Complex sentence: Prior to the formal closure in 2009, FEER first died in 1992 when Bowring was forced to resign as editor, and again when it was merged with the "Asian Wall Street Journal".
Split into simpler sentences: Prior to the formal closure in 2009, FEER first died in 1992 when Bowring was forced to resign as editor. It lost more of its soul when it was merged with the "Asian Wall Street Journal".