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Haze Fan, a Bloomberg News staff member in China who was detained in late 2020, was released on bail early this year, according to a statement by the Chinese embassy in Washington that was dated May and reported by the news organisation on Tuesday. New York-based Bloomberg said in a news report that it was made aware of the embassy statement over the weekend, and that it had not been able to contact Fan. Fan, a Chinese national who was working in the Bloomberg bureau in Beijing, was detained in December 2020 and was formally arrested in July 2021 on...