Oriental Daily News
{{Short description|Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong}}
{{About|the newspaper in Hong Kong|the newspaper in Malaysia|Oriental Daily News (Malaysia)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2022}}
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| type = Daily newspaper
| format = Broadsheet
| owners = Oriental Press Group
| publisher = Oriental Press Group
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| foundation = {{start date and age|22 January 1969}}
| political = Pro-Beijing
| language = Traditional Chinese
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| headquarters = Tai Po Industrial Estate, Hong Kong
| circulation = 530,000
| sister newspapers = The Sun (Hong Kong) (Ceased publication)
| ISSN = 1018-8177
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{{Infobox Chinese
| title = Oriental Daily News
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| s = 东方日报
| t = 東方日報
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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 ({{zh|t=東方報業集團有限公司}}). Relative to other Hong Kong newspapers, Oriental Daily News has an older readership.{{cn|date=June 2024}}
History
The paper was founded in 1969.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-09-05 |title=How two fugitive opium dealers started a Hong Kong newspaper war |url=https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/jimmy-lai-oriental-daily-dst-hnk-intl/index.html |access-date=2024-06-04 |website=CNN Business |language=en |archive-date=23 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210323123327/https://www.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/jimmy-lai-oriental-daily-dst-hnk-intl/index.html |url-status=live }} Apple Daily was its main competitor. 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.{{cite web |title=東方日報電子報 |trans-title=Oriental Daily News e Paper |url=https://epaper.on.cc/html5/?pub=odn |access-date=2022-05-06 |work=Oriental Daily News |language=zh-hk |archive-date=10 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210310235537/https://epaper.on.cc/html5/?pub=odn |url-status=live }} It is considered Pro-Beijing camp in its editorial stance.{{Cite journal |last=Feng |first=William Dezheng |date=December 2017 |title=Ideological dissonances among Chinese-language newspapers in Hong Kong: A corpus-based analysis of reports on the Occupy Central Movement |journal=Discourse & Communication |language=en |volume=11 |issue=6 |pages=549–566 |doi=10.1177/1750481317726928 |issn=1750-4813|hdl=10397/98137 |hdl-access=free }}{{Cite web |last=Yu |first=Jess Macy |date=2014-10-06 |title=Hong Kong Newspapers, Pro- and Anti-Beijing, Weigh In on Protests |url=https://archive.nytimes.com/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/hong-kong-newspapers-pro-and-anti-beijing-weigh-in-on-protests/ |access-date=2024-08-20 |website=The New York Times |language=en |archive-date=20 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240820002811/https://archive.nytimes.com/sinosphere.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/10/06/hong-kong-newspapers-pro-and-anti-beijing-weigh-in-on-protests/ |url-status=live }}
Content
It has two editorials every day. The first one is called the 'Main Editorial' (正論), which is a typical newspaper editorial.{{cite web|url=https://orientaldaily.on.cc/redirect/index.html?ad=20220506&s=00185|title=東方日報正論|work=Oriental Daily News|access-date=2022-05-06|language=zh-hk|archive-date=6 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506121206/https://orientaldaily.on.cc/redirect/index.html?ad=20220506&s=00185|url-status=live}} 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.{{cite web|url=https://orientaldaily.on.cc/redirect/index.html?ad=20220506&s=00189|title=功夫茶|work=Oriental Daily News|access-date=2022-05-06|language=zh-hk|archive-date=6 May 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220506121205/https://orientaldaily.on.cc/redirect/index.html?ad=20220506&s=00189|url-status=live}}
See also
References
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External links
- {{official website}} {{in lang|zh}}
- [https://www.bloomberg.com/quote/18:HK Oriental Press Group] at Bloomberg Markets
{{Newspapers in Hong Kong}}