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New Life Evening Post and Hung Look Daily News, and the bilingual Daily Commodity Quotations.
Only two morning newspapers are published in the English language the South China Morning Post and the Hong Kong Tiger Standard (the latter is owned by Sing Poh Amalgamated Ltd, publishers of Sing Tao Jih Pao and Sing Tao Man Po). The South China Morning Post Ltd also publishes the afternoon newspaper China Mail (the oldest daily newspaper in the Colony) and the weekly Sunday Post-Herald.
The Hong Kong press has been very stable during recent years; there have been few failures and equally few new ventures, but a new morning daily, the Tin Tin, the first paper in Hong Kong to print news pictures in full colour,- began publication in November.
As with daily newspapers, the leading publications in the magazine field are all Chinese. Despite educational developments and a steady increase in the number of Chinese who are completely literate in both English and Chinese, it would seem that the majority of the people of Hong Kong prefer to read in their own language. There have been several attempts to start new English- language magazines since 1946, but the majority of these failed to secure a circulation wide enough to warrant their continued publication. Of major magazines in the English language, only the weekly Far Eastern Economic Review and the bi-monthly Hong Kong and Far East Builder-both of which are specialist in their appeal and command circulations outside the Colony- have survived for any number of years.
Four international news agencies maintain full-scale bureaux in Hong Kong, and it is indicative of the attention which the local press pays to world news that the majority of leading newspapers subscribe to at least three, if not all four, of the services provided. The agencies are the Agence France Presse, Associated Press of America, Reuter (in association with the Australian Associated Press) and United Press International. Hong Kong also houses offices of the independent Pan-Asia Newspaper Alliance, the New China News Agency (official agency of the Chinese People's Government), the Central News Agency of the Taiwan administra- tion, the Antara News Agency of Indonesia, and the Japanese agencies. Jiji Press and Kyodo News Service. There are also a
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