Sin Chew Daily
The site began with a staff of five journalists and a starting budget of $100,000. Gan served as its editor-in-chief. For its first story, "Malaysiakini" posted a report on 20 November criticising the practices of "Sin Chew Daily", Malaysia's largest-circulation Chinese-language newspaper. "Sin Chew Daily" had doctored a photograph of Malaysia's ruling party to remove Anwar Ibrahim, who had recently been imprisoned for corruption.