The Sing Tao Daily (Chinese: 星島日報) (also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao) is Hong Kong‘s oldest and second-largest Chinese language newspaper.[citation needed] It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying-shing (Chinese: 郭英成) is chairman. Its English language sister paper is The Standard.
Sing Tao’s Toronto edition is partly owned by Star Media Group, the publisher of the Toronto Star, a Torstar Corporation company.[1]
History
Passenger car with Sing Tao News Corporation livery
Sing Tao Daily is the oldest Chinese language daily newspaper in Hong Kong, having commenced publication on 1 August 1938.[2]
The first overseas edition of the paper was launched in 1963 in San Francisco, where the group’s first overseas office was set up in May 1964.[2]
In 1992, Sing Tao Daily, encountering financial difficulties, established a joint publication with the International Culture Publishing Corporation, a front organization for the Ministry of State Security.[3]
Until 2002, the parent company of Sing Tao Daily was Sing Tao Holdings; since then it has been Sing Tao News Corporation.
In 2021, Sing Tao’s U.S.-based subsidiaries registered with the United States Department of Justice as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act.[4][5]