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New Life Evening Post and Hung Look Daily News, and the bilingual Daily Commodity Quotations.
Only two morning newspapers are published in the English- language the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Tiger Standard (the latter is owned by Sing Poh Amalgamated Ltd publishers of Sing Tao Jih Pao and Sing Tao Man Pao). The South China Morning Post, Ltd also publishes the afternoon news- paper China Mail (the oldest daily newspaper in the Colony) and the weekly Sunday Post-Herald.
As with daily newspapers, the leading publications in the magazine field are mainly Chinese. Despite educational develop- ments and a steady increase in the number of Chinese who are completely literate in both English and Chinese, it would seem that the majority of the people of Hong Kong prefer to read in their own language.
However, one new non-partisan weekly journal in the 'English language, the Asia Magazine, with editorial and administrative headquarters in Hong Kong, began publication in October. This illustrated journal reports on cultural, economic and political prog- ress in Asia. It is distributed as a Sunday supplement in fifteen leading Asian newspapers, including the Hong Kong Tiger Standard, to over 700,000 families in thirteen different countries. Of other major magazines in the English language, only the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review and the bi-monthly Hong Kong and Far East Builder both of which are specialist in their appeal and command circulations outside 'the Colony-have survived for any number of years.
Four international news agencies maintain full-scale bureaux in Hong Kong, and it is indicative of the attention which the local press pays to world news that the majority of leading newspapers subscribe to at least three, if not all four, of the services provided. The agencies are the Agence France Presse, Associated Press of America, Reuter (in association with the Australian Associated Press) and United Press International. Hong Kong also houses the head office of the independent Pan-Asia Newspapers Alliance, and sub-offices of the New China News Agency (official agency of the Chinese People's Government), the Central News Agency of the
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