The spy films of our times often focus on a time long gone - be it the Cold War, the World Wars or the India-Pakistan wars. But the aegis of espionage is no longer men and women in hats and newspapers covering their faces, rather, it's the surreptitious technology.
Chinese authorities have detained a Japanese man in his 50s in Shanghai, although details of the detention and the reason for it remain unknown, the Japanese Foreign Ministry says.