Overseas Chinese Daily News (OCDN; ) is a

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History

Its first newsprint hit the streets of

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(was known as

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then) on 1 March 1936. It was the first daily in

Sabah Sabah () is a States and federal territories of Malaysia, state of Malaysia located in northern Borneo, in the region of East Malaysia. Sabah borders the Malaysian state of Sarawak to the southwest and the North Kalimantan province of Indone ...

(was known as

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then). The late Tan Sri Yeh Pao Tzu took over the paper in 1949, and served as its publisher cum chief editor. He was a graduate in

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from Fu Tan University,

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. Yeh died in 1987 and his wife succeeded him as the Chairman. His son, Clement Yeh Chang became the publisher.

References

External links

Official website
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