Type | Daily newspaper |
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Format | Broadsheet |
Owner(s) | The Liberty Times Group |
Founder(s) | Lin Rong-San |
Publisher | The Liberty Times Group |
Founded | 15 June 1999 |
Headquarters | Taipei, Taiwan |
ISSN | 1563-9525 |
Website | www |
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Traditional Chinese | 臺北時報 | ||||||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 台北时报 | ||||||||||
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Standard Mandarin | |
Hanyu Pinyin | Táiběi Shíbào |
Southern Min | |
Hokkien POJ | Tâi-pak-sî-pò |
The Taipei Times is the third daily English-language printed newspaper to be established in Taiwan. Competitors include The China Post, Focus Taiwan and Taiwan News. Established on June 15, 1999, the Taipei Times is published by the Liberty Times Group, which publishes the Chinese-language newspaper the Liberty Times which has a pro-Taiwan independence editorial line.
Along with such newspapers as The Guardian, it is a participant of Project Syndicate, established by George Soros.