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CHINA HAS executed a 35-year-old Filiipino man convicted of drug trafficking despite a clemency appeal from President Benigno Aquino III.
Philippine vice president Jejomar Binay said that the man, whose name has not been released, was allowed to meet briefly with family members who travelled out to China ahead of today’s execution in the Guangxi province.
The Philippine president had made a clemency appeal on humanitarian grounds, but officials say that the execution will not affect relations between the two countries.
The spokesperson for China’s foreign ministry told the media that the case was handled in accordance with Chinese law and that the relevant countries had been contacted.
Separately, China yesterday executed a woman convicted of forcing hundreds of woman into prostitution by confiscating their identification documents and their money.
Gang leader Wang Ziqi, who ran the Bright Spot Tea House, was accused of luring women into hotels and beauty salons before forcing them into prostitution in Chongqing, south-west China.
She and her male associate Gu Mingtao were executed today, according to China’s official Xinhua News Agency.
China does not release data on the number of executions each year, but Amnesty International says it believes thousands were put to death there in 2010.
- Additional reporting by the AP
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And these clowns went off and put a price on water and tried to sell it to their own people instead.
Whats next, the introduction of toll charges for walking down the street.
@Adrian: Don’t be giving them ideas!
Just waiting for bike toll booths to be set up in and around dublin city centre ! They are a bunch of Eijits
I can’t believe they’ve allowed the cat out of the bag. Finally the plan for Irelands water is revealed, 30 years in the making.
“buy a few laid up supertankers and ship Irish water where there ain’t”
In hindsight, probably the worst business idea ever.
Pass it on to Irish water
@Alex
We don’t even have to buy the tankers.They come here regularly with crude oil to the refinery.Fill them up with the Ballygowan on their return journey to the Middle East.
@Padraig: Oil distribution developed – water will too – if necessity dictates ! A centralised approach to water is vital – the lack of any business case for the meters is the main issue. HNY all.
Laffin
Loughton, Essex isn’t in London as far as I’m aware
It isn’t. Still, I suppose ‘Londoner’ sounds more catchy for a headline
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