 On 2 May 1971, three senior staff of the newspaper were arrested, accused of "a deliberate campaign to stir up Chinese racial emotions".In 1973, the chairman of the paper was detained and released in 1978.The newspaper merged with "Sin Chew Jit Poh" on 16 March 1983 to form the current Lianhe Zaobao and "Lianhe Wanbao" and has ceased to exist.