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Hong Kong prosecutors have slapped jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai CheeYing with an extra count of fraud ahead of his trial alongside a former Apple Daily executive over the use of the defunct newspaper’s office space. Lai, 74, and former chief administrative officer Wong WaiKeung, 60, initially faced a joint count of fraud for allegedly defrauding a government-owned enterprise by...
Ex-security chief who spent decades in the police has indicated he will put security above all else as chief executive.
15th April 2020 - The head of China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, calls for the rapid passing of a national security law designed to eradicate the territory’s pro-democracy movement. 28th May 2020 - The National People’s Congress, China’s parliament, passes the Hong Kong National Security Law which punishes with a life sentence four vaguely-defined “crimes
The election is scheduled for May 8. . Read more at straitstimes.com.
(Bloomberg) -- Hong Kong’s election season officially begins Sunday, and despite a near-two month delay in proceedings due to a Covid crisis, it’s still wildly unclear who actually wants the city’s top job. That’s about to change.