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Cheng Lei's family believed their daughter would never become a TV reporter in Australia.
She took her family's advice, graduated from the University of Queensland and went on to Cadbury Schweppes and ExxonMobil in Melbourne. Busy, but not satisfied, the business analyst took a punt and went for an internship in Beijing well below her pay-grade, returning to a country she had left as a 10-year-old to pursue a career she did not think she could have in her adopted home.
Cheng's gamble landed her an internship at Chinese-state media network CCTV in 2002. Within a year she was leading US pay-TV network CNBC's business coverage out of Singapore and China. She now faces six months under surveillance at an undisclosed location, without guaranteed access to legal aid, on charges unknown. Chinese authorities took her into custody on August 14 but her detention was not publicly revealed until Monday night. The Australian government is yet to be notified of the exact nature of the claims against Cheng.
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