CHINA. TWO MEN SENTENCED TO DEATH FOR KILLING THREE JAPANESE

Hai Ting and Cao Xiude, two Chinese men who were charged with murdering three Japanese tourists in Xi'an, capital city of northwest China's Shaanxi Province, were sentenced to death by the Xi'an Intermediate People's Court.
The court also confiscated all personal property belonging to the two accused. The court found that Hai and Cao, both natives of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, south China, robbed and murdered the three Japanese tourists at a hotel in Xi'an on the night of June 7, 1993. They returned to Guilin, a scenic city in Guangxi, by train with more than 200,000 Japanese yen they had stolen from the Japanese tourists. Police arrested Hai and Cao on July 9, 2004.