Kwong Wah Yit Poh
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| Type | Daily newspaper |
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| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Kwong Wah Yit Poh Press Berhad |
| Founder(s) | Dr. Sun Yat-sen |
| Founded | 20 December 1910 (106 years) |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | 19, Presgrave Street, 10300 Penang, Malaysia |
| Circulation | 100,000 |
| Website | www |
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| Traditional Chinese | 光華日報 | ||||||
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| Simplified Chinese | 光华日报 | ||||||
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| Hanyu Pinyin | Guānghuá Rìbào |
Kwong Wah Yit Poh or Kwong Wah Daily (simplified Chinese: 光华日报; traditional Chinese: 光華日報; pinyin: Guānghuá Rìbào) is a Malaysian Chinese daily that was founded on 20 December 1910 by Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
The idea of publishing the Kwang Hwa Pao or 'Glorious Chinese Newspaper' was originally conceived when Dr Sun, Hu Hanmin, Huang Xing and Wang Jingwei visited Penang in 1907. The plan was aborted when financial backing wavered due to the collapse of tin prices. The Yangon branch of the Tongmenghui took up the idea and started the Yan Kon Kwang Hwa Pao. After a short run, the Rangoon paper was banned by the British colonial government due to its radical stance. Subsequently, the Rangoon Tongmenghui leader Zhuang Yin'an came to Penang and a committee was formed to revive the Kwang Hwa Pao as a daily paper.
Renamed Kwong Wah Yit Poh, the newspaper was first printed at and published from at 120 Armenian Street, then the address of the Penang Philomatic Union. The first premises of the Kwong Wah Yit Poh is now the Sun Yat Sen Museum Penang. The house where the Kwong Wah Yit Poh was founded has been preserved as the Sun Yat-sen Museum Penang.
Kwong Wah Yit Poh is the oldest Chinese language newspaper in Malaysia and outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well the world's oldest surviving Chinese newspaper (though Ta Kung Pao is the oldest active Chinese language newspaper in the world). However, it is not the first Chinese language newspaper in Malaysia.
The newspaper had ceased publication in 1927 for almost a decade, and then in 1941, due to the World War II and the publication did not resume until 1946.
In 1936, Kwong Wah Yit Poh acquired Penang Sin Poe (established 1895), Penang's first Chinese newspaper which also had originally traced back the history of Kwong Wah Yit Poh. Despite the ownership change, Penang Sin Poe continues to be published until 30 September 1941.
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