The Sun (now branded as theSun) is Malaysia's first national free daily newspaper in tabloid form. Available from Mondays to Fridays except on public holiday, with a target audience of white-collar workers and urban youth.
It is published by Sun Media Corporation Sdn Bhd, which is part of the Berjaya Media Berhad (formerly known as Nexnews Berhad). theSun was launched on June 1, 1993, which was originally The Sun. It stopped publication on June 30, 1994 for a revamp, and resumed a month later. It became a free newspaper in 2002. Home delivery is available at RM0.30.
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Famous quotes containing the words The Sun and/or sun:
“A healthy soul stands united with the Just and the True, as the magnet arranges itself with the pole, so that he stands to all beholders like a transparent object betwixt them and the sun, and whoso journeys towards the sun, journeys towards that person. He is thus the medium of the highest influence to all who are not on the same level.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to the place where he arose.”
—Bible: Hebrew Ecclesiastes 1:4,5.
Ernest Hemingway’s book title The Sun Also Rises (1926)