Tag: Apple Daily

US Congress Report Shows CCP Has Turned Hong Kong Into a City of Fear

On Sept. 4, the U.S. Congressional and Executive Committee on China (CECC) released a report (pdf) titled “Hong Kong’s Civil Society: From an Open City to a City of Fear.” The report cover shows logos of various civil organizations or groups that have been dissolved or disbanded in the past two years. These organizations include the…


Apple Daily Founder Jimmy Lai Pleads Not Guilty of Colluding With Foreign Forces and Might Be Sentenced to Jail for Life

Six former Apple Daily executives have been charged with “conspiracy to print, publish, sell, offer to sell, distribute, display or reproduce a seditious publication.” They are former CEO of Next Media, Cheung Kim-hung; former Vice-President, Law Wai-kwong; former Executive Editor-in-Chief, Lam Man-chung; former English Chief Writer, Lo Fung (pen name); and Chinese Writer, Lee Ping…


6 Former Apple Daily Executives Charged With Violating National Security Law Will Plead Guilty

A case hearing was conducted in the High Court of Hong Kong on Aug. 21, for Lai Chee-ying (Jimmy Lai), the founder of the former newspaper outlet Next Media, and three other companies linked to Apple Daily, who was suspected of collusion with foreign countries or foreign forces. The court revealed that six other defendants,…


Surviving the Storm in Hong Kong

Commentary By the time this article is out, Hong Kong would have already been hit by a tropical storm Ma-On (馬鞍) that will bring already a “quiet” Hong Kong to a standstill. Damages done by a typhoon are acute, and the city always recovers and goes back to normalcy. But for those who still remain…


Writer Shi Shan Shares a Place Called Home After Trekking Around the World for Almost 20 Years

If you meet Shi Shan for the first time, you will not have guessed he is from mainland China, as he doesn’t carry himself so. Curiously, I asked him once where he was from, and where his home was. Shi was a bit stunned, but his response probably resonates with more people than he realized….


PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET: The China Model Delusion and the West’s Useful Idiots—Former Apple Daily Columnist Simon Lee

This episode will premiere on Thursday, August 4 at 7:30 p.m. ET.  “Jimmy [Lai] once told me, ‘The fight for freedom is a very lonely pursuit…You have to be prepared to be very lonely.’” Simon Lee was a successful businessman in Hong Kong and a columnist at Jimmy Lai’s Apple Daily newspaper for over a…


Apple Daily’s News Clippings Deleted From Hong Kong Libraries; ‘June 4’ Disappearing From Library Search

According to Article 27 of the Basic Law, Hong Kong residents have the right to freedom of speech, freedom of the press, and freedom to publish. However, under the new political situation, the authorities have been secretly removing a large number of books and news reports without disclosing the relevant lists. Apple Daily was the…


In Remembrance of Apple Daily

June 20, 1995 was the first print edition of Apple Daily in Hong Kong. June 24, 2021 was the last print run of Apple Daily. The raid of Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily and Next Magazine in Cheung Kwan O by 500 police in June last year, has been more than surreal….


Restructuring Hong Kong’s Civil Society: From the Perspective of Food Trucks

Commentary “Repower Hkers: Reviving Civic Rights for Hongkongers,” a seven-session forum held in a school in Hayes, London on June 11 and 12, 2022, hosted by the newly founded Association of Overseas Hong Kong Media Professionals, discussed the disintegration of civil society in Hong Kong and the ways Hongkongers might face such changes. It was…


World Press Freedom Index: Hong Kong Ranking Drops Precipitously in 2022

World Press Freedom Day was celebrated on May 3. That same day, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the international non-governmental organization, released its 2022 World Press Freedom Index showing Hong Kong ranked at a record low. It had fallen the furthest of any country from 80th place last year to 148th place today. RSF’s 2022 edition of the…