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History. The Standard was originally named the Hong Kong Tiger Standard. The newspaper was founded by Tycoon Aw Boon Haw after the end of the Chinese Civil War. [citation needed] He incorporated the publisher The Tiger Standard Limited on 23 May 1947. [14] On the backs of financially successful Sing Tao Daily and Tiger Balm, he attacked the ...
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.
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 succeeded ...
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 Media ...
Stand News (Chinese: 立場新聞) was a free non-profit online news website based in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2021. Founded in December 2014, it was the successor of House News . It primarily focused on social and political issues in Hong Kong, and generally took a pro-democracy editorial position.
Ronson Chan waves to reporters during his visit to Stand News after the raids. At 6 a.m., on 29 December 2021, the National Security Department of the Hong Kong Police Force arrested six senior staff members of Stand News, including the former editor-in-chief Chung Pui-kuen, former legislator Margaret Ng, singer and activist Denise Ho, Chow Tat-chi and Christine Fang, accusing them of ...
The Standard (Hong Kong), an English free newspaper in Hong Kong. The Standard (Kenya), one of the largest newspapers in Kenya. Montreal 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 ...
Wen Wei Po was founded in Shanghai in January 1938. The Hong Kong edition was first published on 6 September 1948. In the 1980s, Xinhua News Agency, which served as the de facto Chinese embassy to Hong Kong, reduced its control over Wen Wei Po to reflect China's guarantee of "one country, two systems" after sovereignty over Hong Kong is transferred to China in 1997.