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Oriental Media Group

Logo: Oriental Press Group, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons3

Hong Kong publishing company

Oriental Media Group Limited is the publishing company of Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily News, as well as now defunct The Sun and Eastern Express. Oriental Media Group was the founding company of the magazines East Week, East Touch and Oriental Sunday, but the magazines were sold in the 2000s. Oriental Media Group, through subsidiary, operates news website on.cc.2 Its shares trade on Hong Kong Stock Exchange under the symbol 18.1 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0

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Last updated Oct 21, 2026.

Overview

Jan 14, 1969Founded1

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Photo: Chong Fat, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons5

Oriental Media Group Limited is the publishing company of Hong Kong newspaper Oriental Daily News, as well as now defunct The Sun and Eastern Express. Oriental Media Group was the founding company of the magazines East Week, East Touch and Oriental Sunday, but the magazines were sold in the 2000s. Oriental Media Group, through subsidiary, operates news website on.cc. The shares of Oriental Media Group is traded in the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong. It was formerly called Oriental Press Group Limited and Oriental Enterprise Holdings Limited.2

The story

Oriental Press Group Limited is incorporated on 14 January 1969 and start to publish Oriental Daily News on 22 January of the same year.

The company is listed on the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong Limited since 18 August 1987.

From Wikipedia’s article on Oriental Press Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Products and brands

Oriental Daily News is one of the major newspaper of Hong Kong. Its archrival is Apple Daily and other Chinese/Cantonese language newspapers of Hong Kong.

On top of its flagship newspaper Oriental Daily News, the company also founded The Sun (太陽報) in 1999 and Eastern Express. The former was published in Traditional Chinese characters while the latter was an English newspaper. Nevertheless, they were folded.

The company also founded a series of magazines that named after 東 (transliterated as East or Oriental): East Week (東周刊), Oriental Sunday (東方新地) and East Touch (東Touch). All of them were sold from 2001 to 2002 to Emperor Group or Sing Tao Holdings. Some of them are still published by other companies.

The company launches the news website on.cc (at that time use the url orisun.com) in 2000. It offers the online version of Oriental Daily News under the sub domain orientaldaily.on.cc, as well as streaming video news occasionally.

From Wikipedia’s article on Oriental Press Group, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.4

Timeline

  1. Aug 18, 1987Went public Listed on Hong Kong Stock Exchange1
  2. Jan 14, 1969Founded Founded1

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