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Chapter 12

THE PRESS, BROADCASTING, FILMS AND

GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SERVICES

The Press

There are approximately eighty-eight newspapers and magazines published in Hong Kong and details of the main ones are given in Appendix XIV. In addition, four of the big international news agencies maintain permanent correspondents in Hong Kong; they are the Associated Press of America, Agence-France Presse, United Press and Reuter, the latter in association with the Australian Associated Press.

Offices in Hong Kong are also maintained by the Inde- pendent Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, the New China News Agency, the official agency of the Chinese People's Govern- ment, and the Central News Agency of Nationalist China. The resident foreign correspondents' corps numbers about twenty persons and is made up mostly of British, American and Japanese writers. Permanent representatives of the New York Times, the Time and Life magazine organization, and various other foreign publicity houses are based in the Colony. The Times (London) resident staff correspondent moved earlier in the year to make his headquarters in Singapore.

English language newspapers published in Hong Kong include the South China Morning Post (weekday mornings), the China Mail (weekday afternoons), the South China Sunday Post Herald (Sundays) and the Hong Kong "Tiger" Standard (mornings). The South China Morning Post, and the China Mail, are published by the South China Morning Post Limited. The daily Hong Kong "Tiger" Standard is the only Chinese owned English-language newspaper operating in the Colony.

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