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these the South China Morning Post (weekday mornings), the China Mail (weekday afternoons) and the South China Sunday Post-Herald (Sundays) are published by the South China Morning Post, Ltd. One, the daily Hong Kong 'Tiger' Standard (morning), is Chinese-owned, part of the chain founded by the late Mr. Aw Boon Haw.
Daily Commodity Quotations, a trade journal, which appears on weekdays in both Chinese and English, provides up-to-date commercial news in addition to commodity quota- tions.
Most important of vernacular daily newspapers is the Wah Kiu Yat Pao (Overseas Chinese Daily News). It has a large morning circulation, and also publishes an evening edition. Politically independent, the Wah Kiu Yat Pao 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 morning paper with a large circulation.
The Hong Kong Times, an extreme right-wing paper in Chinese, expresses Chinese Nationalist views. 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. The monthly Orient, specializing in Asian political and cultural affairs, suspended publication during the year.
The leading Chinese periodicals are the popular illustrated magazines East Pictorial, Asia Pictorial and Happiness Magazine, 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 Correspond-