NORTH American representatives of CIM chairman P.H. Yu have announced that his recently acquired Ming Pao newspaper chain will be the flagship of a multi-million dollar television, radio and newspaper venture into the United States from Canada.
Ming Pao has just begun circulating Canada's newest Chinese-language newspaper, with 70 full-time and more than 20 part-time employees producing 20,000 copies a day in Toronto.
Another 40 full-time employees are set to start printing 10,000 copies a day in Vancouver by August.
Once Canadian operations are up and running, Ming Pao said it would start to expand into the US by opening offices in New York and San Francisco.
''The primary objective is to open up in various North American cities, with New York and San Francisco as our next targets,'' Ming Pao's Canadian president Richard Yao said.
''For New York, we'll have to wait until maybe next summer. We're going to do our feasibility study first, and then move into the area. San Francisco will be further down the road.