The Hong Kong website is self-described successor to Bangkok-based print newspaper Asia Times that was launched in 1995 and closed in mid-1997, using the domain asiatimes.com.

[3] Asia Times Online was created early in 1999, at atimes.com, describing itself as a successor in "publication policy and editorial outlook" to the print newspaper Asia Times, owned by Sondhi Limthongkul, a Thai media mogul and leader of the People's Alliance for Democracy, who later sold his business.

The new publishing company is Asia Times Holdings Limited, incorporated and registered in Hong Kong.

Other executives include Cecil Ho, former chief financial officer of ReOrient Group Limited.

According to its "About" page, Asia Times has "two main newsrooms and social media hubs ... in Bangkok and Hong Kong ... supported by bureaus in Seoul, Beijing, Singapore, and New York.