Next Media dangles HK$1m carrot to hunt down attackers
Next Media is offering HK$1 million to track down the assailants and mastermind behind a recent series of attacks believed to be targeted at the news group. Group chairman Jimmy Lai Chee-ying yesterday said he and his group would not be scared off by such "childish acts".
Next Media is offering HK$1 million to track down the assailants and mastermind behind a recent series of attacks believed to be targeted at the news group.
The latest attack - the fourth in 13 days - came just hours after a machete was found outside the entrance to the Next Media building in Tseung Kwan O.
At about 12.30am yesterday, three armed masked men burned about 26,000 copies of yesterday's issue of the Chinese-language Apple Daily in Central.
The men pointed a knife at two workers in Edinburgh Place and poured flammable liquid on the newspapers before torching them, police said.
Next Media condemned the attacks. "[We are] offering a reward of HK$1 million to anyone who can provide information or clues that could lead directly to the detection of the cases," it said.