Our latest investigation: how Taiwan became one of Russia’s most important suppliers of high-precision metalworking machines. Some of the machine tools were even acquired by nuclear research institutes and missile developers in Russia. 🧵
While most of the machine tool manufacturing countries from the West, such as Germany, ceased the exports to Russia following its invasion of Ukraine, Taiwan kept the business going and even saw significant increase in machine tool exports to Russia in 2022.
【香港蘋果日報被停刊:香港言論自由快速萎縮,親自由和民主派媒體首當其衝】
黎智英成立的壹傳媒(Next Media Group)(2015年10月更名為Next Digital Limited),在1990年3月發行雜誌《壹週刊》,在1995年6月20日創立《蘋果日報》,成為香港最暢銷的中文報紙之一,在香港單日最高銷售量有50多萬份。
高峰時期在2012年,集團合計約有5,000多名員工。當時它以全港首創的全彩色報紙印刷出版,打著「每日一蘋果,冇人呃到我(沒人能騙我)」的旗號,以大眾化、通俗的語言特色,配以搶眼、轟動的標題,快速拿下香港主流報紙的地位。