| 聯合日報 United Daily News | |
| Type: | Daily newspaper |
| Format: | Broadsheet |
| Owners: | United Daily Press, Inc. |
| Foundation: | 1973 |
| Chiefeditor: | Sy Yinchow (1973–2014) |
| Language: | Chinese |
| Headquarters: | Binondo, Manila, Philippines |
| Circulation: | 32,000 (2008)[1] |
| Website: | http://www.unitednews.net.ph |
The United Daily News is a daily broadsheet newspaper in the Philippines written in the Chinese language. As of 2008, the newspaper had a circulation of 32,000, making it the Philippines' second-largest Chinese-language newspaper in terms of circulation, after the World News.[2]
The newspaper, the only Chinese-language newspaper that was authorized to publish during the martial law era,[3] was founded in 1973 by Cheng Kim Tiao,[4] merging two pre-existing Chinese-language newspapers: the Kong Li Po (公理報), founded in 1911, and the Great China Press (大中華日報), established after World War II.[5] Both newspapers were known to be sympathetic to the Kuomintang, with the Kong Li Po even being founded by Wu Ching-ming, Sun Yat-sen's organizer in the Philippines.[6] Its founding editor-in-chief, Sy Yinchow,[7] was the world's longest-serving editor-in-chief, having served in that position at a number of publications since 1945.[8] Known as the "dean of Chinese media practitioners", Sy wrote daily for the newspaper until his death in 2014.[9]
In addition to its main Chinese-language edition, the United Daily News also contained an English-language section, which later became its own newspaper called the United News.