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

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