CHINA SENTENCES TWO TAIWANESE TO DEATH FO DRUG DEALING

a Chinese court sentenced two Taiwanese, convicted of trafficking heroin from Myanmar, to death. Chien Chih-Cheng and Chen Ming-Hsiung were among eight Taiwanese citizens sentenced last week in the south-eastern province of Fujian for their part in trafficking more than 12 kilograms of heroin, the official Xinhua news agency said. Chien and Chen led a gang that bought 39 packets of heroin from Myanmar in early September and sold four of them for 400,000 yuan ($60,000) in the southern city of Shenzhen, which borders Hong Kong, the agency quoted police as saying. The Zhangzhou Intermediate People's Court handed down two suspended death sentences, the agency said.