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The Standard (Hong Kong)

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The Standard is an English free newspaper in Hong Kong with a daily circulation in 2012 of 200,450. [1]

33 relations: A Kung Ngam, Aw Boon Haw, Broadband, Broadsheet, Charles Ho, Chinese Civil War, Columbia, Missouri, Dot-com bubble, Eastern Express (newspaper), Editor-in-chief, Elsie Leung, Free newspaper, Haw Par Corporation, Headline Daily, Hong Kong, Human capital, Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong), Joint Publishing, Kuomintang, Orange Sky Golden Harvest, Public interest, Robert Chow, Sally Aw, Sing Tao Daily, Sing Tao Holdings, Sing Tao News Corporation, Singapore Tiger Standard, South China Morning Post, Tabloid (newspaper format), Tasmania, United Kingdom, University of Missouri, Wan Chai Pier.

A Kung Ngam

A Kung Ngam is a village and an area in northeast Shau Kei Wan in the north of Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong.

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Aw Boon Haw

Aw Boon-Haw (1882 in Rangoon, British Burma – 1954 in Hawaii), OBE, was a Burmese Chinese entrepreneur and philanthropist best known for introducing Tiger Balm.

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Broadband

In telecommunications, broadband is wide bandwidth data transmission which transports multiple signals and traffic types.

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Broadsheet

A broadsheet is the largest newspaper format and is characterized by long vertical pages (typically). Other common newspaper formats include the smaller Berliner and tabloid/compact formats.

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Charles Ho

Charles Ho Tsu-kwok, GBM (born 23 June 1949) is a Hong Kong pro-Beijing businessman who is the chairman of the Sing Tao News Corporation Limited and an independent non-executive director of Shun Tak Holdings.

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Chinese Civil War

The Chinese Civil War was a war fought between the Kuomintang (KMT)-led government of the Republic of China and the Communist Party of China (CPC).

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Columbia, Missouri

Columbia is a city in Missouri and the county seat of Boone County.

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Dot-com bubble

The dot-com bubble (also known as the dot-com boom, the dot-com crash, the Y2K crash, the Y2K bubble, the tech bubble, the Internet bubble, the dot-com collapse, and the information technology bubble) was a historic economic bubble and period of excessive speculation that occurred roughly from 1997 to 2001, a period of extreme growth in the usage and adaptation of the Internet.

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Eastern Express (newspaper)

The Eastern Express was an English-language newspaper published in Hong Kong from February 1994 to June 1996 by the Oriental Press Group.

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Editor-in-chief

An editor-in-chief, also known as lead editor, chief editor, managing or executive editor, is a publication's editorial leader who has final responsibility for its operations and policies.

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Elsie Leung

Elsie Leung Oi-sie, (GBM, JP, (born on 24 April 1939, Hong Kong) was the Secretary for Justice of Hong Kong from 1997 to 2005, and was a member of the Executive Council of Hong Kong. She was succeeded by Wong Yan Lung, SC, on 20 October 2005.

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Free newspaper

Free newspapers are distributed free of charge, often in central places in cities and towns, on public transport, with other newspapers, or separately door-to-door.

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Haw Par Corporation

Haw Par Corporation Limited is a Singapore-based company involved in healthcare, leisure products, property and investment.

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Headline Daily

Headline Daily was launched on 12 July 2005, by Sing Tao Newspaper Group Limited and became the second free Chinese newspaper published officially in Hong Kong (Metro Daily being the first).

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Hong Kong

Hong Kong (Chinese: 香港), officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, is an autonomous territory of China on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in East Asia.

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Human capital

Human capital is a term popularized by Gary Becker, an economist and Nobel Laureate from the University of Chicago, and Jacob Mincer.

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Independent Commission Against Corruption (Hong Kong)

The Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC;; previously known as the before 1997) of Hong Kong was established by Governor Sir Murray MacLehose on 15 February 1974, when Hong Kong was under British rule.

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Joint Publishing

Joint Publishing, also known as Sanlian Press or SDX Joint Publishing, is a book store chain and publisher founded at Queen's Road Central in Hong Kong on 18 October 1948.

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Kuomintang

The Kuomintang of China (KMT; often translated as the Nationalist Party of China) is a major political party in the Republic of China on Taiwan, based in Taipei and is currently the opposition political party in the Legislative Yuan.

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Orange Sky Golden Harvest

Orange Sky Golden Harvest (OSGH), previously known as Golden Harvest from 1970 to 2009, is a film production, distribution, and exhibition company based in Hong Kong.

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Public interest

Public interest is "the welfare or well-being of the general public".

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Robert Chow

Robert Chow Yung (born 22 April 1950), BBS, is a Hong Kong journalist and media personality who is a former RTHK radio host.

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Sally Aw

Aw Sian also known as Sally Aw, OBE, DStJ, JP, is a Hong Kong businesswoman and adopted daughter of the Burmese-Hakka Chinese entrepreneur and newspaper proprietor Aw Boon-haw.

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Sing Tao Daily

The Sing Tao Daily also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao is Hong Kong's second largest Chinese language newspaper.

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Sing Tao Holdings

Sing Tao Holdings Limited was a Bermuda-incorporated company, but headquartered in Hong Kong.

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Sing Tao News Corporation

Sing Tao News Corporation Limited is a Bermuda-incorporated media company based in Hong Kong.

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Singapore Tiger Standard

The Singapore Standard more commonly known as Singapore Tiger Standard or Tiger Standard, was a Singapore newspaper that was published in English language.

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South China Morning Post

The South China Morning Post (also known as SCMP or The Post), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong English-language newspaper and Hong Kong's newspaper of record.

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Tabloid (newspaper format)

A tabloid is a newspaper with a compact page size smaller than broadsheet.

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Tasmania

Tasmania (abbreviated as Tas and known colloquially as Tassie) is an island state of Australia.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Missouri

The University of Missouri (also, Mizzou, or MU) is a public, land-grant research university in Columbia, Missouri.

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Wan Chai Pier

The Wan Chai Pier, or Wan Chai Ferry Pier, is a pier at the coast of Wan Chai North on the Hong Kong Island of Hong Kong.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Standard_(Hong_Kong)

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