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Lianhe Wanbao
联合晚报
Type	Daily newspaper
Format	Broadsheet
Owner	Singapore Press Holdings
Founded	16 March 1983
Language	Chinese
Headquarters	Singapore

This article is on the daily newspaper based in Singapore. It is not to be confused with the United Evening News published by the United Daily News Group based in Taiwan, also called 聯合晚報 in Chinese.

Lianhe Wanbao (simplified Chinese: 联合晚报; pinyin: Liánhé Wǎn bào; literally United Evening Paper) is a Singapore Chinese afternoon newspaper published daily by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). It was started on 16 March 1983 after the merger between the Nanyang Siang Pau (Singapore) and the Sin Chew Jit Poh (Singapore).

Although it is named Lianhe Wanbao and is also owned by SPH, the paper bears little resemblance with its more serious broadsheet counterpart Lianhe Zaobao. It focuses mainly on local and entertainment news, with minimal international coverage. As such it is in competition with another SPH paper, Shin Min Daily News. It is not to be mistaken for an evening edition of Lianhe Zaobao. Amongst Singapore readers, Lianhe Wanbao is often regarded more of a tabloid published in broadsheet form, and the veracity of some reports (mostly reproduced from tabloids or gossip magazines from Hong Kong or Taiwan) is sometimes questioned.

Since October 2008, Lianhe Wanbao has undergone a restructuring and reformatting. The paper now adopts more serious reporting than Shin Min Daily, and tries to attract younger readers through the use of colorful, uncluttered formatting.

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