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| Editor-in-chief | Uwe Parpart[1] |
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| Managing editor | Shawn W. Crispin[1] |
| Opinion editor | David Simmons[1] |
| Headquarters | Hong Kong[1] |
| ISSN | 1833-9638 |
| Website | asiatimes |
Asia Times (Chinese:亞洲時報), formerly known asAsia Times Online, is aHong Kong–basedEnglish languagenews media publishing group, coveringpolitics,economics,business, and culture from anAsian perspective.[2]Asia Times publishes in English and simplified Chinese.
The Hong Kong website is self-described successor toBangkok-based print newspaperAsia Times that was launched in 1995 and closed in mid-1997, using the domain asiatimes.com.[3]
Asia Times Online was created early in 1999, at atimes.com, describing itself as a successor in "publication policy and editorial outlook" to the print newspaperAsia Times, owned bySondhi Limthongkul, aThaimedia mogul and leader of thePeople's Alliance for Democracy, who later sold his business.
The new publishing company is Asia Times Holdings Limited, incorporated and registered in Hong Kong.[4] Many reporters from theAsia Times print edition continued their careers as journalists, and a group of those contributors createdAsia Times Online as a successor to theAsia Times.[citation needed] The word "Online" is no longer part of the website news portal.
In 2006,The New York Times describedAsia Times Online as "one of the most prominent of the [English-language] regional publications" covering Asia.[5]
The site was relaunched with a new logo and design in October 2016 with Uwe Parpart as editor. Other executives include Cecil Ho, former chief financial officer of ReOrient Group Limited.
The site was again relaunched in February 2019 with a refreshed web design, multiple languages and a domain name change to asiatimes.com. According to its "About" page,Asia Times has "two main newsrooms and social media hubs ... inBangkok andHong Kong ... supported by bureaus in Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, and New York."[6]
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