Topline: Billionaire Li Ka-shing says he regretted that his comments on the Hong Kong protests had been misrepresented after facing harsh criticism from a Chinese government agency on social media and in China’s state-owned media. Hong Kong’s richest man had reportedly appealed to the city’s government to offer an “olive branch” to the pro-democracy movement in a bid to end the five-month long political crisis. Li Ka-shing issued a statement on Friday via his foundation after China’s Central Political and Legal Affairs Commission reportedly accused him of “harboring criminals” in a Weibo post. The criticism was echoed in the People’s...