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† The indicated news outlets are indirectly owned and controlled by the Liaison Office of the Central People's Government. Press freedom in the United States was further secured by the First Amendment to the U.S. Most of the press of the new republic proved fiercely partisan in the political struggles between the Federalists and Jeffersonian Republicans. In the first two decades of the 17th century, more or less regular papers printed from movable type appeared in Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Rudimentary newspapers appeared in many European countries in the 17th century, and broadsheets with social news were published in Japan in the Tokugawa period (1603–1867). Founded in 1939 Sing Pao is the oldest Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong. The newspaper provides local, national, and international news, as well as coverage of sports, business, health, education, entertainment, and more. Without this extensive support, many of our newspapers, for example, would either c...