The Online Citizen

Source profile

Origin:

Singapore

Region:

Asia

Founded:

December 2006

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.

Language:

English