Talk:Ming Pao

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"Ming Pao Group also runs magazines called Ming Pao Weekly, Ming Pao Monthly, and Yazhou Zhoukan, all are publications with good reputation."

What da? Ming Pao Weekly is just something little less than porn. Have you guys every see the photos they have in there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 141.157.247.153 (talk) 06:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)

Please note that Ming Pao has already bought the 50% of Yazhou Zhoukan owned by TOM. Yazhou Zhoukan should be now 100% owned by Ming Pao.

What about the report from the Jamestown Foundation in 2001, that describes a bit of the paper's history:

"-- Ming Pao Daily News

As preparation for Hong Kong's return to China in 1997, the Chinese government made vigorous attempts in the early 1990s to purchase several major media agencies in Hong Kong. This was done through the use of third-party merchants who have close business ties with China.

In October of 1995 Ming Pao Daily News was bought by a wealthy Malaysian merchant in the timber industry, Datuk Tiong Hiew King. As people guessed, Datuk had close business ties with China. Like Sing Tao, Ming Pao has since been heavily influenced by the Chinese government. For example, there is an unwritten rule at both Sing Tao and Ming Pao that no exclusive reports on the Pro-Democracy Movement of China are to be published. In order to appear to be "neutral" and "independent," they do however publish some related reports, but they are merely based on news releases from sources like the Hong Kong Information Center for Human Rights & Democratic Movement in China. Employees at Ming Pao's New York office have told sources that their "true boss" is none other than the Chinese Consulate [in New York], and that they are obligated to do whatever the Consulate asks.

Ming Pao claims a circulation of 115,000 and is distributed mainly on the east coast of the United States."

http://www.jamestown.org/publications_details.php?volume_id=17&issue_d=6%2038&article_id=4587

The wiki article seems a bit biased to me.

I added more information, e.g. the awards won by Ming Pao, in the second paragraph. This can help to convince readers that Ming Pao is really a reliable and popular newspaper.

I am wondering so many users called GpXXxxx editing newspapers of Hong Kong? quite funny thing. --FallingInLoveWithPitoc 14:11, 25 Oct 2003 (UTC)

We are students from The University of Hong Kong.It's our assignment to edit the pages on newspaper of HK.Gp means group, for example gp1 means group1, xxx is our name. ^.~

explanation of changes by gp2christy
I have added the subtitle " Ming Pao " in overseas and I have found some information of Ming Pao publication in Canada. I add this subtitle as I think it will be good for our group to start searching and adding information that is limited to that in Hong Kong only. I hope my groupmates and I can find more information about Ming Pao in other countries as well, e.g. Ming Pao in USA??

I wrote something about Ming Pao in Canada because i want to find the difference between the newspaper in Canada and that in Hong Kong, by comparing their content and reporting style.

Reply:
This is a project of a journalism course in the University of Hong Kong. so people using GpXXXXXX to edit articles in order to get marks.

About posting pictures/images:
How can I put pictures on my pages?

thought jinyong is more buddhist than confucian?--little Alex 03:49, Dec 8, 2004 (UTC)

First, you need the right to publish the picture under the GNU Free Documentation License. This means that either you created the picture and therefore own the copyright, or it is in the public domain. If the picture is located on a server you control, you can refer to that image from your wiki page by simply including its URL, like this: http://my.webserver.com/image.png and it will be included. (Note it will only be linked, not displayed.) If instead you want to upload a picture to wikipedia.org, you can use special:upload as a logged-in user and once it is uploaded, you can refer to it in your wiki pages as above, by including its file name Alternate Text. See also Image use policy.

From: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Editing_FAQ#How_can_I_put_pictures_on_my_pages?

Jacky

what i did in the proof-reading
i deleted the sentence " It (Ming Pao) always aspires in becoming the 'New York Times of Hong Kong'.

Firstly, I dont quite understand in which sense Ming Pao wants to become New York Times of Hong Kong. Secondly, I think we have no further proof to give out this comment. Thus, i thnk it is not appropriate to add this sentence. It seems that it is too objective.

Moreover, I have corrected the grammatical mistakes in the first few paragraphs.

Kao Hsin-chiang
who's this person? is his title correct? for people without a wiki page, it'd be courteous to include the Chinese character of his name. thanks. --little Alex 19:47, Feb 3, 2005 (UTC)

POV
I just copyedited the article but I feel that the article that these students left behind is heavily POV. It almost seems to be a text promoting the newspaper. What do others think? -- KittySaturn 20:33, 2005 Feb 19 (UTC)


 * I agree. The more I read the article, the more it sounds like an advertisement. Little do the writers know this actually makes me want to read Ming Pao less. Anyway, I suggest a rewrite for the entire article because it really needs one. I'm sorry to be so blunt but it's a shame to see POV bias to such extent. --Funnykidrian 01:47, 21 July 2006 (UTC)


 * I think almost all the articles that the students edited have a POV problem, unfortunately.--little Alex 03:21, 21 July 2006 (UTC)
 * Generally, I don't think it's bad enough to warrant a complete re-write. Those POV problems can easily be rectified without major reconstructions. This sentence definitely warrants a change: "Well-known for its accuracy in language, many secondary schools in Hong Kong encourage their students to subscribe to Ming Pao in order to improve their Chinese language."
 * Also, the two 2005/2006 incidents should probably be put into a separate heading later in the article.--Alexio 11:17, 7 August 2006 (UTC)

information regarding Ming Pao's content
Should there be a section about Ming Pao's layout for both the paper version and web version? Clearumbrella (talk) 20:22, 20 April 2017 (UTC)

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