[https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/jimmy-lai-oriental-daily-dst-hnk-intl/index.html](https://edition.cnn.com/2020/09/04/media/jimmy-lai-oriental-daily-dst-hnk-intl/index.html) the story of the feud of the Hong Kong newspapers. In the late 1960's, two well-known opium traders from mainland China set up a newspaper in Hong Kong. After decades of bickering, the two rivals this summer are finally serving their day on the court. "Lai is not the editor, but he is the one who gives money to newspapers and a symbol of dissent. He is a symbol of media freedom, both in Hong Kong and in the Western world."

Lai Chee-Ying, better known as Jimmy Lai, is an entrepreneur from Hong Kong. He founded Giordano, an Asian fashion retail company, Next Digital, a Hong Kong-based media company and popular newspaper Apple Daily. In recent years, Lai has made bigger enemies than the Oriental Daily News, as he vigorously opposes Beijing's influence on Hong Kong. The septuagenarian is facing a slew of criminal charges, including several under Hong Kong's sweeping new national security law, which carries a maximum sentence of life imprisonment. and the other one is Ma Sik-yu.. In 1977, Hong Kong Police issued arrest warrants for two brothers who alleged they had smuggled 700 tonnes of heroin to Hong Kong between 1968 and 1974 from the Asian Golden Triangle.but he fled to the neighboring island of Taiwan, which has no extradition treaty with Hong Kong..

Why would you have a whole team of people being paid salaries for years on it and to follow around somebody you don't like?"