''Lat Pau'' () was one of the earliest

Chinese-language Chinese ( or ) is a group of languages spoken natively by the ethnic Han Chinese majority and List of ethnic groups in China, many minority ethnic groups in China, as well as by various communities of the Chinese diaspora. Approximately 1.39& ...

newspapers published in

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under the

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. It was first published in December 1881 by

See Ewe Lay See Ewe Lay (c. 1851 - 29 August 1906), alternatively spelled Seet Ewe Lay, was a descendant of the wealthy Peranakan See clan and the founder of ''Lat Pau'', the first major Chinese newspaper in Singapore. Biography See was born in Malacca in abou ...

() under Lat Pau Press Ltd (). It was published for 52 years, ending in March 1932. It was Singapore's longest-running local-run Chinese newspaper before

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. ''Lat Pau'' initially was published in

Classical Chinese Classical Chinese is the language in which the classics of Chinese literature were written, from . For millennia thereafter, the written Chinese used in these works was imitated and iterated upon by scholars in a form now called Literary ...

. In 1925 the newspaper started publishing in

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. The newspaper's first editor was

Yeh Chi Yun Yeh Chih Yun (21 July 1859 - 9 September 1921), also known as Ye Mao Bin, Ye Ji Yin, Yong Wen, Ting Song Lu Shi Sun and Xing Er Sheng, was a Chinese newspaperman and poet. He was the Chief Editor of ''Lat Pau'', the first major Chinese newspaper in ...

. File:Lat Pau, 16 January 1925.jpg, The ''Lat Pau'', 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lat Pau Chinese-language newspapers Defunct newspapers published in Singapore Chinese-language mass media in Singapore Newspapers established in 1881 Publications disestablished in 1932 Defunct overseas Chinese newspapers