HONG KONG - The New York Times on Wednesday said it was moving its digital news hub from Hong Kong to South Korea as a result of a national security law Beijing imposed on the city.
"China's sweeping new national security law in Hong Kong has created a lot of uncertainty about what the new rules will mean to our operation and our journalism," executives wrote in an e-mail to staff, according to a news report published on the New York Times website. "We feel it is prudent to make contingency plans and begin to diversify our editing staff around the region."
China has imposed a law that criminalises subversion and other perceived offenses, sending a chill through the city that was promised a separate system before Britain handed back control in 1997. US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday he was ending trade preferences for Hong Kong and signed into law an act that authorises sanctions on banks over China’s clampdown in the city.
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