{"id":98612,"date":"2019-06-23T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98612"},"modified":"2019-06-23T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T07:00:00","slug":"hong-kongs-elite-fear-extradition-law-could-harm-their-reputation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=98612","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s elite fear extradition law could harm their reputation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders in the region take tentative steps in face of contentious billDays after Hong Kong\u2019s first major protest against its stalled extradition law, a property firm decided to take a \u00a32.5m hit and abandon an option to develop a slice of prime city land, blaming \u201csocial contradiction and economic instability\u201d.The decision by Goldin Financial Holdings was made after one of its directors, a pro-Beijing lawmaker called Abraham Shek Lai-him, called an urgent meeting to discuss whether to go ahead with the project on part of the old city airport. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/jun\/22\/hong-kong-business-elite-extradition-law-protest\" target=\"_blank\">Hong Kong\u2019s elite fear extradition law could harm their reputation<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Business leaders in the region take tentative steps in face of contentious billDays after Hong Kong\u2019s first major protest against its stalled extradition law, a property firm decided to take a \u00a32.5m hit and abandon an option to develop a slice of prime city land, blaming \u201csocial contradiction and economic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-98612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=98612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=98612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=98612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=98612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}