Ex-Hong Kong bookseller to open store in Taiwan | #Asia - NHK WORLD

A former manager of a Hong Kong bookstore that sold titles critical of the Chinese Communist Party is set to reopen the store in Taiwan.

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Lam Wing-kee was detained by Chinese authorities along with other people linked to the Hong Kong store five years ago.

He was later released and returned to Hong Kong and hoped to reopen the bookstore there.

But he gave up the idea last year after the Hong Kong government submitted a bill that would enable criminal suspects to be sent to mainland China...

Lam says the store will open next Saturday in central Taipei.
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Source: NHK WORLD