The Apple Daily is a tabloid-style newspaper printed in Taiwan

Taiwan

Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...

 and owned by Hong Kong-based Next Media

Next Media

Next Media Limited , founded by serial entrepreneur Jimmy Lai, has more than 3,600 employees and is the largest-listed media company in Hong Kong....

. Next Media is based in Hong Kong and also prints the Apple Daily (Hong Kong)

Apple Daily

Apple Daily is a Hong-Kong-based tabloid-style newspaper founded in 1995 by Jimmy Lai Chee Ying and is published by its company, Next Media. A sister publication carrying the same name is published in Taiwan, Republic of China under a joint venture between Next Media and other Taiwanese companies...

. The publication is well known internationally for its animated news stories on pop culture outside Taiwan.

History

Apple Daily (Taiwan) first published on 2 May 2003. It is the first newspaper in Taiwan publishes 365 days a year, and it is the only newspaper in Taiwan subject to the circulation audit from Audit Bureau of Circulations (ROC) .