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Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Business
Erin Hale

Wall Street Journal cuts Hong Kong staff, shifts focus to Singapore

Hong Kong has seen an exodus of firms and residents during the past few years [Tyrone Siu/Reuters]

Hong Kong, China – The Wall Street Journal has announced staff cuts at its Hong Kong bureau as it shifts its “center of gravity in the region” to Singapore, marking the latest blow to the financial hub’s once-thriving media industry.

Editor-in-chief Emma Tucker told staff in a company-wide memo on Thursday that the newspaper was following the same path that “many of the companies we cover have done”.

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