The daily clinched the award for its ability to connect with its local community - through the launch of a school pocket money fund for poor children - as well as provide detailed foreign news coverage and analysis, said the judges.
HEADLINES: Straits Times wins Panpa's top newspaper prize
The Pacific Area Newspaper Publishers' Association, a Sydney-based group of more than 300 newspaper publishing companies, has named Singapore's English-language daily, The Straits Times, as its Newspaper of the Year.