The Development Course of Nanyang Business Daily

1923 was established in Singapore on September 6th. Twenty-three days later, the British colonial government ordered the publication to stop on the grounds of "involving party politics". In February of the following year, 1 was approved to be reissued.

194 1 year 65438+February 8, the Pacific War broke out, and Nanyang Business Daily was closed for 3 years and 7 months; /kloc-0 reissued on September 8, 945.

In May, 1948 Nanyang Business Daily was published, which was the first time that the series was published in Chinese outside Chinese mainland. By September, 1963, * * * has published more than 50 series of/kloc-0.

Nanfang Evening News was published on June 6th, 1950, renamed Nanyang Evening News on June 6th, 1963, and ceased publication on February 25th of the same year.

On July 23rd, 1958, Nanyang Newspaper Holdings Limited was established.

1969 In order to adapt to the changes in the political situation, Nanyang Business Daily was published in Malaysia and Singapore respectively.

1972,10,15. Simplified Chinese characters are adopted for the first time.

1975 Ma Xin Nanyang Business Daily was officially separated, and the reorganized Nanyang Business Daily in Malaysia was controlled by Malaysian citizens and became a localized newspaper.

1On June 30th, 979, the layout of Nanyang Business Daily was greatly reformed, and the traditional newspapers in China were changed from vertical to horizontal, which was similar to that in China.

On March 1983 and 16, Singapore Nanyang Commercial Daily and Sin Chew Daily merged into Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Evening News, and the Chinese newspaper industry in Singapore became a unified forum.

1989 was listed on April 7, 2007, becoming the first Chinese newspaper listed on Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange.

1993 65438+ 10, Nanyang Newspaper acquired all the shares of China Newspaper Life Publishing House Co., Ltd., with 6 kinds of newspapers. Nanyang Business Daily claims that its readership is 1.5 million, accounting for 60% of the total readership of Chinese newspapers and periodicals in Malaysia, and it is the largest Chinese publishing group in Malaysia.

1996165438+10. In October, Nanyang Business Daily entered the Internet field and set up a website on the Internet.

1997 10 launched a new website on 10 on 4 October, becoming the first newspaper in Malaysia to provide real-time online news.

In June 2000, Nanyang Online Co., Ltd. was established.

On May 28th, 20001,Huaren Holdings, a private limited company managed by Huaren, acquired Nanyang Newspaper Holdings from Hong Leong Group, and planned to acquire Nanyang Business Daily with 72.35% equity. The transaction price is 236,5438+024,966,5438+00 Gy in cash, that is, 5.50 Gy per share. Huaren's successful control of Nanyang Commercial Daily and Zhonghua Daily, two major Chinese newspapers in Malaysia, marked that the originally relatively independent Chinese newspapers in Malaysia began to be interfered by the ruling party. The owners of Sin Chew Daily and Guangming Daily bought some shares from Huaren Holdings, and the subsequent high-level transfer showed that Sin Chew Newspaper Group began to intervene in the business of Nanyang and Zhonghua newspapers, and the four major Chinese newspapers in Malaysia were monopolized by a single commercial group.

On June 6th, 2006, 10, Nanyang Business Daily, which has a history of 83 years, announced its revision, facing readers and the market with a brand-new look. After the revision, Nanyang Business Daily changed the title originally written by Pan Shou, a famous calligrapher and secretary general of Nanyang University, into computer words. Many old readers of Nanyang Business Daily reluctantly accepted this change, but the new headlines also erased people's historical memory. June 5438+1October 65438+July 2006, Tansley Hiew King Tiong, executive chairman of Sin Chew Media, bought 20.02 shares of Nanyang Newspaper, directly or indirectly controlling 44.76 shares, becoming the largest shareholder of Nanyang Newspaper. Later, some people objected that Malaysian Chinese newspapers were monopolized by Hiew King Tiong (including Sin Chew Daily, Nanyang Business Daily, Guangming Daily and China Daily).

On June 6th, Liu Ruiyuan, the owner of Oriental Daily and chairman of Kai Tak Bank Group, offered to Hiew King Tiong to buy the equity of Nanyang Newspaper, 165438, and promised to distribute the relevant equity to the Chinese community. The news was bombarded by the top management of Nanyang Business Daily. He Caifu, deputy editor-in-chief of Nanyang Business Daily, questioned Liu Ruiyuan's sincerity in buying in an interactive blog. Deng Lihua, assistant news editor of Nanyang Business Daily, also accused Liu Ruiyuan of being an absurd and insincere farce in today's interactive blog, and suspected that the purpose of buying was to "bring personal hatred and destroy Nanyang".