Taiwan News
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Taiwan News (formerly China News) is one of the three English-language newspapers in Taiwan, the other two being the Taipei Times and the China Post. It is published by the food manufacturing company I-Mei, which also publishes the Mandarin-language news weekly of the same name (Taiwan News; the title being in English).
The China News was the first English language newspaper ever in Taiwan. Its name was changed to "Taiwan News" after I-Mei, a Taiwanese food tycoon purchased it from Simone Wei in 1999. The China News was established in Taiwan back in 1949, when the government of the Kuomintang settled on the island. At that time, the China News was a newspaper published in the afternoon.
Soon after that, the China Post was launched. It was published in the morning. In order to compete with this new concurrent, the China News had to change and was published in the morning in order not to lose its advertisements.
Since coming under the ownership of the I-Mei Group the editorial policy of the Taiwan News has been in favour of the Pan-Green coalition.
