Lat Pau

Lat Pau

The Lat Pau, 28 August 1890
Founder(s)	See Ewe Lay
Publisher	Lat Pau Press Ltd
Founded	December 1881
Language	Chinese
Ceased publication	March 1932
Headquarters	Singapore
Website	N.A.

Lat Pau
Traditional Chinese	叻報
Simplified Chinese	叻报
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Lè bào Hakka Romanization liag6 bau5 Yue: Cantonese Jyutping lek1 bou3 Southern Min Teochew Peng'im lag8 bo3

Lat Pau (Chinese: 叻報) was one of the earliest Chinese-language newspapers published in Singapore. It was firstly published by See Ewe Lay (Chinese: 薛有礼) in name of Lat Pau Press Ltd (Chinese: 叻報有限公司) since December 1881, and in circulation for 52 years until its final print at March 1932, where makes it become to be the longest local-running Chinese newspaper in the pre-World War II.^[1][2][3]

Lat Pau initially was published in Classical Chinese, however from 1925 onwards, the newspaper switched to use Vernacular Chinese.

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  The Lat Pau, 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese.

References

1. Lo-Fen I, Smoking and Patriotism: A Study of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company’s Advertisements on Lat Pau During the May Fourth Movement Period A Discourse on the Gothic Style in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi (Strange Chinese Stories), Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, Volume 54, No.2 (Linguistics & Literature).
2. 張麗萍, 叻報復刊的《荒島》, Fo Guang University
3. Lat Pau, National University of Singapore Library