Jimmy Lai’s Hong Kong media group files for liquidation

Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staff

Next Digital, a Hong Kong media group known for its criticism of Beijing, has filed for liquidation, with its board of directors resigning to help facilitate the process.

Owned by the jailed tycoon Jimmy Lai, the group was the publisher of Apple Daily, a popular pro-democracy newspaper that closed in June after its newsroom was raided by police investigating whether some articles breached a national security law introduced by China last year.