The Chinese Commercial News (, lit. "Philippine Commercial News"), colloquially called the Commercial News or Siong Po ( in Hokkien), is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Chinese language. Although it is not the Philippines' first Chinese-language newspaper,[2] it is the Philippines' oldest existing Chinese-language newspaper, and the country's third-oldest existing newspaper overall.[3] The newspaper is a partner of China News Service of the United Front Work Department.[4]
History
1919 Establishment
The Chinese Commercial News was founded in October 1919 as the Huachiao Commercial News, a monthly newsletter for the Manila Chinese Chamber of Commerce, then headed by