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| Type | Free daily newspaper |
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| Format | Tabloid |
| Owner(s) | Next Digital |
| Founded | October 24, 2006 |
| Headquarters | 141 Sing-Ai Road Neihu Industrial Park, Taipei City 114 Taiwan |
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| Traditional Chinese | 爽報 | ||||||||||||||
| Simplified Chinese | 爽报 | ||||||||||||||
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Launched on 24 October 2006 as a rival to Cola News (可樂新聞Pinyin:Kělèxinwen),another free tabloid,published by United Daily News,Sharp Daily shares news content with the Taiwanese Apple Daily . According to Forbes each copy costs 2.8 New Taiwan dollars to produce and its target readership is "the train-riding working class" [1]
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