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Sin Chew Daily (Chinese: 星洲日報), formerly known as Sin Chew Jit Poh, is a leading Chinese-language newspaper in Malaysia.According to report from the Audit Bureau of Circulation for the period ending 31 December 2011, Sin Chew Daily has an average daily circulation of almost 500,000 copies and also the largest-selling Chinese-language newspaper outside Greater China.
It was formed by the merger of Ming Pao Enterprise (Hong Kong), Sin Chew Media Corporation (Malaysia) and Nanyang Press Holdings (Malaysia) in April 2008 and its history can be traced back to the Malaysian operation units of Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated which was founded by Aw Boon Haw in 1941.
Sin Chew Jit Poh, a Malaysian newspaper that still publishing as Sin Chew Daily; Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore), a defunct Singapore newspaper; was the parent company of Malaysian edition; Sing Tao Holdings, publisher of Sing Tao Daily until 2001, a successor of "Sin Poh Amalgamated (Hong Kong)" Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated
The Malaysia editions were sold to a Malaysian businessman in 1982. In 1975, due to the a new legislation of Singapore, the assets and the rights to publish Singapore edition of Sin Chew Jit Poh, was sold to Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited, [2] but the descendant of the founder, the Aw family, retained some of the management shares. [2]
Singapore's Sin Chew Jit Poh ceased publication in Singapore in March 1983 [3] and subsequently merged with Singapore's branch of Nanyang Siang Pau to become Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao; their parent companies, were merged in 1982 [4] [5] as Singapore News and Publications Limited, a predecessor of Singapore monopoly Singapore Press Holdings.
Nanyang Sin-Chew Lianhe Zaobao, [a] commonly abbreviated as Lianhe Zaobao, [b] is the largest Singaporean Chinese-language newspaper with a daily circulation of about 136,900 (print and digital) as of 2021. [2]
It was the first daily in Sabah (was known as North Borneo then). The late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu took over the paper in 1949, and served as its publisher cum chief editor. He was a graduate in Journalism from Fu Tan University, China. Yeh died in 1987 and his wife succeeded him as the Chairman. His son, Clement Yeh Chang became the publisher.
Dato [1] [2] Aw Kow (Chinese: 胡蛟) D.K.L.P., B.B.M., adopted son of Aw Boon Haw; he was the managing director of Sin Chew Jit Poh and the owner of Eastern Sun; [3] [4] he was invited to the Fujian Provincial Assembly in 1947; [5] he married Tan (Chinese: 陳家裕, also known as Datin Aw Kow), daughter of a pastor from the Methodist church; she chaired Eastern Sun.