Subject: Media

NewspaperSG

An online archive of Singapore and Malayan newspapers in English and Chinese, mainly historical material, from 1984 to the present created by  National Library Board of Singapore. Not all articles are available for reading online.

China Families incl. Historic newspapers published in China available Open Access online

This site allows you to search across 60,000 names of men and women who lived, worked or died in China, between the 1850s and 1940s. The information is drawn from ten different sources, and you can search each one of these individually, but you can also search across all of them. There are many Chinese […]

Renmin ribao – complete archives

This is a trial access to Renmin ribao via a European license, administered by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It gives access to the whole archives of Renmin ribao.   Fully searchable — either in single or combined search; Fully downloadable and printable; Interchangeable between text files and JPG image files; DAILY updated In Chinese.

Renmin ribao 1946 – present

This is access to the Renmin ribao has been negotiated as a European license, administered by Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. It gives access to the whole archives of Renmin ribao up to the latest issues.   Fully searchable — either in single or combined search; Fully downloadable and printable; Interchangeable between text files and JPG image files; […]

Pre-war Singapore Chinese newspapers

This collection of digitized newspapers from National University of Singapore Libraries contains the following titles: Cheng Nam Jit Poh (1913-1920) The aims and emphasis of the paper varied from period to period. Initially, it gave special emphasis on political support to the China Government; then it published more literary works. On the final stage the […]

Times of India (1838-2010)

The Times of India is an Indian English-language daily newspaper, the  third-largest newspaper in India by circulation and largest selling English-language daily in the world  It is the oldest English-language newspaper in India still in circulation with its first edition published in 1838 and the second-oldest Indian newspaper still in circulation. The Times of India issued its first […]

South China Morning Post (1903-2001)

The South China Morning Post with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a  well-known Hong Kong English-language newspaper. The journal was founded by Australian-born revolutionary Tse Tsan-tai and British journalist Alfred Cunningham in 1903. The first edition of the paper was published on 6 November 1903. This archive covers the period until 2000 and it is […]

Korean Film Archive

Korean Film Archive (KOFA) is a non-profit organization that collects, preserves and give access to Korean films and film-related materials. Its main center in Seoul features the Cinematheque KOFA, the Korean Film Museum and a reference library. KOFA also operates an online database of Korean films and an online film streaming service with some 400 […]

Asian newspapers

Via PressReader’s collection you can read a number of Asian newspapers and magazines on the day they are published. In the new version PressReader it is possible to set your own account and customize the outlook of PressReader by choosing specific countries, newspapers and topics. You can also set up e-mail alerts. PressReader user guide […]

Asia in Focus