Compiled by EMALIN ZALANI, CHOW HOW BAN AND C.ARUNO
CHINA has executed 61-year-old Yu Huaying who was convicted of abducting and trafficking 17 children in one of the country’s most high-profile cases in recent years.
Sin Chew Daily reported that the execution by the Guiyang Intermediate People’s Court was approved by the Supreme People’s Court yesterday.
Yu’s appeal was rejected after she was found guilty of the offences and sentenced to death in October last year.
During the trial, victims told the court about their ordeal, with one of them saying she was taken by Yu at the age of five, on the pretext of buying knitting needles.
She was then sold to a family in Hebei province for 3,500 yuan in 1995.
She said her biological parents died after her disappearance and her adoptive parents often beat her.
Yu and her accomplices abducted their victims from Guizhou and Yunnan provinces, and Chongqing municipality, selling them for profits between 1993 and 2003.
> A recent Xiaohongshu post by American-Taiwanese actor Peter Ho engaging in his usual gym workouts has once again caused a stir on social media, China Press reported.
The 49-year-old posted photos of him taking a selfie with two women in a gym in Beijing.
Awed by the muscular Ho, the women were seen admiring his biceps.
Ho, who moved to China in 2000, has shared many stories of his gym workouts on his social media account.
The above articles are compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a >, it denotes a separate news item.
