A Bad Week for ... , October 20, 2013
Entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay was left shocked and more than 300 of his employees were left jobless after his Hong Kong Television Network was denied a free-to-air television licence.
Entrepreneur Ricky Wong Wai-kay was left shocked and more than 300 of his employees were left jobless after his Hong Kong Television Network was denied a free-to-air television licence. While PCCW and i-Cable were granted licences to compete with TVB and ATV, Wong could at least draw some solace from the level of public support, with hundreds of thousands of people "liking" a Facebook page supporting him and with thousands planning to protest today.
Nanjing mayor Ji Jianye became the latest mainland official to fall foul of a corruption inquiry, being investigated for suspected "economic crimes" and fired. Ji was said to have been implicated in the investigation of Zhu Xingliang, a businessman.
Former Hong Kong businessmen Franco Orr Yiu-kwan was jailed in Canada for 18 months for human trafficking, after his Filipino helper - who had travelled with the family when they moved countries - continued to work long after her tourist visa expired. A Canadian court heard that Orr forced the woman, Leticia Sarmiento, to work 16 hours a day, seven days a week, for almost two years.
