From BBC News:
The trial of a Hong Kong journalist accused of spying for Taiwan has begun in China, according to media reports.
Ching Cheong, 56, the chief China correspondent for Singapore’s Straits Times, has been detained in China since April 2005.
China has accused him of buying information and passing it to Taiwan’s intelligence services over a period of five years from 2000 to March 2005.
Both his family and his employers have rejected the charges.
Mr Ching is the first Hong Kong journalist to be charged with spying since China resumed sovereignty over the territory in 1997. [Full Text]
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