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HONG KONG, Sept 1 Asia Pulse - Highlights of today's newspapers:
SOUTH CHINA MORNING POST:
- Hong Kong-based journalist Ching Cheong, sentenced to five years in jail by a Beijing court yesterday for spying for Taiwan, maintained his innocence and described his trial as unfair.
- Hong Kong's highest court has upheld a ruling that the government had warned could open the floodgates to tens of thousands of appeals by convicted drug offenders.
- Newly elected Hong Kong Jockey Club chairman John Chan Cho-chak says the "race against time" to finish equestrian facilities for the 2008 Beijing Olympics is his greatest immediate task.
- The MTR Corporation and district councillors have settled their differences over the planned West Island line, held up by a row over a proposal to use the Kennedy Town swimming pool for property development.
THE STANDARD: