Pro-democracy Hong Kong newspaper halts shares after asset freeze, East Asia News & Top Stories


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HONG KONG (AFP) - Hong Kong's largest pro-democracy media group announced that it was halting share trading on Monday (May 17), two days after the authorities froze the assets of its jailed owner Jimmy Lai under a new national security law. Next Digital - which publishes the Apple Daily newspaper - said it would halt trading "pending the release of an announcement" about Lai's frozen assets, in a statement to the city's stock exchange. On Friday (May 14), the Hong Kong Security Bureau announced it was freezing Lai's shares in Next Digital as well as the contents of three of...