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<i>United Daily News</i> (Philippines)

United Daily News (Philippines)

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This article is about the newspaper in the Philippines. For the newspaper in Taiwan, see United Daily News.

The United Daily News (Chinese: 聯合日報; pinyin: Liánhé Rìbào; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Liân-ha̍p Ji̍t-pò) is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Chinese language. As of 2008, the newspaper had a circulation of 32,000, making it the Philippines' second-largest Chinese-language newspaper in terms of circulation,[1] after the World News.[2]

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The newspaper, the only Chinese-language newspaper that was authorized to publish during the martial law era,[3] was founded in 1973 by Cheng Kim Tiao,[4] merging two pre-existing Chinese-language newspapers: the Kong Li Po (公理報), founded in 1911, and the Great China Press (大中華日報), established after World War II.[5] Both newspapers were known to be sympathetic to the Kuomintang, with the Kong Li Po even being founded by Wu Ching-ming, Sun Yat-sen's organizer in the Philippines.[6] Its founding editor-in-chief, Sy Yinchow (Chinese: 施穎洲; pinyin: Shī Yǐngzhōu; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Si Éng-chiu),[7] was the world's longest-serving editor-in-chief, having served in that position at a number of publications since 1945.[8] Known as the "dean of Chinese media practitioners",[8] Sy wrote daily for the newspaper until his death in 2014.[9]

In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, the United Daily News also contained an English-language section,[5] which later became its own newspaper called the United News.

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