“Our reader numbers have been on the up for the last two years. These awards from our esteemed industry colleagues and experts in the field, coupled with our increasing audience, reflect the fact we are producing high-quality journalism that people want to read,” said the Post’s Online Editor, Wang Feng.

“We have a great team of journalists and digital experts and these awards belong to them all.”

The awards were presented at the Digital Media Asia Conference in Singapore, where representatives of the region’s biggest news providers have been discussing the future of news and advertising in the digital age.

Many of the talks have touched on the surge in smartphone sales in recent years, allowing their owners to consume news products while on the go.

This has provided media organisations with fresh challenges, from delivering high-impact news to the small screens offered by mobile phones, to ensuring that readers remain loyal to their favoured news brands in the face of a deluge of information, often shared on social media.