Editorial standards

Our mission

RetailNews Asia covers the business of retail across Asia-Pacific — grocery, fashion, e-commerce, malls, supply chain, retail technology and consumer finance. Our job is to explain what is changing, why it matters, and what serious operators, investors and policymakers should do about it.

Sourcing

• Original reporting is grounded in named sources, company statements, filings, and on-the-record interviews wherever possible.
• Aggregated coverage clearly identifies the originating publication or wire, links to the source, and adds independent context or analysis rather than copying text.
• Anonymous sources are used only when the information is in the public interest, cannot be obtained on the record, and has been corroborated. We describe why a source is unnamed.
• Financial data, market sizes and rankings are attributed to the publishing analyst, government body or company that produced them.

Verification

Before publication, editors check that names, titles, company details, financial figures and quotes match the underlying sources. Breaking-news items are marked as developing and updated as facts firm up. When a claim cannot be independently verified, we say so.

Independence and conflicts

• Editorial decisions are made independently of commercial and advertising relationships.
• Sponsored content is clearly labelled "Sponsored" or "Partner content" and is not written by the newsroom.
• Contributors disclose material commercial or advisory relationships with companies they cover; where a conflict cannot be managed, the story is reassigned.

Use of AI

Articles on RetailNews Asia are researched, written and edited by journalists. We may use AI tools for narrowly defined support tasks — translation between English and Asian languages, transcription, summarisation of long public documents, metadata generation, and image resizing. AI is never the sole author of an article, and factual claims produced with AI assistance are verified by an editor before publication.

Bylines and author profiles

Every article carries a byline. Author profiles describe the correspondent's beat and background. Where an article was prepared by multiple contributors, additional credits appear at the foot of the story.

Corrections

We correct errors promptly and transparently. See our corrections policy for how to report an issue and how corrections are labelled.

Contact the newsroom

Story tips, feedback and formal complaints can reach the editorial desk via our contact page. We aim to acknowledge editorial complaints within two working days.