High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Straits Times is an English-language daily broadsheet newspaper based in Singapore, currently owned by the Singapore Press Holdings (SPH). It is the country's highest-selling paper, with a daily circulation of 388,500 in August 2006. As of 2008, it has an estimated readership of 1.23 million. The Straits Times was established on July 15, 1845, in the early days of British colonial rule, and may be considered the successor to various other newspapers during the time such as the Singapore Chronicle. It was founded by an Armenian, Catchick Moses. After Singapore became independent from Malaysia in 1965, the paper became more focused on the island, leading to the creation of the New Straits Times for Malaysian readers.