Zheng Siru, 31, a 25-year-old man known by the court-issued pseudonym Joseph Vance, and a woman given the name Thomas Tyler were arrested by Australian Federal Police over recent months and charged ...

Two Chinese nationals have been arrested in Australia for allegedly spying on a Buddhist organisation that has been questionably labelled by China as an 'evil cult'. Australian Federal Police arrested ...

Two Canberra residents alleged to be Chinese spies operated like high school students in their surveillance of a religious centre in Australia, a court has heard. Australian Federal Police arrested a ...

The pair -- a 25-year-old man and a 31-year-old woman -- have each been charged with one count of "reckless foreign interference", which carries a maximum penalty of 15 years' imprisonment. When the ...

CANBERRA — Australian police said on Wednesday they had charged two Chinese citizens with foreign interference, accusing them of spying on a Buddhist group at the behest of law enforcers in China. The ...

Two Chinese nationals are behind bars accused of covertly gathering information on a Buddhist group in Canberra. Police arrested the pair more than six months after another Chinese national was ...

Police in Australia have charged two Chinese nationals with "foreign interference" under a 2018 law. The pair is alleged to have gathered information on a Buddhist group at the behest of a Chinese ...

Hannah is a reporter with The Canberra Times. She is currently covering ACT courts. Hannah started as a journalist with The Southern Highland News and The Goulburn Post before moving to the ACT.

Two Chinese nationals allegedly recruited by Beijing to spy on a Buddhist group in Canberra have been bailed after a magistrate compared their intelligence gathering to a student researching a school ...

SYDNEY – Two Chinese nationals are set to appear in court on Feb 11 after the Australian police charged them with foreign interference on grounds of covertly collecting information about a Buddhist ...

Zheng Siru, 31, and a 25-year-old man known by the pseudonym “Joseph Vance” faced the ACT Magistrates Court on Thursday morning where they pleaded not guilty to charges of reckless foreign ...

People celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year at Darling Harbour in Sydney, home to a large Chinese diaspora. (EPA Images pic) Australian police said Wednesday they have charged two Chinese nationals ...