{"id":909452,"date":"2026-07-03T08:53:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/909452\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T08:53:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T08:53:18","slug":"taiwans-leader-pays-tribute-to-hong-kong-bookseller-lam-wing-kee-after-his-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/909452\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiwan\u2019s leader pays tribute to Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee after his death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has said he is deeply saddened by the death of Hong Kong bookseller Lam Wing-kee, who publicly recounted being abducted and detained by mainland Chinese authorities in 2015.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Lam died at the age of 70 after a years-long battle with lung cancer, according to Taiwanese media.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Local reports said Lam, who moved to Taiwan in 2019, was admitted to Mackay Memorial Hospital in Taipei on Tuesday, but his condition worsened and he fell into a coma.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He was pronounced dead on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Lam Wing-kee at his Causeway Bay Books in Taipei in April 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/49b86686-c194-4cb0-a35b-f3fcd15b083f_759f8213.jpg\" title=\"Lam Wing-kee at his Causeway Bay Books in Taipei in April 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE\"\/>Lam Wing-kee at his Causeway Bay Books in Taipei in April 2020. Photo: EPA-EFE<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Last year, he disclosed that his lung adenocarcinoma had returned and advanced to stage four despite initial treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taiwanese leader William Lai Ching-te has said he is deeply saddened by the death of Hong Kong bookseller&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":909453,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[367851,367850,9124,8464,367853,28326,367852,35176,50,186340,367849,1956,1965,30723,299683,103],"class_list":["post-909452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-albert-ho-chun-yan","tag-causeway-bay-books","tag-democratic-party","tag-hong-kong","tag-lam-wing-kee","tag-lung-cancer","tag-mackay-memorial-hospital","tag-mainland-china","tag-news","tag-ningbo","tag-shaoguan","tag-shenzhen","tag-taipei","tag-taiwan","tag-tsai-ing-wen","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=909452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909452\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/909453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}