The Standard

Crosswire lists The Standard as Center within Hong Kong's media spectrum — the grouping it uses both for genuinely centrist titles and for outlets the major media-bias assessments do not place consistently on one side.

Read The Standard beside another title from Hong Kong and the differences show up fastest in what leads the page. Two dailies from Hong Kong covering the same day will usually agree on the facts and differ on the ordering: which story is worth the top of the page, how the headline characterises it, and which follow-ups get space. Those are The Standard's editorial choices, and they are easiest to see side by side. Because The Standard is listed near the centre, it works best as the fixed point in a comparison — put a left- and a right-leaning title from Hong Kong either side of it and the direction each one pulls becomes measurable rather than impressionistic.

This is an approximate orientation, not a definitive judgement — and not a rating of quality or accuracy. Read how Crosswire classifies editorial leanings, including the sources behind each label. Directory last reviewed 2026-08-31. Think this label is wrong? Suggest a correction.

The Standard is one of 6 outlets tracked in Hong Kong, and one of 3 daily newspapers among them — the others being South China Morning Post and China Daily Hong Kong. By outlets tracked, Hong Kong ranks fifth of the 33 countries on Crosswire's Asia hub, which lists 169 outlets in all.

Across Asia, Crosswire tracks 67 of the 396 daily newspapers in the directory. The nearest counterparts to The Standard outside Hong Kong, starting with East Asia, are Taipei Times (Taiwan), The UB Post (Mongolia), The Hindu (India) and Dawn (Pakistan). Opening one of them beside The Standard is the quickest way to see what is a house style and what is a national one.