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A Chinese court has upheld a suspended death sentence for a man who murdered a stranger with Down's Syndrome, in a convoluted plot to stop another dead man's body from being cremated. In early 2017, a family with the surname Huang did not want to cremate their dead relative, instead seeking to hold a traditional burial. READ MORE: Burials have been banned in some parts of China because of overcrowding in cemeteries.(Supplied) So the family hired an unrelated man, also named Huang, to find them a body to serve as a cremation substitute for their family member. Huang went driving until he saw ...

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U.S. Delegation Lands in Taipei As Beijing Protests Joe Biden's 'Personal Signal' On 4/14/21 at 6:40 AM EDT A delegation of former U.S. officials has arrived in Taipei at the request of Joe Biden for a visit described as the president's "personal signal" of commitment to democratic Taiwan amid China's escalating military pressure against the island. Former Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut leads the group also comprising former Deputy Secretaries of State Richard Armitage and James Steinberg. The "unofficial" trip to mark 42 years of the Taiwan Relations Act, which Biden supported as a senato...

BBC News Published image captionTraditional burials are banned in parts of China A Chinese man with Down's syndrome was kidnapped and killed as part of an elaborate body swap scheme. There is a ban on burials in many parts of China - to get around this, one family hired someone to provide them with a substitute body, which was cremated in its place. But unbeknown to them, the body provided was that of a murdered victim. The murder took place in 2017 but only gained prominence last week after an article on the incident emerged online. The hired man - identified only by his surname Huang - has...

Chinese man with Down's syndrome kidnapped and killed to provide substitute body A ban on traditional burials in some regions of China has led to a rise in 'body swapping' schemes Credit: Getty Images AsiaPac  A Chinese man with Down's syndrome was murdered in an attempt to circumvent a ban on traditional burials.  Cremation is enforced in some densely populated areas of China, but to get around the regulations one family paid a man to provide them with a body to swap with that of their deceased relative.  It later emerged that the body was that of a murder victim killed by the man they h...