{"id":31583,"date":"2021-04-15T23:14:30","date_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31583"},"modified":"2021-04-15T23:14:30","modified_gmt":"2021-04-15T23:14:30","slug":"jimmy-lai-the-hong-kong-billionaire-risking-it-all-by-speaking-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/?p=31583","title":{"rendered":"Jimmy Lai: The Hong Kong billionaire risking it all by speaking out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Jimmy Lai is the billionaire owner of Hong Kong\u2019s last opposition newspaper, Apple Daily, and an outspoken critic of Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s one of the most high profile people to be arrested under Hong Kong&#8217;s new national security law, as China tightens its grip on the city.<\/p>\n<p>Yet far from being intimidated, he believes now is the time to make a stand for the city he loves. With remarkable access to Jimmy Lai, the BBC\u2019s Danny Vincent meets the man prepared to risk it all by speaking out.<\/p>\n<p>Producer: Ben Allen<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\\\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-china-56767127\\\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Lai is the billionaire owner of Hong Kong\u2019s last opposition newspaper, Apple Daily, and an outspoken critic of Beijing. He&#8217;s one of the most high profile people to be arrested under Hong Kong&#8217;s new national security law, as China tightens its grip on the city. Yet far from being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hindi-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09dth0p.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/31584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bengalnewstimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}