were moved first to Des Voeux Road and in 1913 to the present site in Wyndham Street where a new Morning Post Building was completed in 1926.
The Colony's other morning newspaper in English is the Hong Kong (Tiger) Standard founded in 1949 by Mr. Aw Boon Haw, o.b.e., who owns a group of English and Chinese newspapers throughout South-East Asia and publishes one of the Colony's leading Chinese newspapers, Sing Tao Jih Pao.
The principal newspapers of the Chinese press follow distinct political lines. The Wah Kiu Yat Po has a large morning circulation and also publishes an evening edition; its aim is to report news independently and it is a generally reliable newspaper.
Other popular newspapers are the Kung Sheung Daily News and the Hong Kong Times, both of which reflect right wing opinion, the Sing Pao, the circulation of which rivals the Wah Kiu although it is largely a gossip paper, and the two left wing papers Wen Wei Pao and Ta Kung Pao following the orthodox communist line.
There are altogether some 50 Chinese-language newspapers and periodicals published in the Colony but many of the smaller ones have only ephemeral lives, dying out and being replaced by others not unlike them, and thus popularly referred to as the mosquito press.
The most notable English-language periodicals published in the Colony are the Far Eastern Economic Review, established in 1946, and a new monthly magazine Orient, first published in August 1950, specializing in Asian political and cultural affairs. A useful publication for the business man is the trade journal Daily Commodity Quotations published every weekday. This is a bilingual paper in English and Chinese, giving up-to-date trade news. It started publication in 1948.
The newspapers of the Colony are well served by the main foreign news agencies. Reuter, Agence-France Presse, Associated Press and United Press all maintain bureaux in Hong Kong and in addition to providing their services to the local press maintain correspondents who regularly send Hong Kong and China news from the Colony to their head offices in Europe and America. (The Reuter correspondent also acts for Australian Associated Press).
In addition, several news agencies and a large number of British and other foreign newspapers are represented in the Colony by stringers-i.e. journalists who are usually staff members of local newspapers and who telegraph abroad any news of importance.
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