When Sin Po launched, Lauw took on the editorial duties and Yoe took on the administrative aspects, with Hauw Tek Kong as director.

[1] Razoux Kühr was a strange figure, a disgraced former civil servant who had written an English-language booklet denouncing the Dutch system of laws.

[7] In particular the paper harshly attacked Phoa Keng Hek and Khouw Kim An, high-profile Chinese Officers, and accused them of corruption and abuse of authority.

[8] One Sin Po editor was forced to resign from the board of the Tiong Hoa Hwee Koan and was then expelled as a member of the organization.

One case that they printed proof of was a receipt for payment of a Sin Po journalist to Garut where they were hosted by the local Chinese community and directed to investigate a district head who had been mistreating them.

[11] Although Razoux Kühr was announced as editor in chief of Sin Po's rival paper, Perniagaan in 1918, it was apparently short-lived, and he never again held a prominent editorial job.

[12] Kwee Hing Tjiat was a lifelong journalist who by 1916 had already been editor of Bok Tok and Tjhoen Tjhioe in Surabaya as well as Palita in Yogyakarta.

[17] It was at around this time that the former editor Razoux Kühr, now at Perniagaan, got into a legal dispute with director Hauw Tek Kong of Sin Po.

When Hauw Tek Kong was barred from re-entering the Indies after a visit to China, Tjoe briefly became director of the paper as well as editor-in-chief.

Both men would be in those positions for several decades[19] Kwee Kek Beng was a Dutch-educated former schoolteacher who had been a contributor to Bin Seng and Java Bode before being hired as a junior editor at Sin Po in 1922.

[2] This was a weekly journal published in European languages, including but not limited to Dutch, in which Chinese intellectuals could discuss the issues of the day in a more serious manner.

[1] In the late 1930s Sin Po shifted its campaigning towards fundraising for China and spreading an anti-Japanese message among the Indies Chinese readership.

[21] Another paper called Kung Yung Pao, edited by Oey Tiang Tjoei briefly took the place of Sin Po in Batavia society during this era.

[23] After the war ended the paper resumed publication and Kwee returned to his position, but he got into a feud with publisher Ang Jan Goan, and resigned as editor-in-chief in 1947.

Several of its editors were arrested and held without charge as part of the mass arrests of leftists and Chinese Indonesians ordered by the Soekiman Cabinet in August 1951; this included editors A. Karim, Tjia Tjo Soen, Lieng Jing Chen, Lee Swie Kee and Oen Tek Hian, as well as the director Ang Jan Goan.