''Kwong Wah Yit Poh'' or ''Kwong Wah Daily'' () is a

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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,

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visited Penang in 1907. The plan was aborted when financial backing wavered due to the collapse of tin prices. The

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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, the current 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 newspapers in Malaysia, outside of Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, as well as one of the world's oldest surviving Chinese newspaper (''

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'' 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 again in 1941 due to

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, and its 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 change in ownership, ''Penang Sin Poe'' continued to be published until 30 September 1941. ''Kwong Wah Yit Poh'' went into a decline in the 1960s after the death of two directors. In the 1971, ''

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'' began publication and had once worked together with ''Kwong Wah Yit Poh''. However, the newspaper continued to make losses, and ''The Star'' became independent from ''Kwong Wah Yit Poh''. ''The Star'' became a national daily newspaper in 1976, but the headquarters relocated to Kuala Lumpur in 1978 and then Petaling Jaya in 1981. Despite being Malaysia's longest running Chinese-language newspaper, the daily is not recognised as a national newspaper, but it has the largest readership in the northern region.

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