Education
Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Students’ Loan Fund
Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Students’ Loan Fund seeks to assist, by way of interest-free loans, students who face financial difficulty and are nominated by their education institutes. The Loan Fund is composed of two parts – loans to students of the eight University Grants Committee-funded universities and Hong Kong Shue Yan University, and emergency loans to students of the aforementioned nine universities, certain other tertiary institutions and secondary schools recognized by the Education Bureau.
Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Scholarships
Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Scholarships was set up to offer one-off scholarships to outstanding students studying Journalism and Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, in order to nurture future journalists and talents in the news industry. Since February 2019 Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Scholarships was extended to students in Journalism and Communication at Chu Hai College of Higher Education. In 2021, the "Sing Tao Charitable Foundation Scholarships" was awarded scholarships to these students in recognition of the champions of the HKDSE and the elites of the "Sing Tao Inter-School Debating Competition".
The Standard/Sing Tao “Fat Choy” Drive Medical Students Loan Fund
The Standard/Sing Tao “Fat Choy” Drive Medical Students Loan Fund aims to provide financial assistance, by way of interest-free loans, to students in Medicine, Nursing and Chinese Medicine at The University of Hong Kong.
More than 800 students and families have benefited from Sing Tao Charitable Foundation in the past eight years.
Charity & Community Care
Sing Tao Charitable Foundation – Readers’ Donations
Through the reporting in the Group’s publications, readers become aware of the needs of individuals and families struck by adversities and want to provide financial assistance to them. Sing Tao Charitable Foundation serves as a channel to coordinate readers’ donations and ensure that the process is systematic and accountable. Readers can choose to donate on a one-off or ongoing basis and over the years the Foundation has helped many individuals and families in need to tide over their worst times.
More than 165 families have benefited from Sing Tao Charitable Foundation in the past eight years.