Chapter 16: Press, Broadcasting and Films
More than 150 newspapers and magazines of various kinds are published in Hong Kong. About a dozen are published in English, but most are in Chinese. A few are bilingual. The main ones are listed in Appendix XIV.
International news agencies are represented by the Associated Press of America, the French News Agency (Agence France-Presse), Reuter (in association with the Australian Associated Press), and the United Press. Each of these four agencies maintains permanent correspondents in Hong Kong and furnishes news services to local news- papers.
Offices are also maintained in Hong Kong by the independent Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, the New China News Agency (official agency of the Chinese Government), the Central News Agency of the Taiwan administration, and the Japanese agencies, Jiji Press and Kyodo News Service.
The corps of foreign correspondents regularly resident in the Colony numbers about twenty. Most are British, American and Japanese writers. The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Daily News, Observer (London), Daily Express (London), Toronto Star, the Time and Life magazine organization, and several other foreign publishing houses maintain permanent representatives based in Hong Kong. Leading broadcasting and television net- works also maintain correspondents and cameramen in the Colony. During the year about 200 foreign correspondents visited Hong Kong.
Four English-language newspapers are published. Three of these the South China Morning Post (weekday mornings), the China Mail (weekday afternoons) and the South China Sunday Post-Herald (Sundays)—are published by the South China Morning Post, Ltd. One, the daily Hong Kong "Tiger" Standard, is Chinese-owned, part of the chain founded by the late Aw Boon Haw.
Daily Commodity Quotations, a trade journal which appears on weekdays in both Chinese and English, provides
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