With the notable exception of "Viet Mercury", a now-defunct, 35,000-circulation weekly Vietnamese-language paper published by Knight Ridder's "San Jose Mercury News", U.S. media companies have generally eschewed the Asian market even though daily papers in Chinese, Korean or Vietnamese are thriving in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles and other cities. The Mandarin-language "World Journal", which distributes from San Francisco to Toronto and states a circulation (unaudited) of 350,000. "World Journal"; its biggest competitor, "Sing Tao" (181,000 circulation unaudited); and "Korea Times" (254,000, also unaudited) are owned by international media giants based in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Seoul, respectively.