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Dickson Yeo, a former student at the National University of Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, was sentenced to 14 months' jail last October in the US for being China's paid spy. He was arrested after returning to Singapore on Dec 30, and has since been detained under the Internal Security Act for two years.
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Zaihan Mohamed Yusof Senior Correspondent, Zaihan Mohamed Yusof
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".