The New York Times will move its digital news operation out of Hong Kong in response to the city's contentious national security law

• The New York Times announced on Tuesday that it was moving its digital news operation out of Hong Kong and into Seoul, South Korea, in response to Hong Kong's sweeping national security law. 
• "China's sweeping new national security law in Hong Kong has created a lot of uncertainty about what the new rules will mean to our operation and our journalism," Times editors and executives wrote in a memo to staff on Tuesday. "We feel it is prudent to make contingency plans and begin to diversify our editing staff around the region."
• The Times joins a growing list of multinational companies that have reevaluated their presence in the city in response to the new law. 
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The New York Times announced on Tuesday that it was moving its digital news operation out of Hong Kong and into Seoul, South Korea, in response to Hong Kong's sweeping national security law. 

Last month, China unilaterally passed a new national security law for Hong Kong, which bans secession, subversion, terrorism, and collusion with a foreign country, in the name of China's national security. The maximum penalty for each crime is life in prison, with less than three years in prison suggested for minor offenses. 

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