History of The Straits Times

- Founder & proprietor: Catchick Moses, An Armenian

- Founding Editor: Robert Carr Woods

- First issue: 15 Jul 1845 published from No. 7

Commercial Square (now Raffles Place) as The Straits

Times And Singapore Journal Of Commerce.

- Woods bought over the Paper and sold it to Wynter &

sold it to Wynter & Company in 1860.

- Wynter sold the Paper to T.A.C. Hodgson on 24 Aug

1862.

- John Cameron became its editor and eventually

bought over the Paper.

- In 1895, the Paper moved into bigger rented premises at

Finlayson Green.

- In March 1900, the Paper was sold at an auction for

85,000. It was converted into a private limited company

capitalised at 100,000.

- In 1906, the Paper moved to Cecil Street.

- The first issue of the Sunday Times came out on 20 Dec

1931.

- Singapore fell to Japanese invaders on 15 Feb 1942 and

the Straits Times stopped publication.

- The first issue of post-war Straits Times came out on

7 Sep 1945.

- On 11 Mar 1950, the Straits Times Press Ltd became a public company quoted on the stock exchange.

- Its first annual general meeting was held in Dec 1950.

- Its printing presses were moved into Times House in

1958.

- Its daily financial newspaper first came out on 1 Oct 1976

- Singapore Press Holdings was incorporated on 4 Aug

1984. It is a merger of the Singapore News &

Publications Ltd* (SNPL), the Straits Times Press and

Times Publishing Bhd.

*merger of Nanyang Siang Pau Singapore Ltd & Sin

Chew Jit Poh (S) Ltd

- Its present corporate logo was adopted in March 1987

- Celebrated its 150th anniversary in 1995.