The Wall Street Journal will shift its Asia headquarters from Hong Kong to Singapore, it said on Thursday in a letter sent to staff and seen by AFP.
The Wall Street Journal 's front page from the one year anniversary of the arrest of Evan Gershkovich, a Wall Street Journal reporter who was arrested in March 2023 on spying charges in Russia, is displayed at the National Press Club on May 3, 2024 in Washington, DC.WASHINGTON, United States —
Announcing changes to the WSJ's Asia operations, Tucker wrote: "Some of these changes are structural: We are bringing together our business, finance and economics coverage. Some are geographic: We are shifting our center of gravity in the region from Hong Kong to Singapore, as many of the companies we cover have done."
Elsewhere in the region, the WSJ also has bureaus in Tokyo, New Delhi, Beijing, Seoul, Taiwan and Sydney. Tucker was named the first female editor of the New York-based newspaper in December 2022, starting in the role in February 2023. More than 290 people have been arrested, 174 charged and 114 convicted -- most of them prominent pro-democracy politicians, activists, and journalists -- since Beijing's security law was enacted.
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