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Canada says its officials were denied access to trial of billionaire in China

FILE PHOTO: People walk past the building with the listed address of Tomorrow Holdings' Beijing office, China, February 3, 2017. REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Chinese authorities have blocked Canadian government representatives from attending the trial of Chinese-Canadian billionaire Xiao Jianhua, the Canadian embassy said on Tuesday.

Xiao, who went missing in Hong Kong five years ago, was due to go on trial in China on Monday and Canadian consular officials had been pressing for consular access, the embassy said earlier in a statement.

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