''Sharp Daily'' is a
Chinese-language free daily
tabloid newspaper, published in
Taipei
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Taiwan
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, and previously in
Hong Kong
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, by
Next Digital.
Taiwan edition
Launched on 24 October 2006 as a rival to ''Cola News'' (可樂新聞 Pinyin:Kělèxinwen), another free tabloid, published by
United Daily News, ''Sharp Daily'' shares news content with the Taiwanese ''
Apple Daily''. According to ''
Forbes
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'' each copy costs 2.8
New Taiwan dollar
The New Taiwan dollar (code: TWD; symbol: NT$, also abbreviated as NT), or simply the Taiwan dollar, is the official currency of the Republic of China (Taiwan). Usually, the $ sign precedes the amount, but NT$ is used to distinguish from othe ...
s to produce and its target readership is "the train-riding
working class"
Hong Kong edition
Sharp Daily was launched in Hong Kong on 19 September 2011 with a stated aim of 1 million copies per day. It was also the first free tabloid newspaper in Hong Kong to have an evening edition, although this was dropped in March 2012. The Hong Kong edition of Sharp Daily was closed down on 21 October 2013 after the owner
Jimmy Lai revealed that the newspaper had lost several hundred millions of
Hong Kong dollars in two years.
Apple's free sister paper Sharp Daily folds after losing millions
SCMP
The ''South China Morning Post'' (''SCMP''), with its Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Morning Post'', is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group. Founded in 1903 by Tse Tsan-tai and Alfred Cunningham, it has remained ...
Hong Kong
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References
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External links
''Sharp Daily'' Taiwan''Sharp Daily'' Hong KongNext Digital
Newspapers published in Taiwan
Chinese-language newspapers (Traditional Chinese)
Next Digital
Mass media in Taipei
2006 establishments in Taiwan
Newspapers established in 2006
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