Singapore, Dec. 6 -- A brand new tablet with your newspaper loaded onto it daily for you to enjoy at your leisure.

That is what readers of The Straits Times (ST) will get, at a very special price this Christmas.

On Dec 18, Singapore Press Holdings (SPH) is launching a new e-paper subscription plan - The Straits Times News Tablet - which comes with an app pre-installed on a Samsung tablet.

For just $24.90 per month for two years, readers will get a subscription to the e-paper as well as the Samsung Tab A 10.1-inch Wi-Fi tablet, which normally retails at $398.

Besides containing the e-newspaper of the daily broadsheet, it functions as a normal tablet that can be used to download and access other apps and surf the Internet.

Under the...