Berliner (format) - Asian Newspapers

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The business daily Mint, a collaboration with the Indian media house Hindustan Times Media Limited (HTML) and The Wall Street Journal, is the latest to be launched in the Berliner format on 1 February 2007. In Nepal, the Nepali Times is the latest and the only newspaper using this format.

In Pakistan, the English daily Pakistan Today is the only newspaper in any language to be published in the Berliner format.

Also, the Israeli newspaper Haaretz is published in this format (18 February 2007).

Though very rarely used in the Metropolitan Manila, the Berliner is the most popular format in the Philippines. In the Ilocandia, some of the well-known names are the Zigzag Weekly, the Northern Dispatch — commonly called as Nordis — and the Northern Philippine Times.

In the Visayas, the Panay News (Visayas’ most widely circulated newspaper) also uses this format.

Though not published for commercial purposes, the official publication of the Caritas Manila uses a slightly narrower Berliner format.

In March 2009, South Korea's JoongAng Ilbo adopted the Berliner format, becoming the first Korean newspaper to do so.

Also in the same month, Turkey's Gazete Habertürk or Zaman adopted a variation of this format as 350 by 500 mm (13.78 by 19.69 in) and became the first Turkish newspaper to do so. The format is called as Ciner Format because it is unique.

On 1 June 2012, the UAE's leading English language newspapaper, Gulf News, adopted the Berliner format.