OCLC number. 1167649590. Website. nst.com.my. The New Straits Times is an English-language newspaper published in Malaysia. It is Malaysia's oldest newspaper still in print (though not the first), [3] having been founded as The Straits Times on 15 July 1845. It was relaunched as the New Straits Times on 13 August 1974.
The Singapore Strait is a 113 km-long (70 mi), 19 km-wide (12 mi) [2] strait between the Strait of Malacca in the west and the South China Sea in the east. Singapore is on the north of the channel, and the Indonesian Riau Islands are on the south. The two countries share a maritime border along the strait. It includes Keppel Harbour and many ...
Pinang Gazette and Straits Chronicle. Project Eyeball (folded on 1 January 2002, less than two years after its release) Reporter's Advertiser [12] Shipping Gazette [12] Singapore & F.M.S. Weekly Advertiser. Singapore Chronicle and Commercial Register. Singapore Chronicle (1824 - 1837) [12] Singapore Daily News.