[3] In 1992, Sing Tao Daily, encountering financial difficulties, established a joint publication with the International Culture Publishing Corporation, a front organization for China's Ministry of State Security according to Alex Joske.

[5] In June 2021, a real estate developer's daughter from mainland China purchased a majority stake in the company.

[11] A 2001 article by the Jamestown Foundation claimed that two of Sing Tao's owners were members of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and one editor had previously worked for China Daily.

[11] In 2013, an analyst at Freedom House wrote in a report submitted to the Center for International Media Assistance that in recent decades, Sing Tao's management and owners began practicing "self-censorship," "high-risk" contributors were terminated, and journalists left due to an "unpalatable editorial policy."

Topics such as the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests and massacre, human rights in Tibet, and Taiwanese independence were minimized or avoided.