Captain gets 3 months in jail

MOSCOW: A court in Russia's far eastern city of Nakhodka sentenced the Indonesian captain of a Chinese cargo ship to three months in jail after finding him guilty of border violation, the RIA Novosti news agency reported yesterday. The Sierra Leone-flagged vessel, New Star, sank off Russia's far eastern port of Vladivostok on Feb 15 after coming under fire from Russian coast guard vessels. Seven Chinese sailors died and three survived.

Xinhua