About AsiaScoop
AsiaScoop was started by Ajay Singh, an Indian journalist, with moral support from several of his one-time colleagues who worked for Asiaweek, a Hong Kong-based, Time Inc. newsweekly. Asiaweek was Southeast Asia’s largest-circulation English-language weekly magazine and one of the first to go online in 1995. Known for being “Asia’s voice in the world,” it was shut down by Time in December 2001, following the colossal corporate losses that Time-Warner suffered after its merger with AOL. AsiaScoop’s mission reflects that of Asiaweek: To fearlessly report and analyze the major issues facing Asia in every sphere of human activity. In a staggeringly obese cyberworld of constantly changing facts and ideas, AsiaScoop hopes to capture and preserve what’s truly important about Asia, the vast and culturally fertile continent spanning no less than 40 nations and regions, including China, Japan and Korea, the entire Southeast, the Indian Subcontinent, plus parts of Russia, Central Asia, Australasia and Oceania. Our ultimate goal is to foster a dialogue among Asians — and between Asia and the West — to help further Asia’s enormous potential as a political, economic and cultural powerhouse, not to mention a beacon of peace and hope to the rest of the world. This is a huge but urgent task, given that the entire world faces unprecedented challenges to everything from its communities to its ecosystems, endangering our very survival.
