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Not a good look. Though there will be some, maybe many, who will cheer this, because they think the owner, Jimmy Lai, is a dick. He is a bit, but shut down a paper because of it? Only authoritarian governments do that. Of course the new National Security Law is used as the cudgel. And Jimmy is in jail already —on sedition charges, iirc.
Cathay Pacific foreign staff are not having visas extended. They say it’s because there’s unemployment locally. Maybe. Or maybe just punishing Cathay cause its staff were vocal in the 2019 demos.
