What is Harian Metro? It's one of the most famous
newspaper in Malaysia, published in Malay language. It sells around
about 480.000 copies per day during the weekends. Starting from 2003
they created five different regional editions: the "Malacca, the South,
the Central, the East, the North edition). The "Harian Metro Newsletter"
was also the first daily afternoon tabloid in Malaysia ( in Klang
Valley). At this moment, Harian Metro "format" is tabloid. The "Johor
Bahru", the southern version of Harian Metro
was launched in 1992. On 16th May 1994 the "- Edisi Timur" version was
launched. The last "Sarawak and Sabah edition" was launched just few
years ago and has more than 60 pages. Harian Metro Newspaper it's priced
around RM1.50. Datuk Zainul Arifin Mohammed Isa is the NSTP group
managing editor. The New Straits Times Press Berhad owned this newspaper
for a long time. The Harian Metro readers grew up very rapidly going
from about 100.000 readers in '92 up to 4 million (for Metro Ahad
format) and 2 million for the Harian Metro format, in 2009.
