{{Short description|Former Chinese newspaper in Singapore}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Lat Pau | logo = Latpaulogo.png | image = Lat Pau (Chinese newspaper).jpg | caption = The ''Lat Pau'', 28 August 1890 | type = | format = | owners = | publisher = Lat Pau Press Ltd | founder = See Ewe Lay | editor = | president = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | founded = December 1881 | ceased_publication = March 1932 | political_position = | language = Chinese | price = | headquarters = | circulation = | ISSN = | website = }} {{Infobox Chinese | s = 叻报 | t = 叻報 | p = Lè Bào | h = liag6 bau5 | j = lek1 bou3 | teo = lag8 bo3 | poj = La̍t Pò | w = Lê{{sup|4}} Pao{{sup|4}} }}
'''''Lat Pau''''' ({{lang-zh|c=叻報|poj=La̍t Pò|w=Lê{{sup|4}} Pao{{sup|4}}|first=poj}}) was one of the earliest Chinese-language newspapers published in Singapore under the Straits Settlements. It was first published in December 1881 by See Ewe Lay ({{lang-zh|c=薛有禮|poj=Sih Ū-lé}}) under '''Lat Pau Press Ltd''' ({{lang-zh|c=叻報有限公司}}). It was published for 52 years, ending in March 1932. It was Singapore's longest-running local-run Chinese newspaper before World War II.<ref>Lo-Fen I, [http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/acad/epub/j54/j542hs-4.htm Smoking and Patriotism: A Study of the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company’s Advertisements on Lat Pau During the May Fourth Movement Period A Discourse on the Gothic Style in Liao Zhai Zhi Yi (Strange Chinese Stories)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140221064517/http://www.ntnu.edu.tw/acad/epub/j54/j542hs-4.htm|date=21 February 2014}}, Journal of National Taiwan Normal University, Volume 54, No.2 (Linguistics & Literature).</ref><ref>張麗萍, [http://www.fgu.edu.tw/~wclrc/drafts/Singapore/zhang-li/zhang-li-01.htm 叻報復刊的《荒島》], Fo Guang University</ref><ref>[http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lebao/index.htm Lat Pau] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131006075953/http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/lebao/index.htm |date=6 October 2013 }}, National University of Singapore Library</ref>
''Lat Pau'' initially was published in Classical Chinese. In 1925 the newspaper started publishing in Vernacular Chinese. The newspaper's first editor was Yeh Chi Yun.<ref>{{cite news |last= Tan|first= Ban Huat|date= 16 September 1977|title= Chinese newspaper pioneer in Southeast Asia -Mr. Yeh Chi-yun|url= https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19770916-1.2.60.2|work= The Straits Times|location= Singapore|access-date= 17 July 2022}}</ref>
<gallery> File:Lat Pau, 16 January 1925.jpg|The ''Lat Pau'', 6 January 1925, after the switch to Vernacular Chinese. </gallery>
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==External links== * [https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_33_2005-01-11.html Infopedia]
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