Oriental Daily News

This article is about the newspaper in Hong Kong. For the newspaper in Malaysia, see Oriental Daily News (Malaysia).

Oriental Daily News
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Oriental Press Group
PublisherOriental Press Group
Founded22 January 1969; 56 years ago (22 January 1969)
Political alignmentPro-Beijing
LanguageTraditional Chinese
HeadquartersTai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong
Circulation530,000
Sister newspapersThe Sun (Hong Kong) (Ceased publication)
ISSN1018-8177
Websiteorientaldaily.on.cc Edit this at Wikidata
Oriental Daily News
Traditional Chinese東方日報
Simplified Chinese东方日报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinDōngfāng Rìbào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationDung1fong1 Yat6bou3
JyutpingDung1fong1 Jat6bou3
IPA[tʊŋ˥fɔŋ˥ jɐt̚˨pɔw˧]

Oriental Daily News is a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. It was established in 1969 by Ma Sik-yu and Ma Sik-chun, and was one of the two newspapers published by the Oriental Press Group Limited (Chinese: 東方報業集團有限公司). Relative to other Hong Kong newspapers, Oriental Daily News has an older readership.[citation needed]

History

The paper was founded in 1969.[1] Apple Daily was its main competitor.[1] The newspaper's website was started in February 2002, and includes e-paper versions of Oriental Daily. The whole printed version is uploaded onto the web allowing people from all over the world to read.[2] It is considered Pro-Beijing camp in its editorial stance.[3][4]

Content

It has two editorials every day. The first one is called the 'Main Editorial' (正論), which is a typical newspaper editorial.[5] The second one is called 'Kung Fu Tea' (功夫茶), which is written in the vernacular form of Cantonese, and is a daily critique of the misfits of the bureaucracy.[6]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b "How two fugitive opium dealers started a Hong Kong newspaper war". CNN Business. 5 September 2020. Archived from the original on 23 March 2021. Retrieved 4 June 2024.
  2. ^ "東方日報電子報" [Oriental Daily News e Paper]. Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 10 March 2021. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  3. ^ Feng, William Dezheng (December 2017). "Ideological dissonances among Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong: A corpus-based analysis of reports on the Occupy Central Movement". Discourse & Communication. 11 (6): 549–566. doi:10.1177/1750481317726928. hdl:10397/98137. ISSN 1750-4813.
  4. ^ Yu, Jess Macy (6 October 2014). "Hong Kong Newspapers, Pro- and Anti-Beijing, Weigh In on Protests". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 20 August 2024. Retrieved 20 August 2024.
  5. ^ "東方日報正論". Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.
  6. ^ "功夫茶". Oriental Daily News (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Archived from the original on 6 May 2022. Retrieved 6 May 2022.