Bloomberg Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, who was charged earlier this month with colluding with foreign forces under city’s new national security law, resigned as chairman of Next Digital Ltd, the company he founded said in a filing on Tuesday. Lai, 73, tendered his resignation “in order to spend more time dealing with his personal affairs,” according to the ...

Bloomberg US President Donald Trump’s campaign to cut North Korea’s economy off from the world worked. But it also may have accelerated Kim Jong Un’s efforts to build a military less reliant on foreign support. The North Korea awaiting President-elect Joe Biden is more dangerous and more self-reliant, possessing at least three different intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear ...

Bloomberg Croatia suffered its strongest earthquake in 140 years — for the second time in 2020 — with the tremor devastating the city at its epicenter, killing at least one person and rattling Europeans as far away as Rome and Vienna. The temblor, measured at 6.3 by the European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre on Tuesday, was larger than both a 5.2 quake ...