{"id":19902,"date":"2020-07-01T02:57:32","date_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-government-hires-london-pr-firm-to-improve-image"},"modified":"2020-07-01T02:57:32","modified_gmt":"2020-06-30T17:57:32","slug":"hong-kong-government-hires-london-pr-firm-to-improve-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=19902","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong government hires London PR firm to improve image"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consulum\u2019s contract coincides with China passing a harsh new security law for the territory<\/p>\n<p>The Hong Kong government has agreed to pay millions of pounds to a discreet London-based PR firm in a bid to counter coverage of the territory in the international media.<\/p>\n<p>Consulum, which has also represented Saudi leader <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/oct\/19\/saudi-arabia-pays-uk-firms-millions-to-boost-image\">Mohammed bin Salman<\/a>, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.info.gov.hk\/gia\/general\/202006\/29\/P2020062900376.htm\">awarded the \u00a35m one-year contract<\/a> to improve Hong Kong\u2019s reputation on Monday \u2013 the same day that China passed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/china-passes-controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law\">new security law<\/a> targeting local pro-democracy activists.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/hong-kong-government-hires-london-pr-firm-to-improve-image\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consulum\u2019s contract coincides with China passing a harsh new security law for the territoryThe Hong Kong government has agreed to pay millions of pounds to a discreet London-based PR firm in a bid to counter coverage of the territory in the internation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,48,238,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1412"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19902"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19903,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19902\/revisions\/19903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}