Oriental Press Group Limited is the publishing company of Hong Kong newspaper ''

Oriental Daily News ''Oriental Daily News'' is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. It was established in 1969 by Ma Sik-yu and Ma Sik-chun, and was one of the two newspapers published by the Oriental Press Group Limited (). Relative to other Hong Kong ne ...

'', as well as now defunct '' The Sun'' and ''

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''. Oriental Press Group was the founding company of the magazines ''

East Week ''East Week'' (, Jyutping: dung1 zau1 hon1) is a Hong Kong-based weekly Chinese language magazine which was established by Oriental Press Group (the publisher of ''Oriental Daily News'') on 29 October 1992 and sold to the Emperor Group in Septe ...

'', ''

East Touch ''East Touch'' () is a weekly Chinese language magazine written in Cantonese style in Hong Kong. It is published every Tuesday by East Touch Publishing Limited, part of Global China Group Holdings Limited. Content ''East Touch'' is an infota ...

'' and ''Oriental Sunday'', but the magazines were sold in the 2000s. Oriental Press Group, through subsidiary, operates news website ''on.cc''. The shares of Oriental Press Group is traded in the

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History

Oriental Press Group Limited is incorporated on 14 January 1969 and start to publish ''

'' on 22 January of the same year. The company is listed on the

Limited since 18 August 1987.

Products and services

'' is one of the major newspaper of Hong Kong. Its archrival is ''

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'' and other Chinese/Cantonese language newspapers of Hong Kong. On top of its flagship newspaper ''Oriental Daily News'', the company also founded '' The Sun'' () in 1999 and ''

''. The former was published in

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while the latter was an English newspaper. Nevertheless, they were folded. The company also founded a series of magazines that named after (transliterated as East or Oriental): ''

'' (), ' () and ''

'' (). All of them were sold from 2001 to 2002 to

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. Some of them are still published by other companies. The company launches the news website ''on.cc'' (at that time use the url ''orisun.com'') in 2000. It offers the online version of ''Oriental Daily News'' under the sub domain ''orientaldaily.on.cc'', as well as streaming video news occasionally.

Management and ownership

The company is founded by Ma Shek-chun (), which Ma's son, Ma Ching-kwan (), takeover the operation in 1977. Ma Shek-chun was fled to Taiwan in the 1970s as a crime suspect and was wanted by

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for over 30 years. Ma Shek-chun two other sons, Ma Ching-fat () and Ma Ching-choi (), are the current chairman and vice-chairman of the company respectively.

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* {{commons category Companies listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange Newspaper companies of Hong Kong Magazine publishing companies of Hong Kong Holding companies of Hong Kong 1969 establishments in Hong Kong Mass media companies established in 1969

History

Products and services

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