''The New Evening Post'' ( Chinese: 新晚報) was a

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. It was the evening edition of ''

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''. It started printing on October 15, 1950 and stopped printing on July 27, 1997. The famous novelist Jin Yong was an editor there in 1952. Jin Yong later founded ''

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''.

Namesake

In August 2012, a namesake free

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was launched by a company that was chaired by Ha Ping (). In 2014 it was ceased publication.

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