The ''Liberty Times'' is a national

newspaper A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, spor ...

published in

Taiwan Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a country in East Asia, at the junction of the East and South China Seas in the northwestern Pacific Ocean, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the northwest, Japan to the no ...

. Founded by

Lin Rong-San Lin Rong-san (; 27 May 1939 – 28 November 2015) was a Taiwanese politician, publisher and businessman. He was the founder of Union Bank of Taiwan, and the publisher of '' Liberty Times'' and '' Taipei Times''. Career He won election to the Le ...

, it is published by the Liberty Times Group, which also publishes '' Taipei Times'', an

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newspaper . The newspaper was first published on 17 April 1980, as Liberty Daily, before adopting its current name in 1987. It is one of the four most influential newspapers in Taiwan, the other three being the '' Apple Daily'', the '' China Times'', and the ''

United Daily News ''United Daily News'' (UDN; ) is a newspaper published in Taiwan. It is considered to support the pan-Blue Coalition in its editorials. History UDN was founded in 1951 by Wang Tiwu as a merger of three newspapers, ''Popular Daily'' (全民� ...

''. While the ''United Daily News'' is regarded as taking an editorial line that supports a Pan-Blue political stance, the Liberty Times is thought to take a Pan Green pro-independence political stance.

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* {{in lang, zh Chinese-language newspapers (Traditional Chinese) Newspapers published in Taiwan Newspapers established in 1980 Mass media in Taipei 1980 establishments in Taiwan Taiwan independence movement