{"id":36491,"date":"2021-09-06T07:30:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T22:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/jimmy-lais-hong-kong-media-group-next-digital-files-for-liquidation"},"modified":"2021-09-06T21:51:40","modified_gmt":"2021-09-06T12:51:40","slug":"jimmy-lais-hong-kong-media-group-next-digital-files-for-liquidation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36491","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai\u2019s Hong Kong media group files for liquidation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staff<\/p>\n<p>Next Digital, a Hong Kong media group known for its criticism of Beijing, has filed for liquidation, with its board of directors resigning to help facilitate the process.<\/p>\n<p>Owned by the jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai, the group was the publisher of Apple Daily, a popular pro-democracy newspaper that closed in June after its newsroom was raided by police investigating whether some articles breached a national security law introduced by China last year.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/06\/jimmy-lais-hong-kong-media-group-next-digital-files-for-liquidation\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staffNext Digital, a Hong Kong media group known for its criticism of Beijing, has filed for liquidation, with its board of directors resigning to help&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"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":[41,50,48,238,2332,671,672,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-hong-kong","category-media","category-newspaper-closures","category-newspapers","category-newspapers-magazines","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\/36491","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36491"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36557,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36491\/revisions\/36557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}