HONG KONG - A Shanghai court began on Monday morning a two-day trial of four employees of Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto, including Australian national Stern Hu and three Chinese colleagues, on charges of bribery and industrial espionage. If convicted they could each be jailed for up to seven years for a single offence. A combined penalty could be 20 years in prison.
Dozens of journalists gathered outside the Shanghai court, but only a few reporters, possibly from China's state-run media, were allowed in. The Australian consulate general in Shanghai, Tom
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