Far Eastern Economic Review
| Far Eastern Economic Review
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|---|---|
| language | English |
| publishing company | News Corporation |
| First edition | 1946 |
| attitude | 4th December 2009 |
| Frequency of publication | per month |
| ISSN |
0014-7591 |
| ZDB | 280734-8 |
Far Eastern Economic Review (abbreviated FEER ) was an English-language, originally weekly, and finally a monthly magazine for economics and politics, which was published in Hong Kong . After 63 years, the last issue appeared on December 4, 2009.
history
The magazine was founded in 1946 by the Viennese Jew Eric Halpern, who originally fled to Shanghai and then to Hong Kong during the Chinese Civil War, with capital from Jardine Matheson Holdings and the Hong Kong Bank ; in 1973 the South China Morning Post became the main owner. Dow Jones , co-owner since 1973, took over the majority in 1986 together with Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, until News Corp in 2007 took over Dow Jones and thus sole control.
After Halpern's withdrawal in 1958, Dick Wilson, as the new publisher and editor-in-chief, extended the reporting and distribution area beyond Hong Kong and China to Japan, the Philippines, India and Australia. Wilson was followed by Derek Davies from Welsh from 1964 to 1989. Davies had previously been a British secret agent in Vietnam and made FEER known as a journalist primarily through his Travelers' Tales columns. He increased the circulation to around 90,000 worldwide.
Davies' successor Philipp Bowring was forced to resign by Dow Jones in 1992, and in 2001 the FEER editorial team was merged with that of the Asian Wall Street Journal for cost reasons . Gordon Crovitz followed Bowring and Hugo Restall followed Crovitz in 2004. Since 2004, FEER has only been published monthly (on the first Friday of each month), most recently (2009) only ten times a year (double issues January / February and July / August).
censorship
Issues of the Far Eastern Economic Review were repeatedly banned in some East and Southeast Asian countries or the work of their correspondents working in 15 countries was hindered. B. from various Thai and Pakistani military governments, Chinese cultural revolutionaries, the Indonesian Suharto regime, Bangladesh, Malaysia and especially from Singapore. In Bangladesh, FEER was defamed as "pro-Islamist", in Singapore as "pro-communist". In Singapore, the family of long-time prime minister Lee Kuan Yew obtained a general sales ban after a legal dispute (2006–2008). In fact, FEER was closer to Malaysia's longtime Prime Minister Mahathir bin Mohamad , Chinese reform communists, John K. Fairbank , Michael Kadoorie (whose ancestors once helped fund Halpern), Benigno Aquino junior and liberal opposition members.
Distribution area
In the 1990s the reporting area covered the following countries (classification of the regions according to FEER All Asia Guide 1991):
| South asia | South East Asia | Northeast Asia |
|---|---|---|
| Bangladesh | Brunei | China |
| Bhutan | Indonesia | Hong Kong |
| Burma (Myanmar) | Cambodia | Macau |
| India | Laos | Japan |
| Maldives | Malaysia | Korea (North and South) |
| Nepal | Papua New Guinea | Mongolia |
| Pakistan | Philippines | Siberia, Central Asia and the Russian Far East |
| Sri Lanka | Singapore | Taiwan |
| Thailand | ||
| Vietnam |
Occasionally there were reports on Afghanistan and the Central Asian ex-Soviet republics, as well as Australia and New Zealand. FEER was also sold in Bahrain, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, Canada, Kuwait, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Sweden and the USA. (In Germany it cost 9 DM at the turn of the millennium, in Austria 75 Schilling.)
literature
- David Plott, Michael Vatikiotis: The Life and Times of the Far Eastern Economic Review , in: Cherian George (Ed.): Free markets, free media? Page 137-158 . Singapore 2008