Sin Chew Daily
| Type | Daily newspaper |
|---|---|
| Format | Broadsheet |
| Owner(s) | Sin Chew Media Corporation Berhad |
| Editor | Pook Ah Lek |
| Founded | 15 January 1929 (32201 issues) |
| Language | Chinese |
| Headquarters | 19 Jalan Semangat, 46200 Petaling Jaya, Selangor, Malaysia. |
| Circulation | 340,584 (West Malaysia) 52,711 (Sarawak) 12,102 (Night Edition) 55,291 (E-paper) *Source: Audit Bureau of Circulations, Malaysia - July to December 2015 |
| Website | www |
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. It is only on Sundays that the circulation of the Malay language (national language of Malaysia) papers exceeds that of Sin Chew Daily. [4]
Sin Chew Daily is a member of the Asia News Network.
Sin Chew Daily is circulated throughout Malaysia and neighbouring countries, in Southern Thailand, Brunei and Indonesia. It is also published and printed in Indonesia [5] and Cambodia [6] under different mastheads.
Presently, Sin Chew Daily has 53 news bureaus and six printing plants in Peninsular and East Malaysia.
Sin Chew Daily is owned by Sin Chew Media Corporation Berhad, a subsidiary of Media Chinese International Limited.
Sin Chew Daily is founded on 15 January 1929, by Aw Boon Par (胡文豹) and Aw Boon Haw (胡文虎), founder of the Tiger Balm (虎標萬金油) in Singapore as part of the Star Almagated Newspaper formed by these two philanthropists. [7] The newspaper was suspended between 1942 and 1945.
Even after the secession of Singapore from Malaysia in 1965, Sin Chew Daily still operated with its headquarters in Singapore under the management of successors of the Aw Brothers.
In the early 1970s, to expedite the printing process, Sin Chew Daily decided to build a new plant located at its present head office premises in Petaling Jaya. With the setting up of this new plant, other departments such as the news desk, editorial, production and circulation were started. The Petaling Jaya operation became independent from the head office in Singapore.
Following the directives from the government on restraining foreigners from controlling the press, the Aw family transferred their ownership of Sin Chew Daily to Lim Kheng Kim in 1982.
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