User:Prince of Erebor/List of Hong Kong sources
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Unlike WikiProject India, WikiProject Japan, and WikiProject Korea, WikiProject Hong Kong currently does not have a dedicated list of perennial reliable sources. However, this does not imply that all sources from Hong Kong are unreliable. Chinese and Cantonese-language sources are citable on English Wikipedia per WP:NONENG. Some sources have been thoroughly assessed by editors and included in the Wikipedia:Reliable sources/Perennial sources. The Chinese Wikipedia also maintains its own list of perennial sources (zh:維基百科:可靠來源/常見有爭議來源列表), which is compiled, updated, and carefully assessed by editors to reflect community consensus.
While editing articles about Hong Kong, editors unfamiliar with journalism in the Sinophone region often express doubts about certain Hong Kong sources. I often direct them to the Chinese Wikipedia's sources list, but language barriers can pose challenges. This prompted me to categorize and provide translations for a complete list of Hong Kong sources.
Explanatory notes
[edit]- Unlike English Wikipedia, sources on Chinese Wikipedia are classified into five tiers:
Generally reliable, 
Semi-reliable, 
No consensus, 
Generally unreliable, and 
Deprecated. Semi-reliable sources are marked with a grey tick in the lists below. They refer to sources that editors consider generally reliable and usable in most situations, but they meet one of the following four criteria:
- The source lacks a complete editorial team or has not strictly enforced its editorial policies.
- The source has been discredited in fact-checking.
- The source publishes paid product placements or contributions from personal media without proper attribution to distinguish them from other content.
- The source is involved in predatory publishing.
- The source assessment summary in the List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia below is a direct translation of the Chinese Wikipedia's list of perennial sources, formed by consensus among Chinese Wikipedia editors. It does not reflect my personal opinions on any of the listed sources (although I initiated or participated in several RSN discussions on Chinese Wikipedia).
- The source assessments listed in the List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia, reflect the community consensus of Chinese Wikipedia and are for reference only. They do not necessarily apply to English Wikipedia. Nonetheless, they serve as a valuable reference, as some smaller-scale or defunct media may never undergo thorough RfCs here on English Wikipedia. Editors on Chinese Wikipedia also generally have better access to both the Chinese language and certain offline publications (like printed newspapers), allowing for more informed conclusions about these sources.
List of sources assessed on English Wikipedia
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| Apple Daily | 
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 2020
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2021 |
A 2020 RfC found that Apple Daily was often but not always reliable, and that it may be appropriate to use it in articles about Hong Kong, but subject to editorial judgment, particularly if the topic is controversial and/or Apple Daily is the only source for a contested claim. There was concern that historically, it was not necessarily as reliable as it was in 2020. Apple Daily shut down in June 2021; website content is no longer accessible unless archived.[1] Editors with access to Dow Jones Factiva can access articles published by them in print between 2012 January 1 and 2, 018 March 15; simplified Chinese has source code APPLDS and traditional is APPLOT. | 1  
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| South China Morning Post (Sunday Morning Post, Inkstone News) WP:SCMP 📌 |
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2020
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2020 |
The South China Morning Post is widely considered to be the English-language newspaper of record in Hong Kong. In the 2020 RFC, there was consensus that the SCMP is generally reliable. However, in addition, there is a rough consensus that additional considerations may apply for the newspaper's coverage of certain topics, including the Chinese Communist Party and the SCMP's current owner, Alibaba. Editors may apply higher scrutiny when dealing with the SCMP's coverage of such topics. | 1
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| Wen Wei Po WP:WENWEIPO 📌 |
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2020
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2020 |
Wen Wei Po was deprecated in the 2020 RfC as a state-owned Hong Kong propaganda outlet that has published falsified information. | 1
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List of sources assessed on Chinese Wikipedia
[edit]English-language or bilingual
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| Dimsum Daily |  
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1 | 2025 | Dimsum Daily is an English-language news blog founded by wanted Malaysian businessman Toh Lean Seng and owned by the marketing agency Asia Media United.[2] | The news blog has repeatedly published fake news and fringe theories, lacks professional journalists and proper fact-checking oversight, and has a management team with a controversial background. The community unanimously found it to be unreliable, and it has been blacklisted due to its poor credibility. | 1
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| FactWire |
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1 | 2021 | FactWire is a bilingual investigative news agency founded in 2015. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| Hong Kong Free Press |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Hong Kong Free Press is an English-language news website founded by Tom Grundy in 2015, notable for being Hong Kong's first English-language online media. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| Hong Kong Government Gazette |
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1 | 2018 | Hong Kong Government Gazette is the official publication of the Government of Hong Kong. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| Hong Kong Movie Database |
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1 | 2023 | Hong Kong Movie Database is a bilingual online movie database founded by Ryan Law in 1995. | The community unanimously found it to be a self-published source and generally unreliable. | 1
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| Metro Daily | 
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Metro is a free daily newspaper founded in Sweden in 1995, with its Hong Kong branch established in 2002. | Since Metro Daily transitioned to an online media format, it has rarely updated its website, with recent updates primarily consisting of opinion pieces. Considering that Metro Daily does not have a high reputation and credibility, and its update frequency is below that of other media outlets, along with elements of sensationalism and product placement as a free newspaper, the community unanimously regards it as a semi-reliable source. It is worth noting that although there were discussions in 2018 and 2019 about Metro Daily, they only covered the Hong Kong edition and did not address the versions published outside Hong Kong. | |
| The Standard |
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1 | 2018 | The Standard is an English-language daily newspaper founded and operated by the Sing Tao News Corporation in 1949. | The community did not reach a consensus on its reliability, although some editors found at least a portion of its articles to be unreliable. | 1
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Chinese-language
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| am730 |
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1 | 2018 | am730 is a free daily newspaper founded by businessman Shih Wing-ching in 2005. | The community found it may not be generally reliable, although it lacks in-depth discussions. | 1
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| Bastille Post |
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1 | 2019 | Bastille Post is a news website established by the Sing Tao News Corporation in 2013. | Some editors believed that Metro Daily has higher credibility than its competitor Bastille Post, but others argued that credibility does not necessarily equate to reliability. | 1
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| Cable News Hong Kong |
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1 | 2019 | Cable News Hong Kong is the news-gathering arm of the cable television provider Cable Television, with its first news program airing in 2006. | The community found its news reports to be generally reliable. | 1
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| Citizen News |
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1 | 2021 | Citizen News is an online news outlet founded by several journalists, most notably Daisy Li and Kevin Lau, in 2017. | The community formed a clear consensus that it is a generally reliable source. It is worth noting that Citizen News also features opinion pieces and column articles, which should be treated as self-published sources, and editors should evaluate whether the authors are experts in their fields. | 1
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| Headline Daily |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2020 | Headline Daily is a free daily newspaper founded and operated by Sing Tao News Corporation in 2005. | The community had divided opinions and did not reach a consensus regarding its reliability. | 1 2
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| HK Court News |
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1 | 2025 | HK Court News is a news journal founded in 2023, primarily covering court news. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| HK01（All non-political topics and political topics before July 2020) |
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1 · 2 | 2023 | HK01 is a news outlet founded by former Ming Pao chairman Yu Pun-hoi. | HK01 has had little controversy regarding its non-political content, and there are no obvious biases reflected in its political content. The community found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| HK01（Political topics after July 2020 and opinion pieces） |
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1 | 2023 | After the enforcement of 2020 Hong Kong national security law, Deutsche Welle and Commons reported that HK01 had removed an article investigating the 2022 Beijing Sitong Bridge protest, raising questions about the outlet's potential self-censorship.[3] Opinion pieces should also be considered self-published sources, and editors should evaluate whether the authors are experts and if their opinions are neutral. | 1 2
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| HKG Pao |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | HKG Pao is a news website founded by politician Robert Chow in 2015. | The community has found its reputation, reliability, and credibility to be consistently poor, and its radical stance and deliberate misinformation have shown no improvement as of 2020, therefore it is regarded as a generally unreliable source by consensus among editors. It has been added to the abuse filter to prevent non-autoconfirmed users from citing the website. | 1
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| Hong Kong Commercial Daily |
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1 | 2018 | Hong Kong Commercial Daily is a daily newspaper founded in 1952 and is currently state-owned. | The community found some of its articles to be unreliable, although it lacks in-depth discussions. | 1
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| Hong Kong Economic Journal |
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1 | 2018 | Hong Kong Economic Journal is a daily newspaper founded by businessman Lam Shan-muk in 1973 and currently owned by businessman Richard Li. | The community found only a portion of its articles to be reliable, but it lacks in-depth discussions. | 1 2
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| Hong Kong Economic Times |
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1 | 2018 | Hong Kong Economic Times is a daily newspaper founded by businessmen Lawrence Fung and Arthur Shek in 1988. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1 2
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| Hong Kong Inmedia (Before 2022) |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Hong Kong Inmedia is a news website founded by journalists Oiwan Lam and Ip Iam-chong in 2004. | Before 2022, Inmedia operated through citizen journalism. Although its articles labeled "獨媒報導" (Inmedia news reports) are overseen by full-time journalists, the community did not reach a consensus on their reliability. Its interviews and opinion pieces can be cited with proper attribution, but they should be treated as self-published sources, and editors should evaluate whether the authors are experts and if their opinions are neutral. | 1
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| Hong Kong Inmedia (After 2022) |
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1 | 2025 | On 4 January 2022, Hong Kong Inmedia suspended its citizen journalism model and now only retains news articles published by its staff and pieces written by several independent sources. News articles published by Inmedia thereafter is under proper editorial oversight and no controversies have arisen. Contributions from other independent sources that are deemed reliable include FactCheck Lab, Liber Research Community, and Maonshan News. | 1
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| Hong Kong Jockey Club |
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1 · 2 | 2024 | Hong Kong Jockey Club is the government-approved exclusive operator of horse racing, lottery, and overseas sports betting in Hong Kong. | As a reference source for competition results, Hong Kong Jockey Club is generally reliable (although in most cases, it is not as reliable as the official competition websites). However, editors have differing opinions on the reliability of its translations:
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| Initium Media |
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1 · 2 | 2022 | Initium Media is a Hong Kong news outlet founded in 2015. Its headquarters moved to Singapore in 2021. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. It is worth noting that many of Initium's articles are opinion pieces. When citing Initium articles, only those authored by journalists labeled "端傳媒記者" (Initium Media's journalist) are considered generally reliable. Opinion pieces should be treated as self-published sources, and editors should evaluate whether the authors are experts and if their opinions are neutral. | 1
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| Ming Pao |
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1 | 2018 | Ming Pao is a daily newspaper founded by writer Jin Yong and businessman Shen Pao-sing in 1959. It is regarded as one of the most credible newspapers in Hong Kong.[4][5] | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. | |
| Next Magazine |
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1 | 2016 | Next Magazine is a weekly magazine founded by businessman Jimmy Lai in 1990 and operated as a subsidiary of Next Digital. | The community found it to be a tabloid, but some editors did not consider its content to be generally unreliable. | 1 2
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| Now News |
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1 | 2019 | Now News is the news-gathering arm of cable television provider Now TV, with its first news program airing in 2006. | The community found it to be a generally reliable source. | 1
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| Oriental Daily News |
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1 · 2 | 2018 | Oriental Daily News is a daily newspaper founded by businessmen Ma Sik-yu and Ma Sik-chun in 1969. | The community has doubts about its reliability, particularly regarding some health and education columns that appear to be product placements, but no clear consensus has been formed. | 1 2 3
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| Photon Media |
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1 | 2025 | Photon Media is a Taiwan-based Hong Kong news website established in 2023. | Since its establishment, Photon Media has not faced any editorial controversies, and its journalism is widely regarded as highly reliable and credible. As a result, the community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. It is worth noting that its feature interviews should be approached with caution per WP:INTERVIEW, while its opinion pieces should be regarded as self-published sources. | 1
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| The Points |
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1 | 2025 | The Points is an international news website established in 2023. | The Points misreported the death of Albert Chan and faced accusations of plagiarism early in its establishment, but it has also published valuable investigative reports, such as revealing Benny Tai's assistant Kim Chan as the whistleblower in the Hong Kong 47 case. Moreover, the accusations against The Points all occurred in 2023, and there is no evidence of any editorial controversies involving the outlet after 2024. Therefore, its reputation and credibility are considered moderate among Hong Kong media outlets, with the community generally viewing it as semi-reliable. | 1
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| Post 852 |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Post 852 is an online media outlet founded by journalist Yuen Yau-ching in 2013. It ceased operations in 2021. | While its informative reporting became thin in the later stages of operation, there is no external evidence showing that it had serious factual inaccuracies in its reporting. Therefore, the community unanimously found it to be a semi-reliable source. | 1
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| Post-Next Digital media: Channel C, As One Entertainment and Racing King |
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1 | 2022 | — | After the closure of Next Digital in June 2021, its journalists established several new media outlets, including Channel C, As One Entertainment and Racing King. The community found it inappropriate to extend the assessment of Apple Daily's reliability to these outlets. While some editors suggested referencing Apple Daily's evaluation when determining these outlets' reliability, others found it irresponsible to broadly judge the reliability of multiple different outlets. | 1 2 3
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| RTHK（Before February 2021 and non-political topics after February 2021） |
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1 · 2 | 2022 | RTHK is Hong Kong's first radio broadcasting service, founded by the British Hong Kong government in 1928. It currently serves as the public broadcasting service of Hong Kong under the Commerce and Economic Development Bureau. | Before February 2021, RTHK enjoyed full editorial autonomy, free from government and business sector intervention. The community unanimously found its content to be generally reliable. | 1 2
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| RTHK（Political topics after February 2021） |
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1 | 2022 | In February 2021, an official from the Home Affairs Department, Patrick Li, was appointed as RTHK's Director of Broadcasting by the Hong Kong government, leading to political censorship of its current affairs programs.[6] Political content published by RTHK after February 2021 is considered semi-reliable. Editors should also handle some of its wording with caution to adhere to our guidelines and standards for neutrality. | 1 2
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| Scoop |
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1 | 2023 | Scoop is a current affairs program from TVB that first aired in 2005. | The community unanimously found its content to be unreliable, especially concerning politics and issues involving parties with conflicts of interest. Some editors suggested labeling it as generally unreliable, although no consensus was reached. It is preferable to use other sources if available. | 1 2
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| Sing Pao |
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1 · 2 | 2025 | Sing Pao is a daily newspaper founded by independent journalist Ho Man-fat in 1939. | Due to its overall reputation and credibility being average, with signs of declining quality in its articles and an increase in editorial errors in recent years, the community unanimously found it to be a semi-reliable source, although there is no external evidence indicating serious factual inaccuracies in its reporting. | 1
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| Sing Tao Daily |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2021 | Sing Tao Daily is a daily newspaper founded by businessman Aw Boon Haw in 1938. | The community unanimously found at least some of its articles to be reliable, but no unanimous consensus was reached on labeling it as generally reliable. | |
| Sky Post |
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1 | 2018 | Sky Post is a free daily newspaper founded and operated by Hong Kong Economic Times Holdings in 2011. | The community found some of Sky Post's articles to be unreliable, although it lacks in-depth discussions. | 1 2
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| Speak Out HK |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2025 | Speak Out HK is a news website founded by politician Barry Cheung. | The community has found its reputation, reliability, and credibility to be consistently poor, and its radical stance and deliberate misinformation have shown no improvement as of 2020, therefore it is regarded as a generally unreliable source by consensus among editors. It has been added to the abuse filter to prevent non-autoconfirmed users from citing the website. | 1
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| Sportsroad |
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1 | 2025 | Sportsroad is a news website founded in 2013 that specializes in sports news. | The community unanimously found it a generally reliable source, with some opinions giving high praise to its interviews. | 1
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| Stand News |
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1 · 2 · 3 | 2021 | Stand News is a news outlet founded by journalist Chung Pui-kuen in 2014. | The community found it to be a generally reliable source. It is worth noting that properly attributions should be added for its interviews and opinion pieces. | 1
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| Ta Kung Pao |
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1 · 2 | 2019 | Ta Kung Pao is a daily newspaper that originated in Tianjin, China in 1902 and established a Hong Kong branch in 1938. | As one of the oldest Chinese-language newspapers, it was popular in early Hong Kong. Currently state-owned, its credibility rating has significantly declined in recent years. The community was unable to reach a consensus on its reliability, although the majority found Ta Kung Pao's recent articles to be unreliable. | 1 2
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| TVB News |
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1 | 2019 | TVB News is the news-gathering arm of the free television broadcaster Television Broadcasts Limited, with its first news program airing in 1967. | The community had serious divisions regarding its reliability. | 1
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| The Ulitmate Guide to Hong Kong Film Directors |
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1 | 2025 | The Ultimate Guide to Hong Kong Directors is a publication authored by the Hong Kong Film Directors' Guild on the funding of the Hong Kong Film Development Fund. It is available in both online and print formats, with the printed version edited by film scholar Freddie Wong and documented by seven university libraries in Hong Kong. | The community unanimously found it to be a reliable source. | 1
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| The Witness |
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1 · 2 | 2025 | The Witness is a news website founded in 2022, primarily covering court news and legal information. | The community unanimously found it to be a generally reliable source. It is notable that its articles and images are published under a CC-BY 4.0 license. | 1
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| Yazhou Zhoukan |
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1 | 2024 | Yazhou Zhoukan is an international newspaper based in Hong Kong, founded in 1987. | There is evidence that its content, particularly on political topics, is unreliable, but no consensus has been formed, and the community requires further evaluation of its reliability. | 1
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| Yule HK |
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1 | 2023 | Yule HK is a Hong Kong website that publishes entertainment news. | The community found it to be a possible content farm and unanimously agreed to deprecate it. | 1
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Other languages
[edit]| Source | Status (legend) |
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| List | Last | Description | Summary | |||
| Hong Kong Post |
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1 | 2018 | Hong Kong Post is a Japanese-language newspaper founded in 1987. | The community found some of its articles to be unreliable, although it lacks in-depth discussions. | 1
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Apple Daily: Hong Kong pro-democracy paper announces closure". BBC News. 23 June 2021. Archived from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
- ^ Power, John; Lum, Alvin (26 September 2019). "Controversial Hong Kong website Dim Sum Daily linked to company owned by man wanted in Malaysia over 1MDB scandal". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 26 May 2025.
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- 胡家欣 (5 September 2021). "城市論壇停播｜李百全上任半年 港台6節目消失 多集鏗鏘集抽起". HK01 (in Chinese). Retrieved 8 May 2025.
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