Singer Tan's agent says absence due to childbirth

The agent of People's Liberation Army singer Tan Jing has denied speculation of the singer's involvement in the Party's anti-graft investigations of a senior official, saying Tan's recent absence from the public has been because of pregnancy and giving birth to a baby.

Tan, a singer with the Song and Dance Company under the General Political Department of the PLA, recently gave birth to a baby and is on maternity leave, according to Li Tianpeng, her agent.

Li rejected online speculation that Tan's recent disappearance from public view was caused by the Party's anti-graft investigation of Shen Weichen, Party chief and executive vice-president of the China Association for Science and Technology and former Party chief of Taiyuan, Shanxi province.