Ching Cheong was a reporter for the Singapore-based Straits Times. In 2005, he went to China on a permit to research former Communist Party leader Zhao Ziyang. On April 22, he was charged with espionage and on Aug. 31, 2006, got five years in prison.
Ching Cheong
From Bridget Johnson, for About.com
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