The defence should be allowed to call a witness to the stand for a second time “in the interests of justice,” the lawyer for jailed media tycoon Jimmy Lai has argued at the landmark national security trial. But his submission drew the ire of the three judges presiding over the case, who questioned the defence’s […]
Lai Ching-te will have to deal with a China that has ramped up pressure – including almost daily military incursions near its airspace – on democratic Taiwan to accept its sovereignty, a claim strongly rejected by Taipei
The group say their names have been cited dozens of times during the trial of the media mogul.
By Dene-Hern Chen Taiwan’s president-elect Lai Ching-te, a staunch defender of the island’s democracy, will be sworn into office Monday as Beijing ratchets up military and diplomatic pressure on Taipei. China, which claims Taiwan as part of its territory, has branded Lai a “dangerous separatist” who will bring “war and decline” to the self-ruled island. […]
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A key prosecution witness in Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai’s national security trial who earlier admitted lying to police said he started being truthful as he no longer wanted the lies to weigh on his “conscience.” Chan Tsz-wah, a paralegal charged alongside Lai, took to the witness stand on Monday for the 12th day. […]
By Dene-Hern Chen and Amber Wang The incoming Taiwanese president’s best strategy to stop China from seizing the self-ruled island will likely be to bolster an agile defensive “porcupine” approach by spending more on missiles and drones. Lessons learned from Russia’s war in Ukraine about how rapidly developing drones can outfox traditional heavy weaponry suggest […]
A group of current, and former, foreign politicians say they have demanded to be called as witnesses in the landmark national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai. Members of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China, who come from nine countries, include Japan’s former defence minister Gen Nakatani and Iain Duncan Smith – a former UK […]
A judge presiding over Jimmy Lai’s national security case has warned the prosecution not to make unfounded allegations against the media mogul’s lawyers, after a prosecutor suggested that the defence had deliberately withheld questions related to Apple Daily staff’s messaging records. The judges on Monday handled an application from the defence to re-summon Cheung Kim-hung, […]
A police officer has denied persuading Cheung Kim-hung, the former publisher at Apple Daily, to testify against his former boss Jimmy Lai in Lai’s national security trial. Per the defence’s request, the prosecution summoned an officer from the police National Security Department to the witness stand on Thursday. Lai Kwok-yung is the first of five […]
The top US diplomat in Hong Kong has called for the release of media mogul Jimmy Lai and other detained activists, sparking a complaint from Beijing’s foreign ministry of interference in China’s internal affairs. US Consul General Gregory May made “unfounded comments” on Hong Kong’s judicial cases in an online seminar hosted by the Center […]
The parent company that owns the Apple Daily newspaper saw an improvement in its financial situation in the months ahead of a police raid, arrests, and its eventual shutdown, the national security trial of media mogul Jimmy Lai has heard. Royston Chow, the former chief financial officer of Next Digital, took to the witness stand […]