S'porean Dickson Yeo's detention: Renewed fears of China's online spy networks

Dickson Yeo has been detained under the Internal Security Act for two years. PHOTO: DICKSON YEO/FACEBOOK
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SINGAPORE - Agencies in the United States probing the clandestine activities of Singaporean Dickson Yeo showed he was not a small player.

In a press statement last year, the country's Department of Justice accused the Chinese government of using an "array of duplicity to obtain sensitive information from unsuspecting Americans".

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