Daily News (Thailand)

Daily News
Thai: อ่านความจริง อ่านเดลินิวส์
(transl. Read the truth, read Daily News)
TypeDaily newspaper
FormatBroadsheet
Founded24 June 1950 as Daily Mail Monday
(1964-03-28) 28 March 1964 (age 60) as Naewna Hang Yuk Daily News [a]
LanguageThai
Ceased publication20 October 1958 as Daily Mail Monday
HeadquartersLak Si, Bangkok, Thailand
Circulation850,000
Websitedailynews.co.th

Daily News (Thai: เดลินิวส์,pronounced [dēː.lī.nīw(s)]) is a Thai-language daily newspaper published in Bangkok and distributed nationwide. It is the second-best selling newspaper in Thailand. It has a circulation in excess of 850,000 copies daily.[2]

History

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Daily News was founded by Saeng Hetrakul [th] when he purchased the defunct Krung Thep Daily Mail [th] newspaper (Thai edition of the Bangkok Daily Mail) which has ceased publication in 1932 and relaunched it as Daily Mail Monday (Thai: เดลิเมล์วันจันทร์) it was first published weekly and then as a daily. Daily Mail Monday was forced to close down in 1958.

It was refounded as Naewna Hang Yuk Daily News (Thai: แนวหน้าแห่งยุคเดลินิวส์) in 1964 and later shortened it name to just Daily News in 1979.

Footnotes

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  1. ^ The newspaper considers this date as their date of establishment.[1] As it was the date that the paper was refound after bring forced to close down by the order of Field Marshal Sarit Thanarat

References

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  1. ^ "ยิ่งใหญ่! 'เดลินิวส์' ครบรอบ 58 ปี ก้าวสู่ปีที่ 59 อย่างมั่นคง" [Grandiose! 58th anniversary of Daily News, march forward to 59th stably]. Daily News (in Thai). 28 March 2022. Retrieved 4 January 2023.
  2. ^ Thongtep, Watchiranont; Pratruangkrai, Petchanet (2016-10-19). "Newspapers covering HM's death become collector's items". The Nation. Archived from the original on 2017-01-10. Retrieved 9 January 2017.
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