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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1953

The South China Sunday Post Herald, which is also published by the South China Morning Post Limited, contains much feature material and a picture supplement.

The trade journal, Daily Commodity Quotations, is published on weekdays in English and Chinese. It serves a useful function in providing up-to-date trade news as well as commodity quotations.

Altogether, over sixty Chinese language papers and periodicals are published in the Colony. The leading ones are the morning dailies, the Wah Kiu Yat Po, the Kung Sheung Yat Po, the Sing Tao Jih Pao, all of which have evening editions, the Hong Kong Times, the Chi Yin Daily News, the Sing Pao and the New Life Evening Post. The left-wing press is represented by the Ta Kung Pao, the Wen Wei Pao and the New Evening Post.

Among periodicals, the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review and the monthly magazine Orient have a wide circula- tion outside the Colony. The Far Eastern Economic Review is, as its name implies, a publication devoted to Eastern economic affairs, and the Orient, founded in 1950, specializes in Asian political and cultural affairs. Another monthly is the cultural publication, Outlook. The Sunday Examiner is a weekly, devoted to religious matters. The China Economic Review is a weekly and the International Trade Journal a monthly paper. The Hong Kong and Far East Builder is a bi-monthly, devoted to news concerning engineering and build- ing construction projects in Hong Kong.

The leading Chinese pictorial publications are the weekly East Pictorial, the T'ien Hsia and the Asia Pictorial, the two latter, both monthly illustrated magazines, having a special appeal to overseas Chinese communities in South-East Asia. Another monthly illustrated is the Four Seas Pictorial, published with the support of the United States Information Service.

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