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Oriental Daily News

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Oriental Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Oriental Press Group
PublisherOriental Press Group
Founded22 January 1969; 55 years ago (22 January 1969)
Political alignmentPro-Beijing
LanguageTraditional Chinese
HeadquartersTai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong
Circulation530,000
Sister newspapersThe Sun (Hong Kong) (Ceased publication)
ISSN1018-8177
Websiteorientaldaily.on.cc Edit this at Wikidata
Oriental Daily News
Traditional Chinese東方日報
Simplified Chinese东方日报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōngfāng Rìbào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDung1fong1 Yat6bou3
JyutpingDung1fong1 Jat6bou3
IPA[tʊŋ˥fɔŋ˥ jɐt̚˨pɔw˧]

Oriental Daily News is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. It was established in 1969 by Ma Sik-yu and Ma Sik-chun, and was one of the two newspapers published by the Oriental Press Group Limited (Chinese: 東方報業集團有限公司). Relative to other Hong Kong newspapers, Oriental Daily News has an older readership.[citation needed]

History

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The paper was founded in 1969.[1] Apple Daily was its main competitor.[1] The newspaper's website was started in February 2002, and includes e-paper versions of Oriental Daily. The whole printed version is uploaded onto the web allowing people from all over the world to read.[2] It is considered Pro-Beijing camp in its editorial stance.[3][4]

Content

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It has two editorials every day. The first one is called the 'Main Editorial' (正論), which is a typical newspaper editorial.[5] The second one is called 'Kung Fu Tea' (功夫茶), which is written in the vernacular form of Cantonese, and is a daily critique of the misfits of the bureaucracy.[6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b "How two fugitive opium dealers started a Hong Kong newspaper war". CNN Business. 5 September 2020. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  2. ^ "東方日報電子報" [Oriental Daily News e Paper]. Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  3. ^ Feng, William Dezheng (December 2017). "Ideological dissonances among Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong: A corpus-based analysis of reports on the Occupy Central Movement". Discourse & Communication. 11 (6): 549–566. doi:10.1177/1750481317726928. hdl:10397/98137. ISSN 1750-4813.
  4. ^ Yu, Jess Macy (6 October 2014). "Hong Kong Newspapers, Pro- and Anti-Beijing, Weigh In on Protests". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  5. ^ "東方日報正論". Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  6. ^ "功夫茶". Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
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