''House News'' () was a

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news website, content aggregator, and

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founded by Simon Lau, Tony Tsoi, Leung Man-tao, Simon Lau and Greg Sung, which featured columnists and various news sources. The site offered news, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, lifestyle, culture, nature, technology, media, and local news. The successor of House News was

Stand News ''Stand News'' ( zh, t=立場新聞) was a free non-profit online news website based in Hong Kong from 2014 to 2021. Founded in December 2014, it was the successor of ''House News''. It primarily focused on social and political issues in Hong ...

(立場新聞).

History

Launch

The site was launched on 6 July 2012, through

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, with the website going live on 28 July, in time for the successful protest against Hong Kong

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the following day, which promoted Chinese political values and pro-

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. On 28 August, the site launched an 'Election Dashboard' for the 2012 legislative elections.

Closure

On 26 July 2014, 17:06 (GMT +8), an announcement written by the founder Tony Tsoi was posted on Facebook, indicating an instant cessation of services of the websiteTsoi, T. (26 July 2014) 給關心主場新聞的人. ''Facebook''. Retrieved from https://www.facebook.com/thehousenews/posts/551166598320991 and the site now simply displays a closure announcement. The reasons given for closure were: * Hong Kong has changed in such a way that being a normal

citizen Citizenship is a "relationship between an individual and a state to which the individual owes allegiance and in turn is entitled to its protection". Each state determines the conditions under which it will recognize persons as its citizens, and ...

or a normal news medium or doing good for society is very scary and difficult to sustain. * Tony Tsoi and his family is under political pressure and he is particularly fearful whenever crossing the border into China which is necessary in looking after his business interests on the mainland. * Despite unique visitors to House News in June 2014 topping 300 thousand, advertising revenues have been weak as the site has been shunned by many potential advertisers for political reasons. Consequently, there was little hope of it achieving

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. * The successor of House News is

(立場新聞).

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External links

Official Site Official Facebook PageElection Dashboard
Newspaper companies of Hong Kong Hong Kong websites New media

History

Launch

Closure

See also

References

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