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Asia Times is a pan-Asian news media publisher based in Hong Kong. Its focus is Asian news, analysis and opinion, and regional and geopolitical commentary.

According to Google Analytics and Facebook Page Insights data from December 2018, Asia Times – in the last three months of 2018 – had an average of 8.8 million monthly readers, around 770,000 social media followers and was receiving more than 21 million monthly page views. This data also showed Asia Times was being read regularly in more than 30 countries.

Founded in Bangkok in 1995 as an English language printed broadsheet newspaper, today’s Asia Times is a digital-only news platform that publishes predominantly in English and also in Arabic, traditional and simplified Chinese, Filipino, Bahasa Indonesia, Korean and Vietnamese.

Asia Times publishes via its main www.asiatimes.com site, and also via apps and multiple social media platforms, from three main newsroom and video production hubs in Bangkok, Hong Kong and New Delhi. These are supported by news bureaus in Beirut, London, New York, Washington and Seoul.

Geographically-specific Asia Times sites include ones for China, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Asia Times relaunched with a new management structure, digital publishing platform and operational focus in October 2016, with Uwe Parpart as publisher. The group relaunched its main news platform again in February 2019 with a "Read Think Know Asia" slogan, a new web design and a domain name change to www.asiatimes.com. Patrick Dunne is Managing Editor.

Content
In 2017, the Media Bias/Fact Check website gave Asia Times a "LEAST BIASED" political bias rating and a factual reporting ranking of "HIGH".

The Media Bias/Fact Check site, that rates the factual accuracy of news media outlets on a scale from "very high" to "very low" while classifying political bias on an "extreme left" to "extreme right" scale, wrote that Asia Times has "minimal bias and use very few loaded words (wording that attempts to influence an audience by using appeal to emotion or stereotypes). The reporting is factual and usually sourced."

Media Bias/Fact Check added that "Asia Times typically publishes articles that are well sourced... While opinion pieces tend to have an anti-American bias, their straight news coverage is well sourced and least biased. Overall, we rate Asia Times least biased through proper sourcing and story selection, while high for factual reporting.

A 2002 World News Guide published by The Guardian said Asia Times was a "good source of political and business news from across the continent.

History
Asia Times Online was created in 1999 as a successor in "publication policy and editorial outlook" to the Asia Times print newspaper that was launched in 1995 by owner Sondhi Limthongkul, a Thai media mogul and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy. It covered politics, economics, business and culture from an Asian perspective.

Now known as "Asia Times" or "AT", it has dropped the "Online" part of its name. Today's Asia Times website is a direct descendant of the Bangkok-based print newspaper that was launched in 1995 and closed in mid-1997.

Today the publishing company is Asia Times Holdings Limited, incorporated and duly registered in Hong Kong with offices in Bangkok and New Delhi.