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Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong

The Sing Tao Daily (also known as Sing Tao Jih Pao) is among Hong Kong's oldest Chinese language newspapers. It is owned by Sing Tao News Corporation, of which Kwok Ying shing 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.

Sing Tao Daily is the oldest Chinese language daily newspaper in Hong Kong, having commenced publication on 1 August 1938. 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. Until 2002, the parent company of Sing Tao Daily was Sing Tao Holdings; since then it has been Sing Tao News Corporation. In June 2021, a real estate developer's daughter from mainland China purchased a majority stake in the company.

The Sing Tao has a long pro government history. Before the handover of Hong Kong to China, it supported the Kuomintang and British Hong Kong government; and once Hong Kong was transferred and turned into a special administrative region, the paper turned its support to the Beijing government. Sing Tao’s reporting on China now aligns with that of state run media from Beijing. According to a Hoover Institution report, Sing Tao was purchased by a pro Beijing businessman in May 2001, who soon after partnered with the Xinhua News Agency to establish a joint venture, leading to the formation of an information service company named Xinhua Online. It is another formerly independent Chinese newspaper that has fallen under Beijing’s control.