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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 newspaper China Mail (the oldest daily newspaper in the Colony) and the weekly Sunday Post-Herald.
As with daily newspapers, Chinese publications are predominant in the magazine field. Despite educational developments and a steady increase in the number of Chinese who are completely literate in both English and Chinese, it seems that the majority of the people of Hong Kong prefer to read in their own language. A non-partisan weekly journal in English, the Asia Magazine, with editorial and administrative headquarters in Hong Kong, carries illustrated reports on cultural, economic and political pro- gress in Asia. It is distributed free as a Sunday supplement in 10 leading Asian newspapers, including the Hong Kong Tiger Standard, to over 430,000 families in 12 different countries. A fortnightly edition is on sale in India, Pakistan and Ceylon. 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 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 Newspaper Alliance, and sub-offices of the New China News Agency (official agency of the Chinese People's Government), the Central News Agency of the Taiwan administration, the Antara News Agency of Indonesia, and the Japanese agencies, Jiji Press and Kyodo News Service.
PUBLISHING
Hong Kong has a large and flourishing printing industry capable not only of supplying local needs but also, to a considerable extent, those of south-east Asia.