Apple Daily is a
Hong Kong-based
tabloid-style newspaper founded in 1995 by
Jimmy Lai Chee Ying and is
published by its company,
Next Media. A sister publication carrying the same name is published in Taiwan,
Republic of China under a joint venture between Next Media and other Taiwanese companies. Apple Daily tends to favour the
pan-democracy camp in its editorials and commentaries. However, this position has resulted in backlashes - ostensibly led by the Chinese government, who opposes
democracy in Hong Kong - involving advertising boycotts, online hacking attacks and torchings of their newspapers.