Sydney (AFP) – Elaborate “virtual kidnappings” are being used to extort money from the friends and relatives of Chinese students Down Under, Australian police warned Monday, after a spate of transnational scams were reported. Police said that conmen claiming to be Chinese authorities had netted millions of US dollars in […]
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Dickson Yeo Jun Wei Yeo, an ambitious and freshly enrolled Singaporean PhD student, was no doubt delighted when he was invited to give a presentation to Chinese academics in Beijing in 2015. His doctorate research was about Chinese foreign policy and he was about to discover firsthand how the rising […]
consulate – Houston Chronicle A Singaporean man has admitted being an agent for Chinese intelligence, setting up a fake consulting firm in Washington as part of an elaborate plot to obtain information from US government and Pentagon officials. Jun Wei Yeo, 39, also known as Dickson Yeo, pleaded guilty to […]
BEIJING (AP) — In the global race to make a coronavirus vaccine, a state-owned Chinese company is boasting that its employees, including top executives, received experimental shots even before the government approved testing in people. “Giving a helping hand in forging the sword of victory,” reads an online post from […]