Hong Kong judges on Friday postponed the trial of Jimmy Lai until the pro-democracy media tycoon is provided with a heart monitoring device and related medication -- the second delay to the case this week.

The 77-year-old founder of the Apple Daily newspaper is charged with foreign collusion under Hong Kong's national security law, which Beijing imposed following huge and sometimes violent pro-democracy protests in 2019.

Closing arguments in the long-running trial were originally expected to begin Thursday, but all court sessions were suspended due to bad weather.

As court resumed Friday, defence lawyer Robert Pang told the court that Lai had heart "palpitations" and had experienced the feeling of "collapsing", but added that the tycoon didn't want attention to be concentrated on his he

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