Matthew Ng and Nicki Chow. Photo: ABC.
A Chinese court has sentenced Chinese-born Australian businessman Matthew Ng （吳植輝） to 11½ years in jail for bribery and other charges. Ng’s travel company, Et-China (易網通旅行集團) competes with the state-owned Lingnan Group (嶺南集團), and some say that the case was orchestrated so that Lingnan could take over a lucrative subsidiary of Et-China.
After the verdict, Ng told his wife to take the family back to Australia:
Handcuffed and separated by a barrier, Ng told his wife, Niki Chow, to go home to Australia as soon as possible. He then reached for her hand and kissed it before collapsing in tears. “He thinks it [China] is too dangerous and not good for the children,” Ms Chow said later.
