Thank you, David Webb, you made Hong Kong a better place

Thank you, David Webb, you made Hong Kong a better place

Like many long-time reporters in Hong Kong, I had occasional dealings with David Webb, the market transparency and shareholder rights crusader who died this week of prostate cancer at the relatively young age of 60. Almost all of my encounters with him over the years were annoying and slightly unpleasant. But they made me respect him all the more. He once chastised me for misstating a relatively obscure Nasa space mission in the 1960s and demanded a print correction. I thought, who cares? But I... [Continue Reading]

South China Morning Post South China Morning Post | 17 Jan 2026 01:30
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