Jimmy Lai Gets a Taste of His Own Medicine

Posted by on Oct 16, 2014 in Blog | 0 comments

Next Media boss Jimmy Lai Chee-ying is considering seeking a court order to bar people from blockading  Apple Daily newspaper’s headquarters, Next Media’s host Li Wei-ling said.

Delivery of Apple Daily newspapers was delayed for a couple of hours yesterday after several dozen anti-Occupy protesters blocked all three entrances of its offices in Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate and  prevented trucks from entering or leaving the premises.

That came a day after protesters  appeared at Next Media’s headquarters on Chun Ying Street to rail against what they regarded as biased coverage of the Occupy movement by its newspaper.

Unable to clear the protesters by force, as there were children, the company used two  cranes mounted on trucks to move the newspapers.

A vendor in Mong Kok said he got just 30 copies of the paper, compared with 100 on a normal day.

– The Standard (HK)