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 […]
Read MoreDuring the Spring Festival gala on CCTV, viewers were asked to vote via SMS for the names for the pair of Pandas that the Chinese government has offered to Taiwan. Below are three news reports on the voting, followed by some critical comments from Chinese netizens: From The Shanghai Daily: Tuantuan and Yuanyuan are two […]
Read MoreFrom The South China Morning Post, via AsiaMedia: Supporters of Hong Kong journalist Ching Cheong yesterday called for his release after a deadline expired for his case to be passed onto a procuratorate at the weekend. The plea came as Chief Executive Donald Tsang Yam-kuen said in London his administration had done what it considered […]
Read MoreFrom the Straits Times, via Asia Media: A mainland woman falsely accused by some Hong Kong media publications of being the mistress of detained Straits Times journalist Ching Cheong is planning to sue them for libel. Ms Huang Wei said at a press conference in Hong Kong yesterday that she needed to seek redress for […]
Read MoreFrom The Standard: The mainland woman accused of luring Singapore’s Straits Times correspondent Ching Cheong to Shenzhen before his arrest on April 22, denied Thursday she was Ching’s mistress. Huang Wei, 42, who arrived in Hong Kong Wednesday, said in a Commercial Radio interview that Hong Kong media accusations are groundless and unfair to both […]
Read MoreFrom the Washington Post: China formally charged a prominent Hong Kong journalist with spying for Taiwan on Friday, ratcheting up a politically sensitive investigation that has also resulted in the arrest of a mainland scholar with ties to China’s president, Hu Jintao. The government decided to charge Ching Cheong, chief China correspondent for the Straits […]
Read MoreFrom The Times Online: China yesterday charged a journalist for a Singapore newspaper with spying for Taiwan, alleging that Ching Cheong had accepted hundreds of thousands of dollars to carry out espionage. The arrest of the veteran journalist, who has reported on China for more than 20 years and is familiar with numerous government officials […]
Read MoreFrom the South China Morning Post, via Asia Media: A group of activists petitioned the central government’s liaison office yesterday calling for the early release of Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong… About 500 people have signed an internet petition calling for Ching’s release during the past week, and the alliance plans to step up the […]
Read MoreFrom The Christian Science Monitor: When Ching Cheong left his wife, Mary Lau, in Hong Kong to cross the Chinese border 45 minutes away, he thought he was scoring a major publishing coup in Asia. Instead, he wound up in Chinese custody charged with espionage. According to Ms. Lau, her husband, a prominent Hong Kong […]
Read MoreFrom AP, via SFGate.com: China said Tuesday a reporter for Singapore’s main English-language newspaper has admitted to spying for a foreign intelligence agency, but his wife said he was arrested after a source gave him documents about purged former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang, who died this year. Ching Cheong of The Straits Times was […]
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