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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.
Sin Chew Daily (星洲日報) – Malaysia (including Johor Bahru and Johor Bahru District)'s largest and number one nationwide Malaysian Mandarin-language oldest daily newspaper for Malaysian Chinese community was officially first established and first published based in Singapore as Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日報) on 15 January 1929.
Tiong's Rimbunan Hijau Group operates Sin Chew Daily and Guang Ming Daily, two of the major Chinese national dailies in Malaysia. [6] They also operate The National Daily in Papua New Guinea and Ming Pao Holdings Ltd in Hong Kong.
Sin Chew Daily (Chinese: 星洲日報): Launched on 15 January 1929, Sin Chew Daily ranks the first in terms of circulation and readership in Peninsular Malaysia. It is also the largest Chinese language newspaper in Southeast Asia in terms of circulation.
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.
Before his death, Kayong was known to have campaigned for the Dayak people's indigenous rights and welfare, including native customary land rights, and during the 2016 state election of Sarawak, Kayong also unsuccessfully contested in the Bekenu seat against Barisan Nasional (BN) direct candidate Rosey Yunus and two independents. [5] [6]
The Sarawak government is popularly believed to exert its influence over the media. [49] [note 5] Examples of newspapers based in Sarawak are Sin Chew Daily, [65] See Hua Daily News, Borneo Post, and Utusan Borneo. [66] In the 1990s, major newspapers negatively portrayed the timber blockades in Sarawak as detrimental to the state's growth and ...
Nanyang had its initial public offering (IPO) in 1989, the first Chinese daily to be listed in Bursa Malaysia. Until the late 1980s, it was Malaysia's highest-selling Chinese newspaper, before being overtaken by Sin Chew Daily, which is also the highest-selling Chinese newspaper outside of Hong Kong, mainland China, and Taiwan.