Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai denied another bid for bail in national security case

Hong Kong’s High Court has denied another bail application made by media tycoon and Beijing critic Jimmy Lai, the most high-profile person to be charged under the Chinese-ruled city’s national security law.

The Court of Final Appeal ruled last week that a lower court’s decision last year to grant him bail applied “an erroneous line of reasoning,” but allowed Mr Lai’s team to make a new application for bail to the High…