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The Pyongyang Times (DPR Korea) (29 March 2014)
All eight pages of the original issue for this date. If we had many lines here, you could read between them. Grade: 1
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Ethiopia (B)
We are quite weak in deciphering Amharic, and this old (mid-1970s?) newspaper may not be complete because we can’t read the page numbers either. But it’s two full-size newspaper folded sheets, very heavily aged. Grade: 5
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Where – Your free guide to Thailand (26 August 1977)
A 12-page, aging newspaper for tourists, looking absolutely quaint in view of what Bangkok became. Grade: 2
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Where – Your free guide to Thailand (11-17 May 1979)
In this aging issue, 16 pages of advice about Bangkok and the rest of the country. Grade: 2
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Macau Travel Talk (January 1978)
Series 2, No. 1, intended as a monthly newspaper for the travel industry, it somehow became available to casual visitors as well. All through this website we’ve emphasized how Macau has evolved since becoming China’s second Special Administrative Region in 1999, and it’s incidental sources like this that just drive the point home. Grade: 2
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Macau Travel Talk (March 1983)
See also our entry 50000164. With Series 2, No. 80 of this trade publication, we’ve moved beyond the absolutely rustic days and into the period where real modernisation was just beginning. Personally we miss the old Portuguese provision shops with their ample supplies of Port wine and olives and things like that. Grade: 1
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L’Eveil de Pointe-Noire (Republic of Congo)
We are not often defeated in how to describe anything, but this comes close. Google will clarify for you, but for now this must do: a duplicated newsletter from September 1962, in French, and mailed — stamped and postmarked but no obvious address — with news primarily from around Francophone Africa. Highly aged but intact, and we’ll now repeat: check Google but check the dates as well. Grade: 2
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Sunday Morning Post (Hong Kong) (22 August 2010)
Original pages 1-2 and 13-14 of the Sunday edition of the South China Morning Post. The answer to their question was: apparently, yes. Grade: 3
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The Standard, and Headline Daily (1 December 2022) (Hong Kong)
There are two complete newspapers from the same day here: The Standard (English) and Headline Daily (Chinese), both published by Sing Tao, a leading Chinese-language media company. We had planned to offer a set like this from any random day, and it just happened that this was the day to report the death of former PR China President Jiang Zemin the day before. We are pricing these relatively cheaply just in case you want to see what Hong Kong newspapers look like these days. If you buy, we will fold them in half, stick them in an envelope, and mail them like that. Grades: 1
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South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (2 July 2003)
July 1st had been the traditional day for Hong Kong people to take their grievances to the streets, especially when the weather was good. This 2003 demonstration covered quite a variety of complaints but also came long before what was to happen 11 years later, then again in 2019+. Pages A1-12 from the full newspaper. Grade: 2
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South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (27 December 2004)
Reporting the terrible earthquake, tsunami, and subsequent destruction in Southeast Asia near Christmas in 2004. Pages A1-18 of this issue. Grade: 1
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South China Morning Post (Hong Kong) (31 December 2004)
Having these numbers rise so rapidly were bad enough; that it was all being reported on New Year’s Eve made it worse. Pages A1-18 of that issue. Grade: 1
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Sunday Morning Post (Hong Kong) (18 December 2005)
As raucous and rowdy as these anti-World Trade Organization protests were in 2005, they were nothing compared with what happened in 2019-2020. Here are pages 1-21 of that Sunday’s edition of the South China Morning Post. Grade: 1
