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Sing Tao Media Group (Canada) STMG
Sing Tao Media Group's head office in Markham, Ontario
TypeDaily online & radio, weekly & quarterly magazines
FormatBroadsheet
Owners
LanguageChinese
HeadquartersSuite 201, 25 Royal Crest Court, Markham, Ontario
L3R 9X4
Circulation180,000
Websitewww.stmg.ca
Sing Tao Daily
Traditional Chinese星島日報
Simplified Chinese星岛日报
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinXīngdǎo Rìbào
Wade–GilesHsingtao Jihpao
Tongyong PinyinXīngdǎo Rìhbào
Yale RomanizationSyīngdǎu R̀bàu
IPA[ɕíŋtàʊ ɻɻ̩̂pâʊ]
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationSīngdóu Yahtbou
JyutpingSing1 dou2 jat6 bou3
IPA[ɕɪ́ŋtǒu jɐ̀tpōu]

Sing Tao Media Group (Canada) (Chinese: 加拿大星島傳媒集團), or STMG for short, is a Chinese language media group based in Toronto, Ontario.[1] It offers digital and social media marketing, radio broadcasting, magazine publishing, events management and e-commerce to Chinese Canadians, the second largest ethnic group in Canada.

The media brand began in Canada in 1978 as a Hong Kong-owned Chinese language newspaper. At a time, it published the largest Chinese-language newspaper in Canada, with print editions in Toronto, Vancouver, and Calgary. In a pivot to digital media, the print editions ceased publication on August 28, 2022.[2] Today, it is the largest Chinese media group in Canada, reaching a community of 1.7 million nationwide.[3]

Since 2023, it is jointly owned by a private Canadian corporation and the Hong Kong–based Sing Tao News Corporation. Previously, between 1998 and 2023, it was jointly owned by Torstar Corporation and Sing Tao News Corporation.

The current CEO of the company is Anson Wong, who succeeded the retiring Calvin Wong in April 2023.[4]

Sing Tao's was connected to the Toronto Star through Andrew V. Go, former Star vice president for business ventures.[5] Go's father, Go Puan Seng, was the publisher of The Fookien Times, then the Philippines' largest Chinese-language newspaper which also published the Philippine edition of the Sing Tao,[6] and was a family friend of then Sing Tao Group's Sally Aw.[7]

Reception

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According to former editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Victor Ho, and Jonathan Manthorpe, author of Claws of the Panda, the newspaper's editorial stance is pro-Beijing.[8][9]

In 2009, the top editor of Toronto's Sing Tao Daily, Wilson Chan, was fired shortly after it was revealed that he drastically modified an original Toronto Star article on Tibet to remove criticisms of the Chinese government, before publishing the story in Sing Tao. The decision to remove Chan is said to have come from Torstar Corp, who owns a majority share in Sing Tao's Canadian edition.[10]

The original story, "Chinese Canadians Conflicted on Tibet",[11] which ran on April 13, 2008, was written by a reporter for the Toronto Star, an English-language newspaper also owned by Torstar Corporation. The relationship gives Sing Tao rights to translate and publish stories from the Star. Chan's edits to the Chinese language story, which were revealed by media outlets in 2009, included changing the headline to, "The West Attacks China With Tibet Issue, Inciting Chinese Patriotism Overseas". The edited version omitted all quotes critical of the Chinese regime's human rights abuses and added comments blaming the West for "suppressing China" with media reports of the crackdown in Tibet.

Sing Tao Canada won the inaugural Special Topic Award at the National Newspaper Awards in 2024 and received the same honour again in 2025.[12]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Sing Tao makes history with National Newspaper Awards win". www.newswire.ca. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  2. ^ Gandham, Yasmin (July 31, 2022). "Sing Tao, Canada's largest Chinese-language newspaper, to end print edition". CBC. Retrieved Jan 10, 2025.
  3. ^ Patti Summerfield (December 10, 2020). "Sing Tao's digital evolution brings ecommerce success". Media in Canada. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  4. ^ Josh Kolm (March 28, 2023). "Sing Tao names new leadership as CEO prepares to retire". Media in Canada. Retrieved 2025-01-10.
  5. ^ "Felisa Go, 91". The Philippine Star. PhilStar Daily, Inc. March 10, 2003. Retrieved July 1, 2016.
  6. ^ Blaker, James Roland (1965). "The Chinese Newspaper in the Philippines: Toward the Definition a Tool" (PDF). Asian Studies. 3 (2). University of the Philippines Diliman: 243–261. Retrieved June 28, 2016.
  7. ^ nhunebrown (2010-06-01). "Lost in Translation". Nicholas Hune-Brown. Retrieved 2020-12-06.
  8. ^ Blackwell, Tom (December 3, 2020). "Inside Canada's Chinese-language media: 'Beijing has become the mainstream,' says ex-Sing Tao editor". National Post. Retrieved December 5, 2020.
  9. ^ Manthorpe, Jonathan (2019). Claws of the Panda: Beijing's Campaign of Influence and Intimidation in Canada. Cormorant Books. pp. 170–171. ISBN 978-1-77086-540-2. OCLC 1158965449.
  10. ^ "Editor Dismissed Over Pro-Beijing Edits, Say Sources". Canada Free Press.
  11. ^ "Chinese Canadians conflicted on Tibet". thestar.com. 2008-04-13. Retrieved 2022-08-01.
  12. ^ Wake, Bev (2024-04-27). "Sing Tao makes history with National Newspaper Awards win". National Newspaper Awards. Retrieved 2026-01-14.
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