Yahoo / Reuters: China arrests HK reporter on spying charge
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China formally arrested Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong on Friday on a charge of spying for rival Taiwan, the official Xinhua news agency said, the first such case since Hong Kong reverted to Chinese rule in 1997…
…Beijing public prosecutors approved Ching’s arrest by the Chinese capital’s State Security Bureau, Xinhua said, an indication that the 55-year-old China chief correspondent for the Singapore newspaper The Straits Times could be indicted soon.
The state news agency quoted unidentified sources as saying Ching confessed to spying for Taiwan during interrogation.
It said Ching received millions of Hong Kong dollars from Taiwan’s intelligence apparatus and used the money to buy unspecified information on China’s political, economic and military affairs between 2000 and 2005…