Trending News
Search results for: "Hong Kong". 23 articles found.
A Hong Kong court sentences the 78-year-old British citizen Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after he was found guilty of national security offences last December.
Lai's supporters say this amounts to a death sentence, but authorities say it demonstrates the rule of law.
Tech Meme - 2 hours 53 min agoJulia Zhong / Bloomberg : Chinese chip designer Montage raised $902M in its Hong Kong IPO, jumping 64% in its market debut, the biggest rise since Kuaishou's $6.2B Hong Kong IPO in 2021 — Shares of Montage Technology Co. jumped 64% in their Hong Kong debut on Monday after a share sale that raised $902 million …...
ABC News - 3 hours 13 min agoThe sentencing of Hong Kong's onetime media magnate Jimmy Lai is raising concerns from foreign governments and rights groups...
Jimmy Lai at his home in Hong Kong in 2020.
NPR - 4 hours 6 min agoA Hong Kong court sentenced 78-year-old activist and publisher Jimmy Lai to 20 years in prison after finding him guilty under China's national security law.
Law Wai-kwong, center right, and his colleagues sitting in Apple Daily's newsroom in 2020. The newspaper was shuttered the following year.
Exclusive: Home Office ruling means thousands more Hongkongers will be eligible to come to the UK over next five years Ministers have opened up visas to thousands more people from Hong Kong in the wake of the 20-year prison sentence handed down to the pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai. Adult children of British National (Overseas) status-holders who were under 18 at the time of Hong Kong's 1997 handover to China will be eligible to apply for the route independently of their parents, a Home Office...
China critic and former media tycoon Jimmy Lai is sentenced to 20 years in a Hong Kong security case
NPR - 6 hours 6 min agoJimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced on Monday to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent.
The pro-democracy media tycoon was sentenced to 20 years in jail by the Hong Kong High Court.
Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon and a fierce critic of Beijing, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city's dissent, the AP reports. Lai, 78, was convicted in...
ABC News - 8 hours 1 min agoProminent democracy advocate Jimmy Lai was a child stowaway from mainland China who rose to become Hong Kong's onetime media magnate. Unlike other rags-to-riches tycoons who cultivated ties with Beijing, he chose to become its fierce critic. The 78-year-old founder of the now-defunct Apple Daily, a newspaper known for critical reports against both the Hong Kong and Beijing governments, was sentenced to 20 years in prison Monday for his conviction under a China-imposed national security law....
A Hong Kong court on Monday sentenced Jimmy Lai, a prominent pro-democracy figure and the founder of the now-defunct progressive Apple Daily, to 20 years in prison.
Jimmy Lai, who has been jailed for 20 years, always said he owed Hong Kong, a city that had given him "everything".
Shares of Chinese chip designer Montage Technology surged 57% in its Hong Kong trading debut on Monday following an initial share sale that raised $902 million.
Lai, who had pleaded not guilty to all charges, was among the first prominent figures arrested under Beijing's security law in August 2020.
Mr. Lai walking through the Stanley Prison in Hong Kong in 2023.
Observers fear that conviction under national security law could come under the most severe penalty band of 10 years to life imprisonment. Follow the latest developments, live Jimmy Lai faces sentencing over national security charges Here are some images of Jimmy Lai at pro-democracy protests across Hong Kong over the years: Progressing from child labourer to billionaire, Jimmy Lai used his power and wealth to promote democracy, which ultimately pitted him against authorities in Beijing. Continue...
Sebastian Lai, center, son of Jimmy Lai, held a news conference outside Downing Street in London last year.
Jimmy Lai was arrested under the national security law in Hong Kong in 2020.
The media tycoon, who was first arrested in 2020, could face life in prison in blow for press freedom following conviction in December Jimmy Lai, the Hong Kong media tycoon and pro-democracy figure, is set to be sentenced on Monday in the financial hub's most high-profile national security case, amid growing calls to free the longstanding critic of the Chinese Communist party whose health is frail. The sentence comes after a legal saga spanning almost five years for the founder of the now-shuttered...
Pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after being convicted of national security offences in Hong Kong.
The UK foreign secretary has said a jail term handed down by a Hong Kong court to pro-democracy campaigner Jimmy Lai is "tantamount to a life sentence".
GET IN TOUCH
About
Snips is the first performance-based influencer marketing platform that empowers influencers with business tools to grow their audience and monetize their social networks, while enabling brands to run performance-driven influencer programs built on true measurability & scale.