Chinese man whose rubber dinghy ran aground off New Taipei indicted

A Chinese man rescued some 100 meters off the coast of New Taipei last year after purportedly making a nearly five-day open-sea crossing in a rubber dinghy to "seek freedom" has been charged with illegally entering Taiwan.

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