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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT
up-to-date commercial news in addition to commodity quotations.
The Wah Kiu Yat Pao (Overseas Chinese Daily News), with a large morning circulation, also publishes an evening edition, and aims at reporting news independently; it is a generally reliable newspaper. Right-wing papers giving reliable news include the Sing Tao Jih Pao, run by the proprietors of the Hong Kong Standard, and the Kung Sheung Yat Pao (Industrial and Commercial Daily News), both of which publish evening editions. The Sing Pao is a popular daily paper with a large circulation.
The Hong Kong Times, an extreme right-wing paper in Chinese, expresses Chinese Nationalist views. The Chi Yin Daily News and New Life Evening Post are popular but rather sensational newspapers. The Ta Kung Pao, the New Evening Post, and the Wen Wei Pao follow the orthodox communist line.
Among periodicals written in English, the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review is read widely beyond the confines of the Colony. So, too, is the monthly Orient, specializing in Asian political and cultural affairs.
The leading Chinese periodicals are the popular illustrated magazines, East Pictorial, Tien Hsia, Asia Pictorial, and the Four Seas Pictorial, all with overseas circulations.
The majority of the principal newspapers in the Colony are members of the Newspaper Society of Hong Kong, founded in 1954. The committee of the Foreign Corres- pondents' Club acts for overseas journalists stationed in the Colony.
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICE
News of government activities and explanations of government policy are given by the Public Relations Office, situated in Gloucester Building. The department's Press Section issued more than 4,000 statements and news items in 1955 and organized a number of Press conferences, besides maintaining close personal contact with local newspapers, agencies and foreign correspondents. The Section also prepares the news bulletins broadcast in English and three Chinese dialects by Radio Hong Kong.