Former Taiwan officials indicted in China spying case

A retired Taiwan navy officer and a former member of the country's parliament were charged yesterday over an alleged bid to build a spy network for China.

Hsia Fu-hsiang, who was deputy head of the navy's political warfare department, and former legislator Lo Chih-ming had "provided Chinese intelligence personnel with opportunities to contact and even recruit our retired generals in their actions to develop a network for Chinese organisations", the Kaohsiung district prosecutor's office said.