I doubt it will be an open trial, simply because it is an
espionage case.
Also I don't know why is Straits Times not keeping its mouth shut
and let the case slip quietly.
Ching Chong was a state journalist at the 'State Times'.
He could be a Singapore agent tasked with assisting Taiwan
intelligence operation.
I don't think the Taiwanese intelligence was so good and
coincidentally cultivated him, a convinient journalist from a third
country, Singapore.
Also I don't think if Ching Chong was really that innocent and was
being used without him realizing, that he would get 5 years, and
the case publicised, instead of him being evicted only.
It is curious that State Times now make noise.