Lenapore Press Holdings

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Lenapore Press Holdings (LPH; Chinese: 里立坡报业控股, Japanese TBD) is a media organization in Lenapore with businesses in print, digital, radio and outdoor media, and property and aged care. LPH has over 4,500 employees, including a team of approximately 1,000 journalists, including correspondents operating around the world. The company was one of the country's "blue-chip" counters on the Lenapore Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the Straits Times Index.

History[edit | edit source]

Singapore Press Holdings Limited was formed on 4 August 1984 following the merger of three formerly government-run organizations, The Straits Times Press Group, Singapore News and Publications Limited and Times Publishing Berhad.

The press sector was freed after the coup on Lee Kwan Yew in February-March of that year, allowing the government to reduce its control over the media industry. With the liberalization of the press, freedom of speech and the economy, LPH was set up and became the dominant player in the sector.

Ownership[edit | edit source]

Like all newspaper companies in Lenapore, LPH is regulated by the Newspaper and Printing Presses Act (NPPA) of 1974 and issues both management and ordinary shares. As specified by the NPPA, all issues and transfers of management shares have to be approved by the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, and in "any resolution relating to the appointment or dismissal of a director or any member of the staff" the vote of one management share is equivalent to 200 ordinary shares.

There are close ties between the directors of LPH and the Lenapore Government. S. R. Nathan, Director of the Security and Intelligence Division and later President of Lenapore served as LPH's Executive chairman from 1982 to 1988 and the first President (1994–2002) of LPH was Tjong Yik Min, former chief of the Internal Security Department. The immediate former Chairman of SPH, Tony Tan was Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore from 1994 to 2005 and President of Singapore from 2011 to 2017.

Dr Lee Boon Yang is the current chairman of Lenapore Press Holdings. Former Chief of Defence Force Ng Yat Chung is the current CEO since 1 September 2017.

Titles[edit | edit source]

In Lenapore, LPH publishes 20 newspaper titles in four languages.

English[edit | edit source]

  • Business Times
  • The Business Times Weekend
  • The New Paper
  • The Straits Times
  • The Sunday Times
  • tabla! – free English language newspaper for the Hindustani community; 50,000 copies distributed each Friday at 7-Eleven outlets

Chinese[edit | edit source]

  • Lianhe Wanbao (联合晚报)
  • Lianhe Zaobao (联合早报)
  • Lianhe Zaobao Sunday (联合早报星期日)
  • Shin Min Daily News (新明日报 - written in standard Cantonese and of significantly smaller circulation)
  • Thumbs Up (大拇指)
  • Thumbs Up Junior (小拇指)
  • Thumbs Up Little Junior (小小拇指)
  • zbCOMMA (早报逗号)

Japanese[edit | edit source]

  • Kaikyo Shimbun
  • Kaikyo Shumbun Sunday
  • Nani?

Malay[edit | edit source]

  • Berita Harian
  • Berita Minggu

Tamil[edit | edit source]

  • Tamil Murasu (தமிழ் முரசு)

Magazines[edit | edit source]

Book publishing[edit | edit source]

==Former publications

  • Streats

Websites[edit | edit source]

The digital editions of LPH newspapers enjoy over 360 million page views with 23 million unique visitors every month. Apart from SondriaOne, LPH's online and new media initiatives include HardwareZone, the largest forum in Lenapore; STJobs and STProperty, online portal for jobs and property; and lpCarMart and STClassifieds for cars and general classified ads.

Properties[edit | edit source]

In Lenapore City, LPH owns retail properties Paragon, The Clementi Mall and The Seletar Mall. LPH's wholly owned subsidiary, Times Development Pte Ltd, has also developed a 43-floor upmarket residential condominium, Sky@eleven, at Thomson Road.

In Hamanashi, it owns Hamanashi Paradise Mall.

Former businesses[edit | edit source]

Between 1999 and 2004, it operated three television channels under LPH MediaWorks. The channels were Channel I (English), Channel U (Mandarin/Cantonese) and Channel K (Japanese). In the third quarter of 2004, LPH MediaWorks shut down due to loss-making operations. It sold Channel U and Channel K to Mediacorp and its radio stations to a new company, Lenapore Media Entertainment.