The New Evening Post (Chinese: 新晚報) was a Hong Kong newspaper. It was the evening edition of Ta Kung Pao. It started printing on October 15, 1950 and stopped printing on July 27, 1997.[1]

New Evening Post
TypeNight newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
FoundedOctober 5, 1950
Political alignmentPro-Communist
LanguageChinese (in Traditional Chinese characters)
Ceased publication1997
HeadquartersHong Kong SAR, China
Sister newspapersTa Kung Pao
New Evening Post
Traditional Chinese新晚報
Simplified Chinese新晚报

The famous novelist Jin Yong was an editor there in 1952.[citation needed] Jin Yong later founded Ming Pao.

Namesake edit

In August 2012, a namesake free tabloid newspaper[2] was launched by a company that was chaired by Ha Ping (Chinese: 夏萍).[3] In 2014 it was ceased publication.[4]

References edit

  1. ^ Lai, C. P. Media in Hong Kong: Press Freedom and Political Change, 1967-2005; Routledge:New York City; pp 117–145.
  2. ^ "New Evening Post relaunched to back Beijing loyalists in election". South China Morning Post. Hong Kong.
  3. ^ 新晚報復刊變免費 期3年回本. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 21 August 2012. Retrieved 17 March 2019.
  4. ^ 复刊两年免费变收费 香港《新晚报》再次停刊 (in Chinese). China News Service. 29 March 2014. Archived from the original on 3 April 2014. Retrieved 17 March 2019.