''Sin Chew Jit Poh'' was a Singapore newspaper. It was founded by

Aw Boon Haw Aw Boon-Haw (; 1882 in Rangoon, British Raj – 1954 in Hawaii), OBE, was a Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known as founder of Tiger Balm. He was a son of Hakka herbalist Aw Chu-Kin, with his ancestral home in Yongding County ...

in Singapore. In the 1960s, it started its Malaysian bureau in

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, with full function printing house. Malaysian edition started to become a separate sister newspaper since they have the full function from news report writing to printing. Due to the

Newspaper and Printing Presses Act The Newspaper and Printing Presses Act 1974 is a statute of the Parliament of Singapore that enables authorities to license the publication and distribution of newspaper and other printed media such as magazines and journals in Singapore. The law ...

enacted in 1974, starting from 1975, the two newspaper in Singapore and Malaysia had a separate ownership, which the Singapore edition was owned by Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited; the Malaysian edition was sold by Sin Poh Amalgamated in 1982. Singapore's ''Sin Chew Jit Poh'' ceased publication in Singapore in March 1983 and subsequently merged with Singapore's ''

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'' to become ''

Lianhe Zaobao ''Nanyang Sin-Chew Lianhe Zaobao'' (; literally "Nanyang Sin-Chew Joint Morning Paper"), commonly abbreviated as ''Lianhe Zaobao'' (; literally "Joint Morning Paper"), is the largest Singaporean Chinese-language newspaper with a daily circu ...

'' and ''

Lianhe Wanbao Lianhe Wanbao (; literally Joint Evening News) was a Singapore Chinese afternoon newspaper published daily by SPH Media Trust from 16 March 1983 after the merger between ''Nanyang Siang Pau'' and '' Sin Chew Jit Poh''. ''Lianhe Wanbao'' fo ...

''; their parent companies, were merged in 1982 as Singapore News and Publications Limited, a predecessor of Singapore monopoly

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. The Malaysian version of ''Sin Chew Jit Poh'' (now ''

Sin Chew Daily ''Sin Chew Daily'' (), 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 averag ...

''), is still in circulation.

Gallery

File:Sin Chew Weekly Oct 11,1951 Singapore.jpg, ''Sin Chew Weekly'', a sister publication in 1951

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Chinese-language newspapers (Simplified Chinese) Chinese-language newspapers (Traditional Chinese) Defunct newspapers published in Singapore Singapore Press Holdings Aw family 1929 establishments in Singapore 1983 disestablishments in Singapore Publications established in 1929 Publications disestablished in 1983 zh:星洲日報 {{Singapore-newspaper-stub