Chinese Commercial News
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Yuyitung Communications, Inc. |
| Founded | 1919 |
| Political alignment | Independent |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | Binondo, Manila, Philippines |
| Website | http://www.shangbao.com.ph |
The Chinese Commercial News (traditional Chinese: 菲律賓商報; simplified Chinese: 菲律宾商报; pinyin: Fēilǜbīn Shāngbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hui-li̍p-pin Siong-pò, lit. "Philippine Commercial News"), colloquially called the Commercial News or Siong Po (Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Siong-pò, Commercial News in Hokkien), is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Chinese language. Although it is not the Philippines' first Chinese-language newspaper, it is the Philippines' oldest existing Chinese-language newspaper, and the country's third-oldest existing newspaper overall.
The Chinese Commercial News was founded in October 1919 as the Huachiao Commercial News (traditional Chinese: 華僑商報; simplified Chinese: 华侨商报; pinyin: Huáqiáo Shāngbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Hôa-kiâu Siong-pò), a monthly newsletter for the Manila Chinese Chamber of Commerce, then headed by Dee Cheng Chuan, with Yu Yi Tung (于以同) as the newspaper's first editor. The newspaper was founded because in the aftermath of World War I, the Philippines, then a colony of the United States, experienced rapid economic growth, which precipitated the need for a newspaper which would monitor the country's latest business developments for the large Chinese Filipino merchant class.
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