Oriental Press Group

Oriental Press Group Limited

The headquarters in Tai Po Industrial Estate
Company type	Public
Traded as	SEHK: 18
Industry	Publishing
Founded	14 January 1969; 55 years ago (1969-01-14) in British Hong Kong
Founder	Ma Shek-chun
Headquarters	Hong Kong , China
Area served	Hong Kong
Key people	Ma Ching-fat (Chairman) Ma Ching-choi (Vice-Chairman)
Products	newspaper
Services	news website news and current affairs app stock market app
Owner	Ma Shek-chun family
Website	opg.on.cc

Oriental Press Group Limited is the publishing company of Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily News, as well as now defunct The Sun and Eastern Express. Oriental Press Group was the founding company of the magazines East Week, East Touch and Oriental Sunday, but the magazines were sold in the 2000s. Oriental Press Group, through subsidiary, operates news website on.cc. The shares of Oriental Press Group is traded in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.

History

Oriental Press Group Limited is incorporated on 14 January 1969^[1] and start to publish Oriental Daily News on 22 January of the same year.^{[2][non-primary source needed]}

The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since 18 August 1987.^[3]

Products and services

Oriental Daily News is one of the major newspaper of Hong Kong. Its archrival is Apple Daily and other Chinese/Cantonese language newspapers of Hong Kong.

On top of its flagship newspaper Oriental Daily News, the company also founded The Sun (Chinese: 太陽報) in 1999^[4] and Eastern Express. The former was published in Traditional Chinese characters while the latter was an English newspaper. Nevertheless, they were folded.

The company also founded a series of magazines that named after 東 (transliterated as East or Oriental): East Week (Chinese: 東周刊), Oriental Sunday [zh] (Chinese: 東方新地) and East Touch (Chinese: 東Touch). All of them were sold from 2001 to 2002 to Emperor Group or Sing Tao Holdings.^[4][5][6] Some of them are still published by other companies.

The company launches the news website on.cc (at that time use the url orisun.com^[4]) in 2000. It offers the online version of Oriental Daily News under the sub domain orientaldaily.on.cc, as well as streaming video news occasionally.

Management and ownership

The company is founded by Ma Shek-chun (Chinese: 馬惜珍), which Ma's son, Ma Ching-kwan (Chinese: 馬澄坤), takeover the operation in 1977.^[2] Ma Shek-chun was fled to Taiwan in the 1970s as a crime suspect and was wanted by Hong Kong Police Force for over 30 years.^[7]

Ma Shek-chun two other sons, Ma Ching-fat (Chinese: 馬澄發) and Ma Ching-choi (Chinese: 馬澄財),^[8] are the current chairman and vice-chairman of the company respectively.^[9]

See also

• Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings, another listed newspaper publishing company of Hong Kong
• Media Chinese International, another listed newspaper publishing company of Hong Kong and Malaysia
• Next Digital, another listed newspaper publishing company of Hong Kong
• Sing Tao News Corporation, another listed newspaper publishing company of Hong Kong

References

1. Data in Hong Kong Companies Registry
2. "Group's Profile and History". Oriental Press Group. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
3. "Market Data \ Securities Prices\ Equities ORIENTAL PRESS GROUP LTD. (18)". Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
4. "Chairman's Statement" (PDF). 2002 Annual Report. Hong Kong: Oriental Press Group. 2002.
5. "Operations review" (PDF). 2001-2002 Annual Report (in Chinese (Hong Kong) and English). Hong Kong: Sing Tao Holdings. 9 May 2002. p. 15. Retrieved 5 August 2020.
6. 梁煥敏 (22 September 2016). 《東方新地》《新假期》《新Monday》合併 新傳媒傳裁百人. HK01 (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Retrieved 4 August 2020.
7. 馬惜珍若回港將獲不提證供起訴. Hong Kong Economic Journal (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). 15 April 2014.
8. 【短片】【馬惜珍逝世】《東方》股價曾急升至4年高位. Apple Daily (in Chinese (Hong Kong)). Hong Kong. 18 June 2015. Archived from the original on 21 June 2021. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
9. "Corporate Information - Board of Directors". Oriental Press Group. Retrieved 4 August 2020.

External links

• Official website (in English and Chinese)