Ailing Hong Kong market activist David Webb closing acclaimed 'Webb-site'

Investor flags risks to free economy as cancer forces him to end decades-old database

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Hong Kong activist investor David Webb, pictured in 2017, is known for his Webb-site database of corporate information. (Nikkei montage/Reuters)

KENJI KAWASE

HONG KONG -- David Webb, a well-known Hong Kong-based activist investor, is closing down a database of corporate and government information he has run for more than two decades due to the ravages of cancer.

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