''Lat Pau'' () was one of the earliest

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 ...

newspapers published in Singapore under the

Straits Settlements The Straits Settlements were a group of British territories located in Southeast Asia. Headquartered in Singapore for more than a century, it was originally established in 1826 as part of the territories controlled by the British East India Comp ...

. It was first published in December 1881 by

See Ewe Lay See Ewe Lay (c. 1851 - 29 August 1906), alternatively spelled Seet Ewe Lay, was a descendant of the wealthy Peranakan See clan and the founder of ''Lat Pau'', the first major Chinese newspaper in Singapore. Biography See was born in Malacca in abou ...

() under Lat Pau Press Ltd (). It was published for 52 years, ending in March 1932. It was Singapore's longest-running local-run Chinese newspaper before World War II. ''Lat Pau'' initially was published in Classical Chinese. In 1925 the newspaper started publishing in Vernacular Chinese. The newspaper's first editor was

Yeh Chi Yun Yeh Chih Yun (21 July 1859 - 9 September 1921), also known as Ye Mao Bin, Ye Ji Yin, Yong Wen, Ting Song Lu Shi Sun and Xing Er Sheng, was a Chinese newspaperman and poet. He was the Chief Editor of ''Lat Pau'', the first major Chinese newspaper in ...

. File:Lat Pau, 16 January 1925.jpg, The ''Lat Pau'', 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lat Pau Chinese-language newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Singapore Chinese-language mass media in Singapore Newspapers established in 1881 Publications disestablished in 1932 Defunct overseas Chinese newspapers