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Asia Sentinel
Startup appears likely to take over local destinations
7 hr ago
By: Tim Hamlett
These are fasten-your-seatbelt times for Cathay Pacific, long regarded as Hong Kong’s flagship of the skies, although its majority owners are in London.
The airline is not exactly loved. Its ruthless personnel policies take care of that: swathes of employees are jettisoned in any sort of financial turbulence. More recently the airline’s wi…
Asia Sentinel
Boon to money-launderers or privacy issue?
Apr 9
By: Tim Hamlett
It would be nice to think the Hong Kong government had stumbled into its recently-announced decision to protect the identities of businesspeople in the Companies Registry out of a well-intentioned effort to protect them from doxing, the practice of exposing identities without permission.
But there is an old saying in military circles: if something bad happens once it is a misfortune; twice is a coincidence; three times is enemy action. The attempt to curb access to the Companies Registry comes soon after the prosecution of an investigative journalist for using information about vehicle registration supplied to the public by the Transport Department to identify the masked perpetrators of attacks on pro-democracy demonstrators in 2019. That was followed by the news that court sheets are to be purged of the identifying details of defendants and other participants, including the prosecutor. This will be