Asia Times

*Asia Times*
Editor-in-chief	Uwe Parpart
Managing editor	Shawn W. Crispin
Opinion editor	David Simmons
Headquarters	Hong Kong
City	Richmond, BC
Country	China
Website	asiatimes.com

Asia Times (Chinese: 亞洲時報), formerly known as Asia Times Online, is a Hong Kong–based 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.^{[citation needed]} 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]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "About Asia Times".
^ "About us — Bridging East and West". Asia Times Online. 2011. Archived from the original on 2011-05-13. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
^ "Asia Times". Small Wars Journal. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
^ "Asia Times Trademark of Asia Times Online (Holdings) Limited – Registration Number 4691772 – Serial Number 86328077". Justia Trademarks. Retrieved 2017-02-22.
^ England, Vaudine (2006-05-28). "Asia's English readers miss in-depth media — Business — International Herald Tribune". The New York Times. Archived from the original on 2014-12-18. Retrieved 2011-04-03.
^ "About Asia Times". Asia Times. 2019-03-28. Retrieved 2022-04-25.
^ "Demise of Navalny strategic loss for Putin, windfall for the West". 19 February 2024. Retrieved 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."
^ "Regime change is coming – to Kiev". 20 February 2024. Retrieved 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.
^ "NATO is a mess and the Russians are winning". 20 December 2023. Retrieved 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.
^ "Russian roulette for Putin at no-contest election". 8 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "A war for the soul of humanity". 20 February 2024. Retrieved 22 February 2024.
^ "Empire of Clowns versus Yellow Peril". Asia Times. 14 June 2021. Retrieved 22 February 2024. 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, (…)