The colorful life of former Next Media founder Jimmy Lai Chee-ying resembles a plot from a novel. He founded Next Media and Apple Daily, supported democratic movements, and changed the Hong Kong media ecosystem. Some people might feel that Lai is a big bad wolf in the media industry; they might think that he would do…
Standing Trial in Unjust Hong Kong
Commentary Let us go back in time to the world of 2020 and 2021 in Hong Kong to the raids of Next Digital, the parent company of Apple Daily and Next Magazine, in Cheung Kwan O on Aug. 10, 2020, and June 17, 2021, when more than 300 and 500 police turned up to clamp…
Misplaced Hope for Hong Kong’s Future
Commentary By the time this article is published, the last quarter countdown is on: we have less than 100 days before 2022 comes to an end. In today’s article, I try to recap important news in Hong Kong that has recently caught people’s attention. The Hong Kong government just announced the relaxation of COVID-19 quarantine…
Former US Secretary of State Pompeo’s Sends ‘Message to Chinese People’
September 14, 2022
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now has an online series where he is aiming to speak directly to the people of China about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and U.S.-China relations. The series, “Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People,” by the Hudson Institute’s China Center went online with…
Former US Secretary of State Pompeo Sends ‘Message to the Chinese People’
September 14, 2022
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo now has an online series where he is aiming to speak directly to the people of China about the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and U.S.-China relations. The series, “Evening Chats with Mike Pompeo: A Message to the Chinese People,” by the Hudson Institute’s China Center went online with…
Apple Daily Founder Jimmy Lai Pleads Not Guilty of Colluding With Foreign Forces and Might Be Sentenced to Jail for Life
September 2, 2022
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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…
Hong Kong Court Upholds Warrant on Tycoon Jimmy Lai’s Phones
HONG KONG—Hong Kong’s High Court on Tuesday upheld a new warrant obtained by the national security police to search the contents of media tycoon Jimmy Lai’s phones. In one of the former British colony’s biggest national security cases, Lai and six former Apple Daily staff members were charged with so-called collusion with foreign forces under…
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…
PREMIERING 7:30 PM ET: The China Model Delusion and the West’s Useful Idiots—Former Apple Daily Columnist Simon Lee
August 4, 2022
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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…
Samuel Chu on Hong Kong’s Future: ‘Once People Have Tasted Freedom, You Can’t Tell Them to Forget It’
May 4, 2022
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Hong Kong’s upcoming executive election has just one candidate. This Sunday, the city will “choose” its next chief executive. Meanwhile, the Chinese communist regime continues to clamp down on the ever-shrinking freedoms in the city. Why do the people of Hong Kong continue to fight for change? I speak with Samuel Chu, a Hong Kong…
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