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HONG KONG ANNUAL REPORT, 1954

resident in the Colony numbers about twenty. Most are British, American and Japanese writers. In addition to the agencies mentioned above, the New York Times, the Time & Life magazine organization, the Daily Express, London, and several other foreign publishing houses maintain permanent representatives based in Hong Kong. During the year about 150 foreign correspondents visited the Colony.

Four English-language newspapers are published. One, the daily Hong Kong "Tiger" Standard, is Chinese-owned and is part of the chain founded by the late Mr. Aw Boon Haw who died during the year. The remainder of Hong Kong's English press-the South China Morning Post (week-day mornings), the China Mail (week-day afternoons) and the South China Sunday Post-Herald (Sundays) are published by the South China Morning Post, Ltd.

The trade journal, Daily Commodity Quotations, appears on weekdays in both Chinese and English and provides up-to-date commercial news in addition to commodity quotations.

The Wah Kiu Yat Pao ("Overseas Chinese Daily News") is one of the best Chinese newspapers in the Colony. It has a large morning circulation and also publishes an evening edition and aims at reporting news independently and is a generally reliable news- paper. Right-wing papers giving reliable news include the Sing Tao Jih Pao, run by the proprietors of the Hong Kong Standard, and the Kung Sheung Yat Pao ("Industrial and Commercial Daily News") both of which publish evening editions. The Sing Pao which is a vernacular daily paper with the largest circulation in the Colony, completed a six-storey building and

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