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China Jails Australian for 13 Years

An Australian businessman along with his two associates were sentenced to prison on bribery and fraud charges. The businessman, Matthew Ng, is a Chinese-born Australian whose ties with a state-owned Chinese firm had soured last year. Ng is one of several Chinese-born Australians that have encountered legal problems in their business dealings in China. The New York Times reports: Mr. Ng was detained in November 2010 amid a dispute between a travel company he founded, Et-China,