The Australian boss of a travel company based in southern China has been charged with embezzlement, foreign ministry officials in Canberra said Thursday, stressing their "strong interest" in his case.

Et-China chief executive Matthew Ng was formally charged on Tuesday, a foreign office spokeswoman told AFP, two weeks after he was detained in the southern city of Guangzhou on suspicion of "misappropriating company assets".

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