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.