CHINA: BILLIONAIRE GIVEN DEATH PENALTY FOR MURDER

in China, billionaire Wang Wenxiang, 49, of Heilongjiang Province, was sentenced to death for hiring his personal secretary Bai Peng and a migrant worker Yu Yi, to kill businessman Zhong Yishi. The Municipal Intermediate People's Court of Harbin also sentenced Bai and Yu to death, Yu getting a two-year reprieve. The three were ordered to pay 340,000 yuan in compensation. Bai and Yu strangled Yishi on May 18.