
Blank Walls on Hong Kong Campuses
Hong Kong’s top-ranked university has boarded up its famous “Democracy Wall,” once a space for free student expression. The move marks the true end of an era.

Sing Tao News Corporation Limited (星島新聞集團有限公司), also known as the Sing Tao Group (星島新聞集團), is a Hong Kong media company listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange whose flagship title, Sing Tao Daily, was first published in 1938. The present holding company traces to 1996, when it was incorporated as Perfect Treasure Holdings before being acquired and renamed by businessman Charles Ho Tsu-kwok, who chaired the group from 2001 to 2021 and was, according to the South China Morning Post, a standing committee member of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, a national political advisory body under the Chinese Communist Party. In 2021, Ho sold a controlling stake to Kwok Hiu-ting, an executive of Mainland Chinese property developer Kaisa Group, and her father Kwok Ying-shing, Kaisa’s chairman, became Sing Tao’s chairman. The group’s titles include Sing Tao Daily, the English-language Standard, and free daily Headline Daily, and it has supported National Security Department-run youth competitions including NStudio and NStory.
