China Jails Singapore Reporter for Spying
Posted on: Wednesday, 30 August 2006, 21:55 CDT
HONG KONG (Reuters) - A Chinese court has jailed a reporter for a Singapore newspaper for five years for spying, Hong Kong cable television said on Thursday quoting China's state-run Xinhua news agency.
Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based China correspondent for the Straits Times, has been detained in China since April 2005 in a case that has highlighted Beijing's harsh control over the media.
Source: REUTERS
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