{"id":31018,"date":"2021-04-17T01:11:11","date_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-media-empire-face-uncertain-future"},"modified":"2021-04-17T01:11:11","modified_gmt":"2021-04-16T16:11:11","slug":"hong-kongs-jimmy-lai-and-his-media-empire-face-uncertain-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=31018","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Jimmy Lai and his media empire face uncertain future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Tycoon and pro-democracy activist\u2019s 14-month jail sentence is only the start of his problems<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/jimmy-lai-martin-lee-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-sentenced\">Hong Kong pro-democracy figures given jail terms of up to 18 months<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sentencing of the high-profile Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai may offer a foretaste both of his own future and of the media empire he built.<\/p>\n<p>For the 73-year-old tycoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/jimmy-lai-martin-lee-hong-kong-pro-democracy-figures-sentenced\">the 14-month prison sentence<\/a> handed down on Friday is only the start. He faces six remaining charges, two of which relate to the new national security law, which is deemed draconian by pro-democracy activists but which Beijing argues is necessary.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/apr\/16\/hong-kong-jimmy-lai-media-empire-face-uncertain-future\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Analysis: Tycoon and pro-democracy activist\u2019s 14-month jail sentence is only the start of his problemsHong Kong pro-democracy figures given jail terms of up to 18 monthsThe sentencing of the high-profile Hong Kong activist Jimmy Lai may offer a foretas&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2096,"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":[41,50,48,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","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\/31018","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\/2096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31019,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31018\/revisions\/31019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}