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The Business Times
Type
| Daily newspaper
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Format
| Print, online
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Owner(s)
| SPH Media
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Editor
| Chen Huifen
[1]
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Founded
| 1 October 1976
; 47 years ago
(
1976-10-01
)
(17,383 issues)
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Political alignment
| Pro-business
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Language
| English
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Website
| businesstimes
.com
.sg
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The Business Times
is a Singaporean financial
newspaper
under
SPH Media
, a media organisation with businesses in print, digital, radio, and
outdoor media
in
Singapore
. The paper is published Monday to Saturday, with the Saturday edition called
The Business Times Weekend
. It had a circulation (print and digital) of 39,500.
Ownership
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It is part of the
SPH Media
group which also publishes
The Straits Times
and
The New Paper
.
[2]
History
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It is an
English-language
newspaper published since 1 October 1976. Prior to this, it was a supplement in
The Straits Times
.
[3]
The paper was launched on 15 July 1976, and the special presentation issue prior to the launch of the paper featured
George Magnus
.
[4]
The staff was first headed by Tsai Tan, who became the first female editor of a daily newspaper in Singapore.
[5]
In 1989, the newspaper won the Media Philanthropic Appeals category of the International Advertising Festival in
New York
.
[6]
The Business Times
Budding Artists Fund
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The Business Times
Budding Artists Fund was initiated in 2004 and adopted by
The Business Times
in 2005, with the aim to level the playing field and reach out to children and youths from financially disadvantaged backgrounds, ages six to 19. The Fund provides opportunities and access to the arts, it seeks to enable beneficiaries to learn, discover and nurture their talents so that they may grow in confidence and become resilient in overcoming their personal circumstances.
[7]
The Business Times
co-organises ChildAid, an annual youth charity concert with The Straits Times to raise funds for needy children from
The Straits Times
School Pocket Money Fund and
The Business Times
Budding Artists Fund.
[8]
Business Awards
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The Business Times
organises the following business awards events on a yearly basis:
- The Singapore Business Awards
[9]
- The Singapore Corporate Awards
[10]
- The Enterprise 50 (E50) Awards
[11]
- The Emerging Enterprise Award
[12]
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