Newspapers of Hong Kong

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Below is a list of newspapers in Hong Kong, categorized by language.

1 English-language newspapers
2 Chinese-language newspapers
3 Free tabloids
4 Defunct newspapers
5 Popularity
6 Paparazzi
7 Number and price
8 See also
9 External links

[edit] English-language newspapers

South China Morning Post
The Standard (formerly, HK-iMail, and earlier Hong Kong Standard)
The Sunday Examiner (Catholic)
China Daily Hong Kong Edition

The former two English publications are regarded as neutral towards the government and are mostly "serious" newspapers.

[edit] Chinese-language newspapers

Apple Daily (蘋果日報)
Hong Kong Commercial Daily (香港商報)
Hong Kong Daily News (新報)
Hong Kong Economic Journal (信報財經新聞)
Hong Kong Economic Times (香港經濟日報)
Kung Kao Po (公教報)
Ming Pao (明報)
Oriental Daily News (東方日報)
Sing Pao Daily News (成報)
Sing Tao Daily (星島日報)
The Sun (太陽報)
Ta Kung Pao (大公報)
Tin Tin Daily News (天天日報), defunct
Wen Wei Po (文匯報)

Ta Kung Pao, Hong Kong Commercial Daily, Sing Pao, Sing Tao and Wenweipao are all considered pro-Beijing and pro-government. Oriental Daily, Apple Daily and The Sun are known for their sensational style and daily obscene matters (including "prostitution guides"). Ming Pao is the one favoured by students. Hong Kong Economic Journal and Hong Kong Economic Times are business-oriented.

[edit] Free tabloids

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Express Post (快線周報)
Headline Daily (頭條日報)
The Epoch Times (大紀元時報)
Metropolis Daily (都市日報)

[edit] Defunct newspapers

Sing Tao Evening News (1938-1996)
Eastern Express (1994-1996)
Hong Kong United Daily (1992-1995)
Television Daily ( - 1995)
Wah Kiu Yat Pao (1925-1995)
Hong Kong Today (1993-1994)
Hong Kong Times (1949-1994)
Ching Pao ( -1991)
The Star (1965-1984)

[edit] Popularity

With little competition, South China Morning Post is the most popular English newspaper. As to Cantonese newspapers, Oriental Daily and Apple Daily is among top sellers. For the financial newspapers, Hong Kong Economic Times is the best-selling one. According to independent surveys, Ming Pao and Economic Journal are the most trusted papers by local readers.^{[citation needed]}

[edit] Paparazzi

The fact that The Sun and Oriental Daily are of the highest circulation can be explained by their approach.

Both use an informal style, concentrating on celebrity gossip and paparazzi photography, and written to some degree in colloquial Cantonese phrases. This style of writing, as in other markets, is popular with a large section of the public. The content is often exaggerated or outright fabricated in order to claim "exclusives". Although the subjects of these alleged falsehoods have tried to express their dissatifaction through actions such as refusing interviews or even suing the reporters, they have not stopped the papers' activities.

[edit] Number and price

The number of newspapers in the market has been stable for a long time. There are occasional attempts at establishing new types of newspaper and theme-oriented papers, but most of these new papers cannot compete with the "main stream" papers.

The papers have the fixed price at HKD$6 except South China Morning Post ($7, while the Sunday edition cost $8). Metropolis Daily, Headline Daily, am730, and The Epoch Times are free papers, distributed at MTR and KCR stations. The Sun has reduced its price to $3 from October 19, 2005 onwards, supposedly for the purpose of competing with the three free papers.