TAIPEI: A Chinese ship captain was sentenced to three years in a Taiwanese prison on Thursday (Jun 12) for deliberately severing an undersea telecoms cable off the self-ruled island. The captain, surnamed Wang, and his Togolese-registered cargo ship Hongtai were detained in February after a cable linking the Penghu archipelago and Taiwan was reported cut. A district court in southern Taiwan found Wang guilty of violating the Telecommunications Management Act for destroying a submarine cable and