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Tin Tin Daily News
''Tin Tin Daily News'' also known as ''Tin Tin Yat Pao'' was a newspaper in Hong Kong, published between 1960 and 2000. In later years it took a pro-Beijing editorial stand. It was founded by the Wai Kee-shun family, who made their fortune in pharmaceutical industry and was the first Color printing, colour-printed newspaper in Hong Kong. The newspaper was published by Tin Tin Publication Development Limited and was printed by sister company Tin Tin Colour Printing Company Limited. However, the publishing rights was owned by Tin Tin Yat Pao (International) Limited, which was majority owned by bank. The publishing rights was licensed to another company Genvon in 1984 and then Tin Tin Publication Development in 1987. In 1985, the paper's future was in doubt as the owner of the publisher, Alan Lau's business, Millie's Handbags and Shoes, had collapsed a year earlier. The paper was kept alive by a HK$30 million bank loan, personally guaranteed by Xu Jiatun, director of the Hong Kong br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Wai Kee-shun
Wai Kee-shun, SBS (; born 1933) is a Hong Kong businessman, publisher and retired sports commentator. Biography Wai was born into a well-off family which owned a medicine company in 1933. He was educated at the New Method College and left for the United States to further his studies in early 1951. After he returned to Hong Kong in 1956, Wai helped his brother to establish ''Tin Tin Daily News'', in which he was the president from 1960 to 1977. He had been a sports commentator for many years, commentating boxing among other sports for TVB and Cable TV. He had also been chairman of the various sports associations in the 1960s and 1970s, Hong Kong Boxing Association, Hong Kong Table Tennis Association, Tung Wah Sports Association, and vice-president of Hong Kong Football Association. He is the lifetime honorary president of the Hong Kong Muay Thai Association. He has also been member of the Hong Kong Sports Development Board since 2003. He was also the director of the Tung Wah Group ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Xu Jiatun
Xu Jiatun (; 10 March 1916 – 29 June 2016) was a Chinese politician and dissident. He was the Chinese Communist Party Committee Secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 to 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979. After sympathizing with the 1989 Tiananmen Square student protests, he left the country and lived in self-exile in the United States. Career Xu was the member of the 11th and 12th Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party from 1977 to 1987. He was the Chinese Communist Party secretary of Jiangsu Province from 1977 to 1983 and the Governor of Jiangsu from 1977 to 1979. He became the director of the Hong Kong branch of the Xinhua News Agency from 1983 to 1989, then China's ''de facto'' political presence in the territory. He participated in the preparatory works of the establishment of the Hong Kong SAR and was vice-chairman of the Hong Kong Basic Law Drafting Committee. Xu sympathized with the Tiananmen Square student protests in 1989. After the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Hong Kong Commercial Daily
The ''Hong Kong Commercial Daily'' ( zh, t=香港商報) (HKCD) is a Chinese state-owned newspaper, published by the Shenzhen Press Group in broadsheet format in Hong Kong and dubbed “China’s international media window” by the central government.Former editor at Hong Kong’s pro-Beijing Commercial Daily newspaper seeks asylum in US HKFP, 10 Feb 2017 Established in 1952, it was the first financialnewspaper in the Chinese language. It is one of the few newspapers authorized by the Hong Kong SAR government to publicize legal announcements, and also the only Hong Kong newspaper allowed to be circu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
List Of Newspapers In Hong Kong
This is a list of newspapers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest English and Chinese language newspapers. The territory has one of the world's largest press industries and is a major centre for print journalism. Overview Popularity The Chinese language newspapers ''Headline Daily'' and ''Oriental Daily News'' have the highest shares in the Hong Kong newspaper market, while the ''Hong Kong Economic Times'' is the best-selling financial newspaper. ''The Standard (Hong Kong), The Standard'', a free tabloid with a mass market strategy, is the most widely circulated English newspaper by a significant margin. Its rival, ''South China Morning Post'', has the most paid subscribers among English-language papers in Hong Kong. ''Apple Daily'' had one of the highest circulations before its closure in 2021. It had a feisty, tabloid style, concentrating on celebrity gossip and paparazzi photography, with sensationalist news reportage and a noted anti-government politic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Media In Hong Kong
Hong Kong's media consists of several different types of communications of mass media: television, radio, cinema, newspapers, magazines, websites and other online platforms. Overview Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest media entities and remains one of the world's largest film industries. The loose regulation over the establishment of a newspaper makes Hong Kong home to many international media such as the '' Asian Wall Street Journal'' and ''Far Eastern Economic Review'', and publications with anti-Communist backgrounds such as '' The Epoch Times'' (which is funded by Falun Gong). It also once had numerous newspapers funded by Kuomintang of Taiwan but all of them were terminated due to poor financial performance. The Catholic Diocese of Hong Kong publishes '' Kung Kao Po'', a weekly newspaper. Until the increased repression of freedom of expression in Hong Kong following the passing of the national security law in 2020, ''Apple Daily'' being the most read newspap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sally Aw
Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, (born 1932) is a Hong Kong businesswoman and daughter of the Burmese-born entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw. Sally Aw was nicknamed ''Tiger Balm Lady'' as well as ''Chinese Howard Hughes''. Early life Sally Aw was born in Rangoon in 1932 during the British Raj. At age 5, Sally was adopted by fellow relative Aw Boon Haw. Aw Boon-haw's third son, Aw Hoe, was killed in a plane crash in 1951, and after his own death in 1954, Aw Sian, then 22, inherited the newspaper empire of Hong Kong. Aw was known foremost as a media mogul, proprietor of the English language business newspaper '' The Standard'' and the Chinese language news group Sing Tao Holdings, including ''Sing Tao Daily'' and ''Sing Tao Wan Pao'', founded by her father in 1938, as well as ' () she founded in 1963 and ''Tin Tin Daily News'' she owned via Sing Tao Holdings' listed subsidiary (better known as its Hong Kong subsidiary Jademan Holdings) Due to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Sing Tao Holdings
Sing Tao Holdings Limited was a Bermuda-incorporated company, but headquartered in Hong Kong. The company was listed in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. The company was a media and property conglomerate until it was dismantled in 2002. After selling the main media business and subsequent takeover in mid-2002, the legal person of the listed company, along with its property business, was renamed Shanghai Ming Yuan Holdings. Sing Tao Holdings and its predecessor Sing Tao Limited were majority owned by founder Aw Boon Haw, his daughter Sally Aw and other family members for almost 50 years. Facing financial troubles, Sally Aw sold the controlling stake to a private equity fund of Lazard in 1999. It was then acquired by Charles Ho's listed company Global China Technology Group in January 2001. However, in mid-2002 it was re-sold to a Chinese private company Ming Yuan Investment Group, but excluding Sing Tao's main business: newspaper (as Sing Tao Media Holdings) as well as a ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Ho Sai-chu
Ho Sai-chu, GBM, JP (; born 6 June 1937) was a Hong Kong entrepreneur and the member of the Legislative Council from 1985 to 1991 for Commercial (Second) constituency, Provisional Legislative Council from 1996 to 1998 and Legislative Council after the transfer of the Hong Kong sovereignty in 1998 to 2000 for the Election Committee constituency. He is also the member of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference National Committee and life honorary chairman of the Chinese General Chamber of Commerce. Early life Ho was born in Hong Kong on 6 June 1937 to an entrepreneur Ho Iu-kwong. He was educated at the Wah Yan College, Hong Kong and the Hong Kong Technical College, predecessor of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He became a contractor and was the director of many construction and real estates companies, including director and manager of the Fook Lee Construction Company, director of the Fook Lee Estates and the Fook Lee Holdings. He was also the director of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Culturecom Holdings
Culturecom Holdings Limited, formerly Jademan (Holdings) Limited, is a Hong Kong company, headquartered in the in Admiralty. History Tony Wong Yuk-long (a.k.a. Tony Wong Chun-loong - Document ID is "scmp000020011127dm1f005ki") created the company Jademan Holdings in 1971. In 1979 it became a formal corporation. The company was first listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 1986. At one time 80% of the comics market in Hong Kong came from this company. It acquired 70% of ''Tin Tin Daily News'' in April 1987, and acquired money from that company. According to Monica Ko of the ''South China Morning Post'', because of Wong's profile in Jademan, the company's stock became known as "personality stock". Comics artist Ma Wing-shing worked for Jademan. - Document ID is "scmp000020011128dm85008t3" Beginning in the 1980s, Jademan began distributing comics in North America. The initial comic had a printing of 50,000. At first the circulation of its comics was 20,000 total, made up of fo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Newspaper In Hong Kong
This is a list of newspapers in Hong Kong. Hong Kong is home to many of Asia's biggest English and Chinese language newspapers. The territory has one of the world's largest press industries and is a major centre for print journalism. Overview Popularity The Chinese language newspapers ''Headline Daily'' and ''Oriental Daily News'' have the highest shares in the Hong Kong newspaper market, while the ''Hong Kong Economic Times'' is the best-selling financial newspaper. ''The Standard'', a free tabloid with a mass market strategy, is the most widely circulated English newspaper by a significant margin. Its rival, ''South China Morning Post'', has the most paid subscribers among English-language papers in Hong Kong. ''Apple Daily'' had one of the highest circulations before its closure in 2021. It had a feisty, tabloid style, concentrating on celebrity gossip and paparazzi photography, with sensationalist news reportage and a noted anti-government political position. The Chinese l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Communist Party Of China
The Communist Party of China (CPC), also translated into English as Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and One-party state, sole ruling party of the People's Republic of China (PRC). Founded in 1921, the CCP emerged victorious in the Chinese Civil War against the Kuomintang and Proclamation of the People's Republic of China, proclaimed the establishment of the PRC under the leadership of Mao Zedong in October 1949. Since then, the CCP has governed China and has had sole control over the People's Liberation Army (PLA). , the CCP has more than 99 million members, making it the List of largest political parties, second largest political party by membership in the world. In 1921, Chen Duxiu and Li Dazhao led the founding of the CCP with the help of the Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) and Far Eastern Bureau of the Communist International. Although the CCP aligned with the Kuomintang (KMT) during its initia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
Color Printing
Color printing or colour printing is the reproduction of an image or text in color (as opposed to simpler black and white or monochrome printing). History of color printing Woodblock printing on textiles preceded printing on paper in both East Asia and Europe, and the use of different blocks to produce patterns in color was common. The earliest way of adding color to items printed on paper was by hand-coloring, and this was widely used for printed images in both Europe and East Asia. Chinese woodcuts have this from at least the 13th century, and European ones from very shortly after their introduction in the 15th century, where it continued to be practiced, sometimes at a very skilled level, until the 19th century—elements of the official British Ordnance Survey maps were hand-colored by boys until 1875. Early European printed books often left spaces for initials, rubrics and other elements to be added by hand, just as they had been in manuscripts, and a few early printe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] [Amazon] |
