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Hong Kong’s defunct newspaper Apple Daily, founded byjailed media mogul Jimmy Lai, may be able to pay HK$49 million to more than 500 former staff, a court has heard in a winding-up petition hearing. The High Court on Wednesday heard an application from two former employees of Apple Daily Limited, who urged the court to wind up the company that ceased operations in June 2021 after its senior executives were arrested and later charged under the national security law. Local media reported that the liquidation request was filed on April 12 by Chan Hon-wing and Yeung Yu-ching, who claimed that more...
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The executive editor of The New York Times has criticised the “corrosive effect” of Hong Kong’s national security laws on press freedom during a journalism awards ceremony in the city, but said that local news media continued to produce impactful coverage despite facing such challenges. Speaking at the ceremony for the Society of Publishers in Asia awards on Thursday evening, Joseph Kahn said journalists in Hong Kong had to navigate “potential red lines” since Beijing imposed a security law on the city in 2020 and further security legislation was enacted in March. Kahn cited a recently-release...
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A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who come from nine countries, include Japan’s former defence minister Gen Nakatani and Iain Duncan Smith – a former UK Conservative party leader who has been sanctioned by China. In a letter seen by the BBC, the group say they have been cited over 50 times during the hearings yet have never been formally contacted to submit evidence. “[W]e now have an opportunity to see how fa...
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The parent company that owns the Apple Daily newspaper saw an improvement in its financial situation in the months ahead of a police raid, arrests, and its eventual shutdown, the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Royston Chow, the former chief financial officer of Next Digital, took to the witness stand for the third day on Thursday. He was arrested under the national security law in June 2021 alongside Lai and other Apple Daily executives, but was granted immunity by the prosecution in exchange for testifying against the tycoon in the present trial and in a separate ...
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Hong Kong has again ranked low in a global press freedom index, as a watchdog cited an “unprecedented series of setbacks” including newsroom closures and journalist arrests under Beijing’s national security law. The city placed 135 out of 180 countries and territories in the Reporters Without Borders (RSF)’s annual press freedom ranking, released on Friday to mark World Press Freedom Day. Sandwiched between the Philippines and South Sudan in the ranking, Hong Kong continued to be among the few developed places to place poorly. Its press freedom ranking rose five places from last year’s 140. Bu...
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