# The Online Citizen > The Online Citizen is a news source in the TOLD catalogue, based in Singapore. TOLD classifies its editorial position as **Lean left**. - **Domain:** theonlinecitizen.com - **Website:** https://theonlinecitizen.com - **Country:** Singapore - **Region:** Asia - **Language:** English - **Editorial position on TOLD:** Lean left - **Founded:** December 2006 ## About The Online Citizen files Singapore politics from Taipei, four years after the regulator cancelled its licence at home. Court orders have taken more than three quarters of a million Singapore dollars off its editor and barred the site from earning anything inside the country, and it still publishes about three items a day. Every one is signed by the same machine byline, and nothing says which parts a person wrote. ## Profile - **Ownership:** Founded in Singapore in December 2006 by Andrew Loh and Choo Zheng Xi; Terry Xu has been chief editor since 2011 and is the only person named anywhere on the site. Published since 2022 by Miaoyi Infotech Ltd, registered in Taipei, whose shareholders are not disclosed. No party owns or directs it; the government's case against it has concerned declaration of funding sources rather than party affiliation, and no court has found that it received foreign money. - **Funding:** Reader contributions through a membership platform and a tipping service, directed to work outside the designated platforms. The site states it cannot accept direct reader support for the designated location while the designation stands, and it is barred from receiving advertising or other financial benefit from it inside Singapore. No revenue figure is published. - **Focus areas:** Singapore politics and parliamentary process, housing, land use and forest clearance, cost of living, courts and civil liberties, migrant workers, and a separate higher-volume regional stream covering the rest of Asia. ## What the position means TOLD classifies what an outlet publishes over time, based on ownership, funding and focus. It describes a pattern; it is not a rating of quality and not a ranking. Nothing in TOLD sorts, hides or promotes a source by its position. State-aligned and partisan outlets are in the catalogue on purpose, labelled. ## Latest headlines Read from this source's RSS feed. Follow the link to the newsroom that published it. - [A caregiver's case for saving Maju Forest](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/31/a-caregiver-s-case-for-saving-maju-forest) — 2026-08-31T07:30:03.000Z - [Financial strain among Singapore cancer survivors linked to poorer quality of life](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/31/financial-strain-among-singapore-cancer-survivors-linked-to-poorer-quality-of-life) — 2026-08-31T05:00:49.000Z - [Income Insurance chief executive Andrew Yeo to step down at end of 2026](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/31/income-insurance-chief-executive-andrew-yeo-to-step-down-at-end-of-2026) — 2026-08-31T04:00:57.000Z - [LTA says officers could have been more sensitive after cyclist knelt on overhead bridge](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/29/lta-says-officers-could-have-been-more-sensitive-after-cyclist-knelt-on-overhead-bridge) — 2026-08-29T12:15:56.000Z - [Bloomberg did not appeal defamation ruling, Shanmugam says](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/29/bloomberg-did-not-appeal-defamation-ruling-shanmugam-says) — 2026-08-29T11:30:37.000Z - [The real Air India question: How did SIA become responsible for funding its turnaround?](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/28/the-real-air-india-question-how-did-sia-become-responsible-for-funding-its-turnaround) — 2026-08-28T07:20:00.000Z - [High Court cuts scam mule's jail term from nearly eight months to 15 weeks](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/28/high-court-cuts-scam-mule-s-jail-term-from-nearly-eight-months-to-15-weeks) — 2026-08-28T03:30:33.000Z - [US issues Level 2 Zika warning for Bali as Indonesia reports no confirmed local cases](https://theonlinecitizen.com/2026/08/27/us-issues-level-2-zika-warning-for-bali-as-indonesia-reports-no-confirmed-local-cases) — 2026-08-27T10:30:00.000Z ## Assessment note Latest assessment: 2026-08-19. 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