Berita Harian is a major Malay language

Malay language

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 newspaper

Newspaper

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 in Malaysia. Its Sunday Edition is called Berita Minggu. It was founded on 31 August 1957, which also marks the date of Malaya's independence

Hari Merdeka

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. The newspaper was printed in broadsheet format until 31 December 2007, when the newspaper decided to be printed in tabloid starting 1 January 2008.
Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) from 1 July 2004 to 30 June 2005 put its circulation at 231,163 while its sister newspaper, Berita Minggu has a circulation of 358,054.

In 2009, Berita Harian fell from a circulation of 203,704 in 2006 to 154,868 – a fall of 24 per cent.