{"id":36553,"date":"2021-09-07T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-international-companies-reconsider-future-in-wake-of-security-law"},"modified":"2021-09-07T09:00:15","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:00:15","slug":"hong-kong-international-companies-reconsider-future-in-wake-of-security-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36553","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong: international companies reconsider future in wake of security law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses reassess presence in territory amid curbs on movement and doubts about legal system\u2019s reliability, with many building up offices in Singapore<\/p>\n<p>International companies are being forced to reconsider their future in Hong Kong as China\u2019s crackdown on civil liberties and the freedom of media and tech companies continues to gather pace, according to leading business figures in the region.<\/p>\n<p>With businesses already facing restrictions because of the pandemic, the introduction of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/jun\/30\/controversial-hong-kong-national-security-law-comes-into-effect\">national security law last year<\/a> and the government shutdown of the pro-democracy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/jun\/23\/hong-kong-apple-daily-symbol-of-pro-democracy-movement-to-close\">Apple Daily newspaper<\/a> have sparked its biggest-ever exodus of people and rocked confidence in a city once synonymous with vibrant economic activity.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/sep\/07\/hong-kong-international-companies-reconsider-future-in-wake-of-security-law\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businesses reassess presence in territory amid curbs on movement and doubts about legal system\u2019s reliability, with many building up offices in SingaporeInternational companies are being forced to reconsider their future in Hong Kong as China\u2019s crackdow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":443,"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-36553","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\/36553","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\/443"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36554,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36553\/revisions\/36554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}