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| Formerly | Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated (Private) Limited | ||||||||||
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| Company type | Private company | ||||||||||
| Industry | Newspaper publishing | ||||||||||
| Founded | 1941 | ||||||||||
| Founder | Aw Boon Haw | ||||||||||
| Defunct | 1980s | ||||||||||
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| Headquarters | Singapore | ||||||||||
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| Owner | Aw family | ||||||||||
| Subsidiaries | Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated (Malaysia) | ||||||||||
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| Traditional Chinese | 星系報業有限公司 | ||||||||||
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Sin Poh (Star News) Amalgamated Limited was a Singapore publisher, which published Sin Chew Jit Poh (Chinese: 星洲日報) in Singapore and Malaysia, as well as Sin Pin Jit Poh (Chinese: 星檳日報) in Penang, Malaysia.
The Malaysia editions were sold to a Malaysian businessman in 1982. In 1975, due to the a new legislation of Singapore, the assets and the rights to publish Singapore edition of Sin Chew Jit Poh, was sold to Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited,[2] but the descendant of the founder, the Aw family, retained some of the management shares.[2] In 1977, Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited made an initial public offering to sell the ordinary shares of the company[2] and merged to form Singapore News and Publications Limited,[3] a predecessor of Singapore Press Holdings in 1982.
- ^ "Home". tis.bizfile.gov.sg.
- ^ a b c Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore) Limited (21 October 1977). "Offer for sale of 5,322,236 ordinary shares of S$1.00 each at S$1.05 per share by the public trustee". The Straits Times. Singapore. pp. 34 to 35. Retrieved 7 October 2017 – via Singapore National Library.
- ^ "Chinese papers link up". The Straits Times. Singapore. 19 March 1983. Retrieved 8 October 2017 – via Singapore National Library.