Asia Times Explained

Asia Times
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Chiefeditor:Uwe Parpart[1]
Maneditor:Shawn W. Crispin
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Opeditor:David Simmons
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Headquarters:Hong Kong
Publishing City:Richmond, BC
Publishing Country:China
Current Status:Active

Asia Times, formerly known as Asia Times Online, is a Hong Kongbased English language news media publishing group, covering politics, economics, business, and culture from an Asian perspective.[2] Asia Times publishes in English and simplified Chinese.

History

The Hong Kong website is self-described successor to Bangkok-based print newspaper Asia 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 newspaper Asia Times, owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, a Thai media mogul and leader of the People'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 the Asia Times print edition continued their careers as journalists, and a group of those contributors created Asia Times Online as a successor to the Asia Times. The word "Online" is no longer part of the website news portal.

In 2006, The New York Times described Asia 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... in Bangkok and Hong Kong...supported by bureaus in Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, and New York."[6]

Political stance

As of 22 February 2024, Asia Times has carried news articles from many contributors, some of whom contradict each other. Some articles have a pro-Russia leaning,[7] [8] [9] while others have an anti-Russia leaning.[10] [11]

Until June 2021, Pepe Escobar wrote articles for the news site, whose topics included Xinjiang internment camp denialism and promoting the Great Reset conspiracy theory.[12]

Notes and References

  1. News: About Asia Times .
  2. Web site: About us — Bridging East and West. 2011. Asia Times Online. https://web.archive.org/web/20110513105745/http://www.atimes.com/mediakit/aboutus.html. 2011-05-13. dead. 2011-04-03.
  3. Web site: Asia Times . Small Wars Journal . 2017-02-22.
  4. Web site: Asia Times Trademark of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited – Registration Number 4691772 – Serial Number 86328077 . Justia Trademarks. 2017-02-22.
  5. News: Vaudine . England . Asia's English readers miss in-depth media — Business — International Herald Tribune . 2006-05-28 . . 2011-04-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20141218011610/http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/28/business/worldbusiness/28iht-amedia29.1835270.html?_r=2 . 2014-12-18 . live .
  6. Web site: 2019-03-28 . About Asia Times . 2022-04-25 . Asia Times . en-US.
  7. Web site: Demise of Navalny strategic loss for Putin, windfall for the West. 19 February 2024. 22 February 2024. Nevertheless, the West, driven by its agenda, is seemingly willing to capitalize on Navalny’s death and overlook these aspects in its pursuit of destabilizing “Putin’s Russia.”.
  8. Web site: Regime change is coming – to Kiev. 20 February 2024. 22 February 2024. The Azov brigade is the backbone of Zelensky’s ultra-nationalist support in Ukraine. If any organization in Ukraine fits Putin’s description of Ukrainian Nazis, the 3rd Brigade is the premier example. Zelensky’s political power depends on the Ukrainian military, and in particular the ultra-nationalists..
  9. Web site: NATO is a mess and the Russians are winning. 20 December 2023. 22 February 2024. The Army is trying to fix the problem but a lot of it is based on the strange WOKE approach of the Army’s leadership and myriad complicating issues, particularly since the Covid epidemic when the Pentagon ordered troops to get vaccinations or get booted out of the military..
  10. Web site: Russian roulette for Putin at no-contest election. 8 February 2024. 22 February 2024.
  11. Web site: A war for the soul of humanity. 20 February 2024. 22 February 2024.
  12. Web site: Empire of Clowns versus Yellow Peril. 14 June 2021. 22 February 2024. Asia Times. Start with “Build Back Better” – or B3 – showing up in the title. B3 is now official code for both The Great Reset and the New Green Deal. (…) In contrast to politicized accusations of “crimes against humanity” against Xinjiang’s Muslim Uighur population, the best analysis of what’s really going on there has been published by the Qiao collective, (…).

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