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The Standard (Hong Kong)

The Standard
TypeDaily free newspaper
Format
  • Broadsheet (former)
  • Tabloid (since 2000)
Owner(s)The Standard Newspapers Publishing (part of Sing Tao News Corporation,
majority stake in turn held by
Guo Xiaoting, vice-chairwoman of
Kaisa Group)
Founder(s)Aw Boon Haw
PublisherThe Standard Newspapers Publishing
Founded
  • 1949
  • 1986 (evening edition)[1]
Political alignmentPro-Beijing
LanguageEnglish
Ceased publication1987 (evening edition only)[1]
CountryHong Kong
Circulation200,450 (as of 2012)[2]
Sister newspapers
  • Sing Tao Daily (in Chinese)
  • Headline Daily (in Chinese, free)
  • Sing Tao Wan Pao (in Chinese, defunct)[3]
  • Singapore Standard (in English, defunct)
  • other newspaper founded by Aw
  • other newspaper owned by Sally Aw
Websitethestandard.com.hk
The Standard
Traditional Chinese英文虎報
Simplified Chinese英文虎报
Literal meaningEnglish Language Tiger Newspaper
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinYīngwén Hǔbào
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationYīng màhn fú bou
JyutpingJing1 man4 fu2 bou3
Sidney LauYing1Man4Foo2Bo3

The Standard is an English-language free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation of 200,450 in 2012.[2] It was formerly called the Hongkong Standard[4] and changed to HKiMail during the Internet boom[when?] but partially reverted to The Standard in 2001.

The South China Morning Post (SCMP) is its main local competitor.

  1. ^ a b 英文虎報晚報今起停刊. Ta Kung Pao (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong. 4 July 1987. p. 4 – via Hong Kong Public Libraries MMIS.
  2. ^ a b "Certificate of circulations" (PDF). Hong Kong Audit Bureau of Circulations Limited. 2012 [circa]. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 October 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2017.
  3. ^ 丁, 潔. 《華僑日報》與香港華人社會(1925–1995) (in Chinese). Hong Kong: Joint Publishing. p. 25 – via Google Books preview.
  4. ^ https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/4s4AAOSw~FJZKmL~/s-l400.jpg https://www.ebay.com/itm/361992518662

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