Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has denied colluding with a retired US diplomat to allow Washington’s intervention in Hong Kong affairs, but said he had maintained contact with the ex-official as he valued his advice and considered their friendship “beneficial” despite the national security law. Lai told his high-profile trial on Tuesday that James…
Former media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying has conceded he was “too optimistic” to have once believed in Hong Kong’s future as a financial hub under the national security law, while dismissing “presumptuous” allegations that he foresaw his arrest would trigger foreign intervention. Lai, 77, also said on Thursday he did not believe the central and…
A self-proclaimed Taoist priest has been jailed for life for murdering an intellectually impaired woman who died after being repeatedly assaulted as part of a series of “exorcism” rituals in Hong Kong five years ago. Chinese medicine practitioner Dunsany Cheung Chi-choi, 54, was also sentenced on Friday to 10 years in prison for sexually assaulting…