News - Ching Cheong
The following is a selection of quotes from editorials and commentaries carried in 10-11 February 2008 website editions of mainland Chinese, Hong Kong and Taiwan newspapers and news portals available to BBC Monitoring. Unless otherwise stated, the quotes are in Chinese.
A Hong Kong journalist imprisoned in China after being convicted of spying for Taiwan was given early release Tuesday, Hong Kong officials said. Ching Cheong, 58, was sentenced to five years in jail in August 2006.
Text of report by Singapore newspaper The Straits Times website on 5 February Hong Kong: China has freed Mr Ching Cheong, The Straits Times' Hong Kong-based correspondent who was jailed for espionage activities in 2006, Chinese government officials said on Tuesday [5 February].