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Death reprieve for hirer of assassin team

A PROPERTY developer in southwest China's Chongqing was sentenced to death for hiring assassins to kill the son of a family who refused illegal relocation requests, a newspaper reported yesterday. Developer Xiang... ...full story at Shanghai Daily

from Shanghai Daily on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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