The ''United Daily News'' () is a daily

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in the

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written in the

Chinese language Chinese (, especially when referring to written Chinese) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and many minority ethnic groups in Greater China. About 1.3 billion people (or approximately 16% of the wor ...

. As of 2008, the newspaper had a circulation of 32,000, making it the Philippines' second-largest Chinese-language newspaper in terms of circulation, after the ''

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''. The newspaper, the only Chinese-language newspaper that was authorized to publish during the martial law era, was founded in 1973 by Cheng Kim Tiao, merging two pre-existing Chinese-language newspapers: the '' Kong Li Po'' (公理報), founded in 1911, and the '' Great China Press'' (大中華日報), established after

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. Both newspapers were known to be sympathetic to the

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, with the ''Kong Li Po'' even being founded by Wu Ching-ming,

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's organizer in the Philippines. Its founding editor-in-chief, Sy Yinchow (), was the world's longest-serving editor-in-chief, having served in that position at a number of publications since 1945. Known as the "dean of Chinese media practitioners", Sy wrote daily for the newspaper until his death in 2014. In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, the ''United Daily News'' also contained an English-language section, which later became its own newspaper called the '' United News''.

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External links

''United Daily News'' website''United News'', the English-language edition of the ''United Daily News''
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