Hong Kong’s oldest university has moved to distance itself from its student union, reasserting control over the body’s facilities and cutting off its access to financial services over accusations that the “increasingly politicised” group used the campus to spread “propaganda”. The University of Hong Kong (HKU) said in a statement on Friday that the measures were “imperative” to clearly “define the legal responsibilities” of both the school’s management and the student union, which it accused of putting the institution in legal jeopardy.…

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