A decision by the Hong Kong Economic Journal, one of the city's most read business newspapers, to cancel the column of a local hedge fund manager with pro-democracy views comes at a time of rising political tension with Beijing.
Edward Chin, who has written his weekly Chinese language column for the past nine years, was told it would be cancelled due to a redesign of the HKEJ an explanation Chin contests.
According to the HKEJ which is majority-owned by Richard Li, son of Li Ka-shing, Asia’s richest man Chin’s half-page columns became too focused on his political views rather than investment views....