(This article is about the Hong Kong version of the newspaper. For the Taiwanese version of the newspaper, see Apple Daily (Taiwan).) 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 Digital. 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.