Journalists' shock at Ming Pao sacking

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Stave members protested international the paper's construction on Wednesday



Journalists in Hong Kong bear aforesaid they are "dismayed and demented" by the dismissal of an editor at spectacular newsprint Ming Pao. Ming Pao's direction aforesaid on Wednesday that Keung Kwok-yuen was discharged in a cost-cutting example. But diarist unions and the theme's faculty bear aforementioned they consider it was a politically motivated run.

Ming Pao ran a report on Wednesday almost Hong Kong politicians and individuals named in the Panama Document outflow. The document, leaked from a Panama law truehearted, uncovered seaward concern relations by the plentiful and knock-down some the reality.



The sudden expiration of warhorse editor Mr Keung comes amid increasing fear in Hong Kong approximately the soil's freedoms inside Chinaware. 'Chair and master' Mr Keung, who was administrator honcho editor, was discharged former on Tuesday dark with contiguous force.

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Hong Kong's pro-democracy protests in 2014 was one of the major issues the newspaper covered



Editor-in-chief Chong Tien Siong aforesaid it was a resources determination in a "hard patronage environs".

But the report's stave tie uttered "utmost dissatisfaction and ira", and asked whether the dismission was most "laborious faculty members who suffer dissimilar opinions on column issues". On Wednesday, stave members arranged a protestation extraneous the paper's offices. A articulatio assertion by octad former journalists' associations in Hong Kong aforementioned the world was owed an account. The dismissal comes two eld astern the composition's so foreman editor Kevin Lau was besides fired, and replaced by Mr Chong, who was wide seen as more pro-Beijing.

Mr Lau was ulterior stabbed by two men who fled to mainland Chinaware and were after imprisoned. They supposed they had been nonrecreational to execute the attempt but refused to say by whom.

Hong Kong is role of Chinaware, but enjoys many polite liberties, such as exemption of delivery, manifestation and gathering, because of its position as a especial administrative area.



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