China jails Singapore reporter for spying

HONG KONG, Aug 31 (Reuters) A Chinese court has jailed a reporter for a Singapore newspaper for five years for spying, Hong Kong cable television said today quoting China's state-run Xinhua news agency.

Ching Cheong, a Hong Kong-based China correspondent for the Straits Times, has been detained in China since April 2005 in a case that has highlighted Beijing's harsh control over the media.

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