Hong Kong bookseller held in China raises US$100,000 to open Taiwan store

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A Hong Kong bookseller who disappeared into Chinese custody for half a year raised nearly $100,000 in less than a day on Friday as he tries to ...

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Their disappearance - and the abduction of a billionaire from a five-star hotel by suspected Chinese agents - caused widespread alarm in Hong Kong.Lam launched an online crowd-funding campaign late Thursday to open a bookstore in Taiwan. "Many thanks for everyone's support ... thank you for giving me more confidence to accomplish this," Lam said in a message on a Facebook page for his bookstore project.Lam was the man who blew the whistle on what happened to the missing booksellers.

 

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