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The following is a list of newspapers in Singapore.
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The following is a list of newspapers in Singapore.
| Newspaper | Language | Publisher | Format | Founded | Average daily circulation (2013) [1] | Average daily circulation (2016) [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zbCOMMA (早报逗号) | Chinese | SPH Media | weekly tabloid | 1 January 1994 | 54,400 | 40,400 |
| Good Paper | English | "Social Causes" online, [3] free quarterly print and e-copy tabloid | 21 January 2011 | 15,000 (print) | ||
| Shin Min Daily News (新明日报) | Chinese | SPH Media | general daily broadsheet | 18 March 1967 | 130,600 | 100,300 (print + digital) |
| tabla! | English | SPH Media | general free weekly tabloid | 10 October 2008 | 30,000 | |
| The New Paper | English | SPH Media | free general daily tabloid | 26 July 1988 | 85,600 | 113,300 |
| Thumbs Up (大拇指) | Chinese | general weekly tabloid | 15 January 2000 | 27,500 | 21,200 | |
| WEEKENDER [4] | English | lifestyle free home delivered weekly broadsheet | 1 October 2012 | 230,000 weekly | ||
| TGIF Papers | English | general free weekly tabloid | 1 January 2013 | 50,000 (200,000 monthly) | ||
| Pravasi Express [5] | English and Malayalam | Pravasi Publications | general fortnightly tabloid | 15 July 2012 | 7,000 (200,000 online) | |
| The Life News [6] | English | National Fortnightly (digital) and a facsimile of Parent edition The Life News, Australia National Edition and The Life News Ltd UK. tabloid | (20,000 online) |
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 Sun and The Singapore Herald. [9] Editorial executives of Nanyang Siang Pau, which was accused of propagating "Chinese ethnic chauvinism", had been ordered detained without trial for a period of two years, and publication of The Chinese Daily was briefly halted. [10] [11]
Nanyang Sin-Chew Lianhe Zaobao, commonly abbreviated as Lianhe Zaobao, is the largest Singaporean Chinese-language newspaper with a daily circulation of about 136,900 as of 2021. Published by SPH Media, it was formed on 16 March 1983 as a result of a merger between the Singaporean editions of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh, two of Singapore's oldest Chinese newspapers.
Nanyang Siang Pau or Nanyang Business Daily is a Malaysian Chinese daily newspaper. Originally founded in Singapore on 6 September 1923 by philanthropist-entrepreneur Tan Kah Kee, its original newspaper circulated across the Straits Settlements. It is the oldest Chinese-language newspaper in Malaysia behind Kwong Wah Yit Poh.
Sin Chew Jit Poh was a Singapore newspaper. It was founded by Aw Boon Haw in Singapore. In the 1960s, it started its Malaysian bureau in Petaling Jaya, with full function printing house. Malaysian edition started to become a separate sister newspaper since they have the full function from news report writing to printing. 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; the Malaysian edition was sold by Sin Poh Amalgamated in 1982.
Star Awards 1999 is the sixth edition of the annual Star Awards presented by the Television Corporation of Singapore to honour its artistes who work on Channel 8.
Star Awards 1995 is the second edition of the annual Star Awards presented by the Television Corporation of Singapore to honour its artistes who work on Channel 8. A total of 21 awards were given out at the ceremony, with addition of 5 new categories where winners were selected by a panel of judges.
Nanyang Siang Pau was a newspaper in Singapore that was founded by philanthropist-entrepreneur Tan Kah Kee on 6 September 1923. It had a circulation across the Straits Settlement.
Shawn Tng, 唐志瑋, is a singer and composer from Singapore.
Shin Min Daily News is a Singapore Chinese-language afternoon newspaper published by SPH Media. The Newspaper was founded on 18 March 1967, by Singapore businessman Liang Runzhi (梁潤之) and Hong Kong writer Louis Cha as an offshoot of Hong Kong's Ming Pao. The Newspaper featured exclusive serializations of some of Cha's wuxia novels in its early days. In the early 1980s, Cha sold His shares in the paper after the Singapore government ruled that foreigners could only hold up to 3% of shares in locally based papers.
Lianhe Wanbao was a Singapore Chinese-language afternoon newspaper published daily by SPH Media from 16 March 1983 after the merger between the Singaporean editions of Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh.
Aw family is the family member of Aw Chu Kin and his descendant. Aw Chu Kin started his business in Burma, which his two sons expanded it into a multi-national conglomerate that from Chinese medicines to newspaper, as well as bank, insurance and real estate. However, the family started to decline in the third generation, by the takeover of family-owned listed company Haw Par Brothers International in Singapore in 1971, which saw Sin Poh Amalgamated, Chung Khiaw Bank and Haw Par Brothers (Thailand) were spin-off from the listed company. Before the dismantle, the key position of the business empire was served by third-generation member and their spouse, which they were removed after the takeover. However, Sally Aw, granddaughter of Aw Chu Kin, remained as one of the influential media tycoon in Hong Kong in 1990s, until forced to sell her Sing Tao Holdings in 1999 due to financial difficulties.
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. It owns several major newspapers in the country, including the English-language The Straits Times and The Business Times, Chinese-language Lianhe Zaobao and Shin Min Daily News, Malay-language Berita Harian, and the Tamil Murasu. The company also publishes magazines and operates five radio stations.
NewspaperSG is an online newspaper archive launched in 2010 containing newspapers distributed in Singapore, including those published in the 19th century.
On 25 March 1999, an 18-year-old woman Malaysian named Koh Mew Chin was found murdered in her rented flat at Singapore's Pasir Ris, where she lived with her boyfriend and several other Malaysians working in Singapore. A day after the killing, Koh's 19-year-old boyfriend Chan Choon Wai, also Malaysian, was arrested and charged with murder.
Ryan Choo is a Singaporean agriculture, businessman and former actor. He is best known for his role as Yan Dao in the comedy sitcom Right Frequency.
Liang Baozhu was a Singaporean actor, theatre and radio personnel who was best known for his leading role in the 1997 telemovie Grandpa's Bak Kut Teh (阿公肉骨茶), produced and written by theatre maestro Kuo Pao Kun.
On 25 March 1988, at Bukit Timah, 49-year-old lorry driver Yeu Lam Ching was robbed and murdered by two men. The two men, Abdul Aziz Abdul Rahman and Mazlan Maidun, were swiftly arrested and charged with murder. Mazlan, who directly stabbed the victim to death with a knife, was found guilty of murder and sentenced to death, while Abdul Aziz, who only robbed the victim and never took part in the stabbing, was found guilty of armed robbery and thus jailed for ten years and given 12 strokes of the cane. Mazlan was hanged on 21 January 1994 after losing his appeal.
On 27 July 1984, 74-year-old Packiria Pillai Krishnasamy was murdered inside his flat at Tah Ching Road, Jurong. The police managed to arrest two suspects, Ramachandran Suppiah and Krishnan Varadan, who were both allegedly responsible for causing Packiria's death during a robbery bid. In May 1987, Ramachandran and Krishnan were both sentenced to hang for murdering Packiria. Although the duo lost their first appeal against the trial verdict, Ramachandran was acquitted after his second appeal, due to insufficient evidence proving that Ramachandran had participated in the crime, and Krishnan however, remained on death row after failing to challenge his conviction a second time. Krishnan was hanged on 15 April 1994 after spending seven years on death row, and he was reportedly the longest-serving death row prisoner in Singapore at the time of his execution.
On the midnight of 4 February 2002, at their rented flat in Singapore’s Rangoon Road, 34-year-old Jin Yugang, a cleaner from China, had a drinking session with his 32-year-old roommate Wang Hong and other friends, but an argument broke out between the both of them, and it resulted in Jin using a knife to stab Wang multiple times, resulting in Wang's death.
On 27 February 1991, inside his home at Geylang, 32-year-old businessman Ng Keng Hua was stabbed twice by two attackers during a robbery bid, and he died as a result of the stabbing while warded at a hospital. One of the murderers, Tan Bee Hock, was found guilty of murdering Ng and sentenced to death in 1993. The other man, Toh Laie, however, remains on the run since then, and he was never found.
On 23 September 1980, inside a terrace house in Opera Estate, Singapore, 23-year-old babysitter Chia Chun Fong was found dead with a knife stuck to her mouth. The cause of death, which was previously unknown in Singapore's medical history, was due to the knife cutting through a vertebral artery while being pushed into the mouth, and it consequently led to Chia dying from excessive blood loss. Chia, who was entrusted to care for the infant son of her neighbour, was later found to have been murdered by her husband's distant relative Tan Cheow Bock, who fled from Singapore after the killing. Tan remained on the run for seven years before he was caught for vehicle theft in Malaysia, and extradited back to Singapore for trial. Close to ten years after the murder of Chia, Tan was found guilty of murdering Chia and sentenced to death by the High Court on 31 August 1990.
