Court Orders Detention for Man That Sailed From China to Taiwan

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A Chinese man has been detained and is being held incommunicado after he crossed illegally from China to northern Taiwan in a rubber dinghy. A district court says he violated immigration law.

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00:00A district court has ordered detention for a Chinese man that illegally crossed the Taiwan

00:05Strait into Taiwan's waters.

00:08The court says the 30-year-old man, surnamed Wang, violated immigration law.

00:13He is now being held incommunicado.

00:15Wang used a rubber dinghy to cross from China to New Taipei City.

00:20He says he left China to escape his debts and wanted to start a new life in Taiwan.

00:26In June, another Chinese man reached the waters near New Taipei's northern Danshui

00:31district on a speedboat.

00:33Both incidents have raised security concerns among officials.

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