SINGAPORE: CHINESE NATIONAL GETS DEATH SENTENCE FOR CABBY MURDER

in Singapore, High Court Justice Lee Seiu Kin sentenced odd-job labourer and Chinese national Wang Wenfeng, 32, to death for murdering taxi driver Yuen Swee Hong, 58, in an attempted robbery in Sembawang on April 11, 2009. Wang also took Yuen's handphone, and when the cabby's wife called, he demanded $150,000 for her husband's safe return, although he was already dead.