Ching Cheong, the recent released journalist talked on his innocence and health. From Shanghaiist: Ching Cheong, the chief China correspondent of the Singapore-based Straits Times that was jailed in China for supposed espionage...
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: Mainland authorities have rejected an application by the family of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong to seek legal representation for him, on the grounds that his case is still under investigation. Ching’s journalist wife, Mary Lau Man-yee, said she received a notice from the State Security […]
Read MoreFears of a looming media crackdown are growing in Hong Kong amid escalating efforts by authorities and pro-Beijing media to magnify the issue of “fake news” in the city. In February, Chief Executive Carrie Lam vowed...
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The Washington Post reports on a play that recently premiered in Hong Kong inspired by the brutal...
Read MorePresident Xi Jinping’s stance on political reform has divided China’s princeling community, according to Ching Cheong of Straits Times (via the Asia News Network (ANN)). A speech by Hu Dehua, son of the late...
Read MoreChing Cheong, Hong Kong-based correspondent for Straits Times, is retiring to write a book about his career, including the three years he spent in Chinese prison. From Asia Sentinel: Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong journalist who...
Read MoreJonathan Ansfield reports in the Newsweek: They had one amateur video, six peasants’ corpses and more than 10 eyewitnesses to the siege a day before. But on June 12, after Beijing News journalists were first at the scene...
Read MoreFrom Dui Hua Human Rights Journal: Hearing that Singapore Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong (程翔) had been released on parole earlier this month and allowed to return to Hong Kong, we noticed many similarities to the...
Read MoreA follow up to CDT’s previous post on Yu Huafeng, from Time’s The China Blog: Days after a Hong Kong reporter was released from a Chinese jail, another Chinese journalist has been freed. Yu Huafeng, an editor at the...
Read MoreReuters and RTHK are reporting that Straits Times reporter Ching Cheong has been freed from prison: China has freed Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong reporter for Singapore’s Straits Times sentenced to five years for spying for...
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