Hong Kong’s High Court has ordered that Jimmy Lai’s Next Digital Limited – the parent company of now-defunct Apple Daily – must be wound up. Provisional liquidators reporting to the court on Wednesday will now take over proceedings to wind up the company. In a rare move, Hong Kong’s Financial Secretary Paul Chan demanded that the group – founded by jailed pro-democracy media tycoon Jimmy Lai – be dissolved. He cited “public interests” in September. As the company did not send any of its own representatives, Next Digital Limited was represented by two government lawyers from the Department of J…

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