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Historical Worldwide Newspapers Online: Asia
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Access to Mideast and Islamic Resources (AMIR)
An alphabetical list of newspapers and other periodicals in Middle East and Islamic Studies
Afghanistan
Afghanistan Digital Library
This collection includes some newspapers.
Bangladesh
Bengali Newspapers and Periodicals
Includes newspapers and periodicals in an area that now includes parts of India, Bangladesh, and other parts of South Asia
Bhutan
Bhutanese 2012-
Burma
Guardian 1973
China
0Xin Qian ri bao 1950-1951, 1953-1956
Acht Uhr Abendblatt (Shanghai) 1939-1941
Jewish newspaper published in Shanghai
Beijing wan bao 1959, 1961-1963
Canton Press 1835-1844
Changsha ri bao 1956-1958
Da gong bao 1946
Deutsch-chinesische Nachrichten 1930-1939
Deutsche Zeitung in Nordchina 1939-1941
Fushun ri bao 1956-1957
Hangzhou ri bao 1956-1961
Jie fang ri bao 1949-1950
Lao dong ri bao 1958
Liao xi ri bao 1954
Min xi ri bao 1958
Min zhong ri bao 1958
Ningxia ri bao 1954
North-China daily news 1881, 1929, 1936
North-China herald and Supreme Court & consular gazette 1906-1908
Pan shun bao 1959
Peking Gazette 1873, 1877
English and Chinese language newspaper
Ren min ri bao 1950
S. Z. am Mittag der Shanghai Post 1939-1940
Jewish newspaper
Shanghaier Morgenpost 1941
Jewish newspaper
Shanghai Jewish Chronicle 1939-1945
Shi bao + Eastern times 1912-1927
Su Bao 1903
Su nan ri bao 1952
Tong chuan bao 1958
Tongchuan ri bao 1958
Wen hui bao 1964-1967
Xiang Bao (suppl. 1965?)
Xikang ri bao 1954
Xinhua ribao 1942
Xin wen bao 1947
Yang cheng wan bao 1965
Zhong yang ri bao = Central daily news 1945
Hong Kong
China mai 1845-1860
Friend of China, and Hongkong gazette 1842-1844
Hong Kong daily press 1925-1927
Hongkong telegraph 1883, 1888
Hong Kong times, daily advertiser and shipping gazette 1874-1876
Ming Bao 1892
South China morning post 1922, 1930-1931
South China morning post 1972
Xiang Bao vol.1-4
India
Amrita Bazar patrikā 1939
Bande Mataram: Monthly Organ of Indian Independence 1913-1914
Although this is about Indian independence, it was published in Geneva, Switzerland.
Behar Herald 1948-1952
Bengali Newspapers and Periodicals
Includes newspapers and periodicals in an area that now includes parts of India, Bangladesh, and other parts of South Asia.
Bombay chronicle 1920-1921, 1942
Bombay times and journal of commerce 1857-1858
Fibis: Newspapers and Journals Online 1799-1900
Hindu, illustrated Sunday edition 1936
Hindu 1936
HIndu 2000-
This site provides an archive of web content beginning 2009 and print content beginning 2000
Hindustan Times 1931-1932, 1963
Indian Express 1933-1970, 1986-1994
Kayasare Hinda 1919-1920
Khālasā samācāra 1917, 1919-1920
Native opinion = Nētivū ōpiniyanū 1867-1874
People's age 1945-1947
Organ of the Communist Party of India
Poona observer 1876-1878
Searchlight 1918-1920
Statesman 1975, 1978
Sunday Indian Express 1949-1950 (Madras)
Sunday Mid-Day 2002 (Mumbai)
Sunday Standard 1954, 1956-1957, 1960, 1964-1970, 1987-1988 (Madras)
This also includes issues of the Indian Express spread throughout the time period. Not all issues in this file were published on Sunday.
Tribune [Lahore] 1919-1920, 1936-1937, 1961
Indonesia
Angkatan bersendjata 1965-1966
Berita yudha 1965
Historische Kranten
This database includes some Dutch language newspapers from Indonesia.
Pembrita Betawi 1911
Retnodhoemilah 1901, 1905
Iran
Iṭṭilāʻāt 1948-1949, 1974-1981
Kavah 1920
Kayhan international 1967, 1971, 1975-1976
Kayhān 1952-1953, 1978-1980
Iraq
al-Irāq 2011-2013
Iraq Times 1957
Israel
ha-Arets = Palestine News 1935
Historical Jewish Press 1783-2014
Collection of Jewish newspapers published in various countries, languages, and time periods.
Japan
Asahi shinbun 1941, 1945
Chugai Shinbun v. 1-41
Japan advertiser 1924, 1933
Japan Gazette 1880-1881
"Published on departure of each English and American mail steamer." English language newspaper
Japan times & mail 1923-1924
Japan times 1956
Japan Weekly Mail 1870, 1874-1875, 1877-1878
Japan Weekly Mail 1871-1873, 1875-1880, 1882, 1894-1900, 1902-1908
Japan Weekly Mail 1875-1884
Jiyu no Tomoshibi vol. 1-65, 152-299, 378-458
Kibi Dango 1878-1883
Kokumin shinbun 1932
Naigai Shinbun no. 1-15
Nippon times 1956
Korea
Hwangsong Sinmun v.1-21
Korean Periodicals 1905-
Korea times 1956-1960
Nodong sinmun 1958, 1964-1965
Taehan Maeil Sinbo v.1
Laos
Khōsanā sān 1965
Lāo hūam samphan 1958-1962
Nǣo hōm potpō̜i sāt Lāo 1983-1990
Pitūphum = the Pitouphoum daily news 1971
Lebanon
Daily Star 1967
Thamarāt al-funūn 1897-1905
Malaya
NewspaperSG 1831-2009
Malaysia
New Straits Times 1972-1976, 1980-2006
New Sunday Times 1979, 1981, 1983, 1985-1998, 2000-2002, 2005-2006
Pinang gazette and Straits chronicle 1957-1959
Pakistan
Camanistān 1987
Dawn 1949
Pakistan Times 1968-1969, 1983
Tribune 1919-1920, 1936-1937, 1961
Philippines
American 1900
Ang Bayan 1945-1946
Ang kapatid n︢︣g bayan 1899-1904
Ang suga 1903, 1906-1911
Columnas volantes 1899
Diario de Manila 1898
El democrata: organo del Partido democrata 1920
El filipino libre 1899-1900
El grito del pueblo 1899-1900
El heraldo de la revolución 1898-1899
Freedom 1899
Insular daily press 1899
La democracia: diario del Partido filipino federal 1899, 1901
La independencia 1898-1899
La república filipina 1898-1899
Leyte-Samar free Philippines 1944
"Issued by the P.W.B. [Psychological Warfare Branch], G.H.Q., O.W.I. [Office of War Information] of the United States"
Libang︢︣an nang lahat 1899
Manila American 1901
Manila Freedom 1900, 1903
Manila Outpost 1898-1899
Manila Standard 1984, 1987-2003
Manila Times 2005-2008
New American 1901
Pagkakaisa 1929
Philippine Daily Inquirer 2000-2007
Sakdal 1933
Sunday Sun 19903-1905
Saudi Arabia
al-Riyāḍ 1980
Singapore
Lat Pau 1887-1932
National University of Singapore: Enewspapers
Only those newspapers labeled "Open Access" are freely available on the Internet.
NewspaperSG 1831-2009
Sin Kuo Min 1919-1933
South Korea
Chosun Libo 1920-present
Kyungsung Ilbo 1907-1945
Naver Digital News Archive 1920-1999
Thailand
Nation 1996-1998, 2006
English language newspaper
Although this file is titled The Nation, it also includes issues of two Canadian newspapers: The Union (Ottawa) 1859-1860 and The Patriot (Toronto) 1834-1837, 1877-1881.
Siam Free Press, 1893, 1898
Thai Newspaper Collection during the World War II 1932-1941
Tibet
Yul phyogs so so'i gsar 'gyur me lon' (Tibet Mirror) 1927-1963
Tibetan language newspaper
Turkey
Ereğli 1951-1952
Milliyet 1950-2004
Periodicals of Hakki Taruk Us Collection
Türkische Post 1926-1943
Vietnam
Hà thanh ngọ-báo 1927-1930
L'Annam nouveau 1932, 1937, 1940-1941
La France d'Asie 1901-1902
Saigon post 1963-1965
Trung-lập-báo 1924, 1929-1933
Đàn bà mới 1936
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