Taiwan News is one of the three English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 language newspaper

Newspaper

A newspaper is a scheduled publication containing news of current events, informative articles, diverse features and advertising. It usually is printed on relatively inexpensive, low-grade paper such as newsprint. By 2007, there were 6580 daily newspapers in the world selling 395 million copies a...

s in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

, the other two being the Taipei Times

Taipei Times

The Taipei Times is one of the three major English-language newspapers in the Republic of China the other two being the Taiwan News and The China Post...

and The China Post

The China Post

For the article on the postal system based in the People's Republic of China, see China Post.The China Post is one of the three English-language newspapers published in Taiwan , the other two being Taiwan News and the Taipei Times. It was established by Mr. and Mrs. Y.P. Huang in 1952...

. It is published by the food manufacturing company I-Mei, which also publishes the Chinese Mandarin language news weekly of the same name (Taiwan News; the title being in English).

The China News was established in Taiwan in 1949. At that time, the China News was published in the afternoon. Its first competitor, The China Post, appeared in 1952 and was published in the morning. In order to stay competitive, the China News moved to a morning publication schedule in order not to lose its advertisements.

Its name was changed to Taiwan News after I-Mei, a food manufacturing group purchased it from Simone Wei in 1999. Since coming under the ownership of the I-Mei Group the editorial policy of the Taiwan News has been in favour of the Pan-Green coalition

Pan-Green Coalition

The Pan-Green Coalition or Pan-Green Camp, is an informal political alliance of the Republic of China, commonly known as "Taiwan", consisting of the Democratic Progressive Party , Taiwan Solidarity Union , and the minor Taiwan Independence Party...

.
On 1 January 2008, the Taiwan News started publishing in a tabloid format replacing the old broadsheet style. On 27 September 2010 Taiwan News President Jack Wong announced that the Taiwan News would cease publishing a print edition and only be available online. The final print edition of the Taiwan News was published on 30 September 2010.

External links

• Taiwan News
• English-language Taiwan News daily gets new look - CNA, 1 January 2008
• Taiwan News now a digital multi-media website - Taiwan News Online, 28 September 2010