Founder(s) | See Ewe Lay |
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Publisher | Lat Pau Press Ltd |
Founded | December 1881 |
Language | Chinese |
Ceased publication | March 1932 |
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Traditional Chinese | 叻報 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lat Pau ( Chinese: 叻報; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: La̍t Pò; Wade–Giles: Lê4 Pao4) was one of the earliest Chinese-language newspapers published in Singapore under the Straits Settlements. It was first published in December 1881 by See Ewe Lay ( Chinese: 薛有禮; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Sih Ū-lé) under Lat Pau Press Ltd ( Chinese: 叻報有限公司). It was published for 52 years, ending in March 1932. It was Singapore's longest-running local-run Chinese newspaper before World War II. [1] [2] [3]
Lat Pau initially was published in Classical Chinese. In 1925 the newspaper started publishing in Vernacular Chinese. The newspaper's first editor was Yeh Chi Yun. [4]