Kwong Wah Yit Poh

Kwong Wah Yit Poh
An old issue of Kwong Wah Yit Poh
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Kwong Wah Yit Poh Press Berhad
Founder(s)Sun Yat-sen
FoundedDecember 20, 1910; 113 years ago (1910-12-20)
LanguageChinese
Headquarters19, Presgrave Street,
10300 Penang, Malaysia
Circulation100,000
Websitewww.kwongwah.com.my
Kwong Wah Yit Poh
Traditional Chinese光華日報
Simplified Chinese光华日报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinGuānghuá Rìbào
Wade–GilesKuang1-hua2 Jih4-pao4

Kwong Wah Yit Poh or Kwong Wah Daily (simplified Chinese: 光华日报; traditional Chinese: 光華日報; pinyin: Guānghuá Rìbào; Wade–Giles: Kuang1-hua2 Jih4-pao4) is a Malaysian Chinese daily that was founded in 1910 by Chinese revolutionary Sun Yat-sen. It is the oldest surviving Chinese-language newspaper in Southeast Asia.[1]

  1. ^ Sun, Wanning, ed. (3 July 2006). Media and the Chinese Diaspora: Community, Communications and Commerce. London: Routledge. p. 139. doi:10.4324/9780203873601. ISBN 978-0-203-87360-1. Archived from the original on 16 June 2024 – via Taylor & Francis.