The Straits Times is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust. Established on 15 July 1845, it is the most-widely circulated newspaper in the country and has a significant regional audience. The newspaper is published in the broadsheet format and online, the latter of which was launched in 1994. It is regarded as the newspaper of record for Singapore.
The Straits Times front page on 13 December 2019
The Straits Times and Singapore Journal of Commerce on 5 June 1858.
Page 7 in The Straits Times on 12 December 1907 entitled "Stone-Laying Ceremony: New Methodist Episcopal Church for Singapore", about the construction of Wesley Methodist Church at Fort Canning Hill.
Page 11 in The Straits Times on 28 February 1935. The "Plans for a new Supreme Court" report would lead to the construction of the contemporary Old Supreme Court Building, completed on 3 August 1939. The building was used in its official capacity until 20 June 2005, by which it was converted to a national museum named the National Gallery Singapore.
A newspaper of record is a major national newspaper with large circulation whose editorial and news-gathering functions are considered authoritative and independent; they are thus "newspapers of record by reputation" and include some of the oldest and most widely respected newspapers in the world. The number and trend of "newspapers of record by reputation" is related to the state of press freedom and political freedom in a country.
The New York Times Building in Midtown Manhattan; some meanings of the term originated in reference to The New York Times.
Paris headquarters of Le Figaro, France's centre-right newspaper of record (public record and by reputation)
First edition of Neue Zürcher Zeitung (1780), the world's oldest newspaper of record by reputation
The former headquarters of El Nacional, Venezuela's long-standing newspaper of record, which was seized by the state in 2018 and forced out of newsprint production