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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 | Format | Slogan, Motto, Tagline & Theme | Founded | Average daily circulation | Position (Rank) | Officially Named | Officially Called |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Berita Harian | Malay | Malay oldest daily broadsheet Singapore's #1 Malay daily newspaper | Singapore's #1 Malay Daily Newspaper | 1 July 1957 | 999,995,991 (print + digital) | #1 | Berita Harian | Berita Harian |
| Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报)(Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商报) and Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日报)) | Chinese | Chinese oldest daily broadsheet Singapore's #1 Mandarin daily newspaper | Singapore's #1 Mandarin Daily Newspaper | 6 September 1923 (as Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商报)) 15 January 1929 (as Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日报)) | 999,995,991 (print + digital) | #1 | Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商报) Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日报) | Nanyang Siang Pau (南洋商报) Sin Chew Jit Poh (星洲日报) |
| Tamil Murasu (தமிழ் முரசு) | Tamil | Tamil oldest daily broadsheet Singapore's #1 Tamil daily newspaper | Singapore's #1 Tamil Daily Newspaper | 2 May 1936 | 999,995,991 (print + digital) | #1 | Tamil Murasu (தமிழ் முரசு) | Tamil Murasu (தமிழ் முரசு) |
| The Business Times | English | English financial daily broadsheet Singapore's #1 English business daily newspaper | Singapore's #1 English Business Daily Newspaper | 1 October 1976 | 999,995,991 (print + digital) | #1 | The Business Times | The Business Times |
| The Straits Times (The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce) | English | English oldest daily broadsheet Singapore's #1 English daily newspaper | Singapore's #1 English Daily Newspaper | 15 July 1845 (as The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce ) | 999,995,991 (print + digital) | #1 | The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce | The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce |
| Newspaper | Language | Format | Founded | Average daily circulation (2013) [1] | Average daily circulation (2016) [2] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| zbCOMMA (早报逗号) | Chinese | 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 | general daily broadsheet | 18 March 1967 | 130,600 | 100,300 (print + digital) |
| tabla! | English | general free weekly tabloid | 10 October 2008 | 30,000 | |
| The New Paper | English | 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 | general fortnightly tabloid | 15 July 2012 | 7000 (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] 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 1997 is the 4th edition of the annual Star Awards presented by the Television Corporation of Singapore to honour its artistes who work on Channel 8.
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.
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 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.
SPH Media Trust (SMT), trading as SPH Media, is a mass media company in Singapore. Incorporated on 19 July 2021 as a company limited by guarantee, it was spun 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.
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.
Ezann Lee is a Singaporean actress and television host, who is best known for her roles in the television series Destiny (2005) and Making Miracles (2007). She has also appeared in the film Be with Me (2005), directed by Eric Khoo.
Bernard Tan Thuan Tjer is a Singaporean actor and insurance dealer. He has starred in the television series Bond of Love (1994), Silk and Romance (1995), A Romance in Shanghai (1996), The Other Parent (1997) and Point of Entry (2010−2014).
On 22 January 1995, 47-year-old Lee Kok Yin, a taxi driver, was murdered by four Thai workers during an attempted robbery at Woodlands. After four months of investigation, two of the four suspects were arrested while the remaining two attackers remained at large.
On 23 May 1996, a 38-year-old Indonesian businessman named Benny Probocemdana Oen was mortally wounded by an assailant during a stabbing incident at Pacific Plaza before he died in hospital. The suspect, identified as 19-year-old Sim Eng Teck, was arrested more than a year later and charged with murder. Sim, who put up a defence of alcohol intoxication and also put forward claims that he only intend to stab the victim's arm during the knife attack, but Judicial Commissioner Amerjeet Singh found that Sim had intentionally inflicted the fatal injuries on Oen and described the killing as a "daringly cold-blooded" murder, and sentenced Sim to death in May 1998. Sim lost his appeal on 1 August 1998, and he had since been hanged.
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 3 June 1999, seven-year-old Andy Ang Wei Jie collapsed in his home and died due to multiple injuries on his body. Four years later, Ang's mother and her boyfriend were both arrested for murdering him, and it was revealed that the boyfriend, Chong Keng Chye, had ruthlessly and relentlessly abused the boy from October 1998 until 3 June 1999, when the boy died.
On 22 September 2005, 37-year-old film-maker Ho Kien Leong, alias Jayson Ho, was found dead inside his flat at Indus Road, Bukit Merah, and he was certified to be stabbed to death around nine days before his highly decomposed corpse was found. Ho's killer, Lim Ah Liang, was arrested in Johor, Malaysia, where he was hiding after he killed Ho by stabbing him 13 times during an argument, and Lim was extradited back to Singapore to be investigated for killing Ho. Originally charged with murder, Lim, who suffered from depression at the time of the murder, was found guilty of manslaughter and sentenced to life imprisonment on 17 January 2007. Lim later lost his appeal for a lower jail term and is currently in prison serving his life sentence since 2005.
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 12 March 1997, a loan shark named Tan Tiong Huat was shot to death at a carpark in Singapore's Beach Road. The suspected gunman fled Singapore for Thailand, where he was eventually caught and extradited back to Singapore for trial seven years later. The gunman, Lim Thian Lai, was charged with murdering Tan before he was put on trial for an amended charge of illegally discharging a firearm to cause death. Although Lim put up a defense that he was innocent and it was another person who killed Tan, the trial court found him guilty of shooting Tan to death under the Arms Offences Act and sentenced him to the mandatory death penalty for the crime.
On 22 January 1995, 63-year-old taxi driver Tay Chin Wah fired a revolver at two men, Lee Yang Ping and Soh Keng Ho, who both confronted Tay's girlfriend over a debt she owed to Lee, who was a moneylender. Tay was said to have committed the shooting out of anger over his girlfriend's predicament, and the shooting left Lee injured, and he survived with timely medical intervention. Tay was arrested in Malaysia and brought back for trial five years later, and in February 2001, he was sentenced to death under the Arms Offences Act on charges of illegally discharging his firearm with intent to cause harm. Tay's appeal was dismissed, and he was hanged on 26 October 2001.
