''Oriental Daily News'' () is one of

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's daily

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s, published in broadsheet format. It was officially launched on

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2003. The newspaper group is owned by KTS Group, a

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timber company founded by late

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. The newspaper actually published its first issue on 29 September 2002, but its publication's permit was suspended by the Malaysian Home Ministry. The suspension was subsequently lifted in December 2002. It was reported a large numbers of journalists from the Nanyang Press and

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left to join this newspaper group. In 2014, ''Oriental Daily News'' was endorsed by the Malaysian branch of FIABCI ( de) as the official Chinese newspaper for the Malaysia Property Awards.

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* 2002 establishments in Malaysia Publications established in 2002 Newspapers published in Malaysia Chinese-language mass media in Malaysia {{Malaysia-newspaper-stub