2 Hong Kong Radio Hosts Go Off the Air
From Times Wire Reports
Two outspoken Hong Kong radio talk-show hosts critical of the territory’s pro-Beijing leaders have gone off the air within 10 days of each other, raising fears that freedom of speech is at risk.
On Raymond Wong’s radio program, a guest host read a statement that said Wong was “physically and mentally tired.” It did not say when he would return to the air.
Albert Cheng left his phone-in radio show last week. He cited Hong Kong’s “suffocating” political climate amid a row over the pace of democratic reforms.
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