Without Apple Daily, Hong Kong Would Not Have Been the Same

In 2000, I returned to Hong Kong after finishing a postgraduate diploma in journalism at the University of Sheffield. When I was in the UK, I had interned at the Financial Times, learning from other colleagues of <a href="http://ft.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">FT.com</a> on how to write the euro-dollar trend. My colleagues at that time asked me if I would stay in the UK or return to Hong Kong. I was very young. I didn’t know how to respond. All I wanted was to reunite with my family in Hong Kong. Before returning to Hong Kong, I applied for the cadetship at the South China Morning Post (SCMP), the city’s oldest and largest English newspaper. I was lucky to get the job. I still remember that the then-deputy editor of SCMP asked me during the interview how I thought of Apple Daily (the then-most popular Chinese newspaper in Hong Kong that was forced to fold in 2021 and the paper’s founder Jimmy Lai and several other senior executives were arrested and charged with national security charges after the Hong Kong version of National Security Law was imposed by the Chinese government in 2020). <a href="https://patrickpoon.medium.com/without-apple-daily-hong-kong-would-not-have-been-the-same-94b387c04fdb">Click Here</a>