Hong Kong’s pro-democracy paper Apple Daily will close

Next Digital, the parent of Hong Kong’s Apple Daily, announced Wednesday that its printed paper and digital news site will close down no later than 11:59 p.m. Saturday. The decision was made after police arrested five editors and executives and froze $2.3 million in assets linked to the paper last week. Hong Kong Free Press reported that the paper made the decision on the same day that the paper’s editorial writer was arrested under the controversial security law.-- More...