Jimmy Lai, the 71-year-old founder of Apple Daily, has forsaken his clothing business empire and endured death threats to pursue democracy in Hong Kong
Why pro-democracy troublemaker Jimmy Lai is the only Hong Kong multi-millionaire standing up to China By Jenni Marsh, CNNChat with us in Facebook Messenger. Find out what's happening in the world as it unfolds.
It all started after the Hong Kong business tycoon — a refugee from China — reinvented himself in the mid-1990s as the founder of the city's provocative, anti-Beijing tabloid, Apple Daily.One of the advertisements that introduced the newspaper to the world made Lai's point in the bluntest of ways: By showing Lai sitting in a dark warehouse with a red apple on his scalp, being pelted with incoming arrows fired by a shadowy figure.
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