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Taipei, June 14 (CNA) Apple Online, the sister website of Hong Kong's now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, plans to lay off 280 employees in August, a Taipei Department of Labor official said Tuesday.
SAFETY ISSUE: An NPP member said that people who wrote under pseudonyms and criticized China might have their identities exposed and be put in dangerBy Yang Cheng-yu and Kayleigh Madjar / Staff reporter, with staff writer
The agency says it is closing after a 'difficult decision' to end its facts-focused journalistic work.
The National Security Council (NSC) should block any sale of the Apple Online news Web site to foreign owners backed by Chinese capital, as the news site could be used to influence domestic media or incriminate writers, the New Power Party (NPP) said yesterday. Apple Online, which is linked to Hong Kong’s shuttered Apple Daily newspaper, on Wednesday announced that it had secured new ownership, although it has not yet identified who is behind the deal. Citing sources from within Apple Online, Chinese-language media reported that Singaporean entrepreneur Joseph Phua (潘杰賢), cofounder of ...
Taipei, June 9 (CNA) Apple Online, the sister website of Hong Kong's now-defunct Apple Daily newspaper, has a new owner, but the deal depends on approval from the government of Taiwan and whether any Chinese capital was involved in the purchase.