马来西亚的华文报纸近来陷入了难以为继的困境,两家报纸已先后关门、停刊。造成这一局面的直接原因是因不景气带来的发行数下降和拉不到广告,而根本原因则是马来西亚近年来在加强推广马来语,从而使能阅读华文报纸的华裔居民日益减少。同样的现象也出现在东南亚其他国家。从上个世纪以来一直在那里维系着由中国迁徙过去的华人的文化的这些报纸,目前正面临着生死存亡的严峻考验。在首都吉隆坡发行的《建国日报》于去年12月1日发行了最后一期报纸后告别读者。去年夏天,由该报所有人任理事长的信用合作组因涉嫌非法敛资,被马政府下令停止营业,这使该报的资金周转很快发生 Recently, Chinese-language newspapers in Malaysia have plunged into unsustainable difficulties. The two newspapers have successively closed their doors and stopped printing. The direct cause of this situation is the decline in circulation and the lack of advertising due to the recession. The fundamental reason is that in recent years Malaysia has stepped up the promotion of Malay and reduced the number of Chinese-speaking residents who read Chinese-language newspapers. The same phenomenon also appears in other Southeast Asian countries. These newspapers, which have been maintaining the Chinese culture that has been relocated by China since the last century, are now facing a severe test of life and death. In the capital, Kuala Lumpur, the “Jianguo Daily” said goodbye to the readers after the last issue of newspapers was published on December 1 last year. Last summer, the Credit Cooperatives, acting as chairman of the newspaper’s owner, ordered the closure of the operation on suspicion of illegal fund-raising and the rapid turnaround of the newspaper’s capital flow