The site was launched in August 2006 in Hong Kong,[1][non-primary source needed] and its assets were transferred to a U.S. registered company in 2017.
The editor-in-chief, John Berthelsen, was formerly a correspondent with The Wall Street Journal Asia, as well as the Newsweek correspondent in Vietnam and managing editor of the Hong Kong Standard.
Co-founder Philip Bowring was formerly the editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review and a former columnist for the International Herald Tribune.
[citation needed] The fourth founder, Anthony Spaeth, was previously a Time Asia regional correspondent, and left the Asia Sentinel shortly after its founding to work for Bloomberg.
Asia Sentinel subsequently partially complied with the order by placing the requisite correction notice below the article at issue, alongside a statement that the publication was "reserving the right to answer [the Singapore government's] demand at a future time" and that "we stand by our story".