Solomon Star

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Solomon Star
TypeDaily newspaper
Owner(s) News Corp
Founded25 May 1982;41 years ago (25 May 1982)
Website www.solomonstarnews.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Solomon Star is a Solomon Islands daily, English language [1] newspaper, launched on 25 May 1982. It is produced by the Solomon Star Company, whose owner, publisher and director was Father John Lamani, who served until his death in 2012. [2] [3] Lamani was also one of the paper's co-founders. [1] The newspaper's editor, as of 2004, is Ofani Eremae. [4] In 2023, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reported that the Solomon Star received almost $US140,000 from the Chinese government in return for pledges to "promote the truth about China's generosity and its true intentions." [5]

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