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The last copy of theSun e-paper was dated May 8, as seen on the Internet today.

The lean stuff must have worked close to death to bring out The Edge Financial Daily, which hits the streets today. It also means business news in theSun has shrunk to just two pages per day.

Malaysian Reserve will start selling May 28. Reuters's Jalil Hamid calls that tough battle. Quote:

The Edge (Financial Daily) will have an initial print run of only 15,000 copies against the Reserve's 20,000. The Star sells about 310,000 copies a day and the NST about 140,000, according to audited figures for the year to June 2006.

Nexnews' existing standard-bearer, its business weekly The Edge, sold only 22,000 copies over the same period.

"We believe there is a market for a standalone financial daily but maybe not for two," Nexnews managing director and Editor-in-Chief Ho Kay Tat, who oversees theSun and The Edge, told Reuters on May 21.