A major tech conference has dropped plans to move to Malaysia and will remain in Hong Kong, organisers said Thursday, as the Southeast Asian nation faces a serious coronavirus outbreak.
The annual RISE Conference brings together CEOs, startups and investors and has already been held in Hong Kong for five years.
Organisers said last year they would move the Asia-focused conference to Kuala Lumpur in 2022, as tech firms fretted over Beijing's accelerating crackdown on dissent in Hong Kong.
But on Thursday they did a U-turn... Читать дальше...