张召忠：方静正在接受调查！（中国日报英文版）

A veteran anchor with China Central Television (CCTV) is under suspicion of spying, sources revealed yesterday.

Fang Jing, the 38-year-old face of CCTV's prime-time military program Defense Watch, is being investigated for possibly spying for Taiwan, colleagues told China Daily.

The security authorities have neither confirmed nor denied the reports.

Fang, a Beijing native with a postgraduate degree, started hosting the program in 2006. Her last on-air appearance was on the Sunday edition on March 1 when she hosted an episode about India's military strength featuring Rear Admiral Zhang Zhaozhong, a military expert at the National Defense University.

Fang's segments often touch upon regional military topics and she compares China's military capacity with foreign powers, often with the help of specialists from the People's Liberation Army.

Zhang, who has been a frequent guest on the show, told China Daily last night that Fang's case is "still under investigation" and "no conclusion has been reached so far".

"She has not been jailed as is being rumored," Zhang said. "But she is not hosting the program anymore, because she is currently being investigated."

He confirmed that Fang quit after the March 1 edition.

Sources with CCTV also confirmed yesterday that Fang had been "taken away for a possible spy probe".

She was rumored to have been seduced by a man from Taiwan who was "eight years younger than her" and to have received money from him, the sources said.

Fang had been member of the all-star line-up at some of the largest live broadcasts in CCTV history, including the three-day live coverage of the return of Hong Kong to the mainland in 1997 and live coverage of the millennium celebrations.

She started working for CCTV in 1994 after graduating from China's top school for broadcast journalists and spent four months at Harvard University in Boston as a visiting scholar.

A Yi, another CCTV anchor, speculated on his blog on Tuesday that Fang, who had hosted prime-time news features and news bulletins, wanted to host the military weekly program "for the purpose of collecting military intelligence for sources outside".

An online forum about Fang last night was filled with emotional posts, with many fans expressing shock and outrage.

"It can't be that such an outstanding woman has been turned against the mainland," a viewer said on condition of anonymity.

"But if it's true, it is quite worrisome because she could have learned a lot through her job."

(China Daily 06/12/2009 page1)

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NBD讯 英文版中国日报，今日对央视主持人“方静事件”进行了报道，以下是英文报道的译文。

央视主持人方静被疑为台湾间谍

据知情人士周四透露的消息，一位资深中国中央电视台( CCTV )主播涉嫌从事间谍活动。

央视员工告诉中国日报，资深的中国中央电视台( CCTV )主播方静因为可能涉嫌从事间谍活动，正在接受调查。38岁的方静主持的是CCTV黄金时段军事节目——《防务新观察》。

而国家安全当局目前既没有证实，也未否认此消息。

方静1971年6月出生，研究生学历，北京本地人，于2006年开始主持《防务新观察》。她最后主持此节目是今年3月1日的周末版，当时她正与国防大学的军事问题专家张召忠共同主持一期关于印度军事实力的节目。

方静主持的节目常在来自中国解放军军事专家帮助下，共同分析地区军事问题，并将中国的军事实力与外国对比。

而经常参加节目的张召忠教授星期四晚向China Daily透露，方静的案件“正处于调查中，目前还没有结论”。

张召忠说，“她被没有像外界传言一样被捕入狱，由于在接受调查，她不再主持节目了”，并且张召忠证实方静自3月1日以后已经离开《防务新观察》主持岗位。

来自CCTV的工作人员星期三也向记者证实。“她已被相关部门带走调查，可能是因为间谍问题。”消息人士表示，传言方静是被一位来自台湾的“小她8岁的”男士劝诱从事间谍活动，并从那里得到了钱。

方静曾经是央视最出名的主持人之一，参与了中央电视台许多大型实况转播，包括1997年为期3天现场香港回归祖国直播，以及2000年现场直播庆祝千禧年。

方静毕业于北京广播学院播音系，1994开始在中央电视台工作，并在波士顿的哈佛大学当了4个月的访问学者。（据中国日报）