About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/1d62c23f950eed6a2d6781634a125f298ad7c6dc96a4e21bed9d06cd

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/1d62c23f950eed6a2d6781634a125f298ad7c6dc96a4e21bed9d06cd Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	Two Australian media companies were ordered Tuesday to pay a prominent businessman hundreds of thousands of dollars in damages over a report alleging he was covertly working for China's Communist Party. A federal judge ruled that Nine Entertainment and public broadcaster ABC had broken Australia's strict defamation laws in their 2017 investigative report about Guangdong-born businessman Chau Chak Wing. The two publications were ordered to pay around US$450,000 and to withdraw reports that Chau worked for Beijing's United Front Work Department -- an organisation that promotes party interests overseas. They also suggested that Chau bribed local politicians "to advance the interests of the Republic of China" and was one of those involved in a scheme to bribe then-president of the General Assembly of the United Nations John Ashe. Ashe was accused by US prosecutors of taking more than US$1 million in bribes from Chinese businessmen but died before the case concluded. Chau denied the allegations and sought damages for defamation. The judge made no ruling on whether the allegations were true or not, but agreed the report contained "defamatory matter". At the time of its release, the report spurred public interest in China's influence operations in Australia, where the government has since passed legislation to combat foreign interference. In a joint statement, ABC and Nine said they were "deeply disappointed" by the ruling, which they said would "have a further chilling effect on media freedom in this country". Chau, an Australian citizen, owns China-based Kingold Group, a property development firm. He has also attached his name to a number of high-profile philanthropic projects in Australia, including the recently opened "Chau Chak Wing Museum" at Sydney University and the Frank Gehry-designed "Dr Chau Chak Wing Building" at the University of Technology Sydney, from which he received an honorary doctorate. arb/dm/lb/qan
schema:headline	Businessman accused of working for China wins defamation payout in Australia
schema:mentions	Honorary degree United Nations General Assembly John William Ashe Australian Broadcasting Corporation Sydney Communist Party of China Defamation United Nations Australia China Chau Chak Wing United Front Work Department University of Sydney Nine Entertainment Co. Government of China
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2021-02-02 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	86 (xsd:integer)
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion	happiness

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 11 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software