The Sun.Star website at www.sunstar.com.ph is Internet home to the only network of local newspapers in the Philippines.

Uploaded on May 10, 2000, the Sun.Star website pools together news and other information from Sun.Star newspapers and other publications in 12 major cities around the country.The Sun.Star network covers all key areas of the Philippines.

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Tapping its wealth of content from the different Sun.Star newspapers, and in recognition of the demand for localized information in the light of growing interconnectivity, the Sun.Star website is fast becoming a major source of Philippine community news.

The Sun.Star Network Exchange (Sunnex), a department of the Sun.Star Publishing Inc., runs the Sun.Star website.

Sun.Star Network Exchange
3rd Floor, Sun.Star Building
P. del Rosario corner Don Pedro Cui Sts.
Cebu City 6000, Philippines

Phone: (63-32) 254-6100 / 253-3293
Fax: (63-32) 254-9219
Mobile: 0920-6179096 / 0927-4176431
e-mail: sunnex@sunstar.com.ph, sunnex1@sunstar.com.ph

SITE DETAILS

C O N T E N T

Network Home Page:

Network Headline - Top story of the day of the Sun.Star network of community newspapers in the Philippines

Network Stories - Other top or pooled stories of the day of the Sun.Star network of community newspapers in the Philippines

Country News - Listing of top story of the day of each of the members of the Sun.Star network of community newspapers in the Philippines

Features:

Search Engine -- Allows visitors to search the site by location or by relevance to the keyword.

Past Issues -- Provides link to past issues of the network page and affiliate homepages.

Sun.Star Store -- The store has a provision for online payment. The service is used, for now, to sell the Cebu yearbook.

Sun.Star Speak Out -- A venue for readers to comment on articles posted at the site or on other relevant issues. Visitors may send their comments to the website through e-mail or by snail mail to any of the Sun.Star papers and these will be posted at the Speak Out page.

Sun.Star Online Forum -- The service is in keeping with Sun.Star's commitment to build online communities. The forum gives website visitors the chance to interact with others of a different race, religion or ideology.

Classified Power Ads -- Listing of various products for sale or lease. Divided into five categories: transportation, real estate, machineries, services, and general items.

Links to the following:

Network Profile
About Us
Contact Us
Ad Info
Letter to the Editor
Network Archive
E-mail Newsletter
Sun.Star Online Store
Job Offerings
Sun.Star SMS/WAP
Sun.Star Superbalita
Web Specials

Links to individual home pages of individual Sun.Star newspapers

Affiliate Home Page:

Top story of the day
Top items of the different sections like Sports, Opinion and Business
Links to other sections
Link to the Sun.Star network home page

Newspaper Profile
About Us
Letter to the Editor

Archive
Advertisement

DEMOGRAPHICS

The website enjoys over 40 million hits and 13.2 million page views a month from visitors in and outside the Philippines who wish to get the latest news on their community. These visitors include professionals and company executives from all over the world, overseas Filipino workers who can influence buying patterns of their families left in the Philippines, consumers, students, youths, and others employed in various sectors.

Unique visits to the website reached 2.13 million a month.

Our most requested pages or where visitors spend most of their time are the network homepage (www.sunstar.com.ph), followed by the Sun.Star Cebu, Sun.Star Cebu Superbalita, Sun.Star Davao and the rest of the areas.

Please see table for our website traffic.

The website carries web specials on various issues and community events around the country. Examples are the Arroyo Watch section on President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and her government, and the Citizen Journalist blog.

It has an active discussion board participated in by members from around the world who exchange online commentaries on almost any issue.

In addition, the electronic replica of the Sun.Star Cebu newspaper can be viewed at epaper.sunstar.com.ph.

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