Court jails two for life over three-day orgy By Hamish McDonald Beijing December 18, 2003
A court in southern China yesterday jailed two people for life for organising a three-day sexual romp with hundreds of prostitutes by visiting employees of a Japanese company. The intermediate court in Zhuhai gave the life terms to Ye Xiang, an assistant to the general manager of the Zhuhai International Conference Centre Hotel, and to Ming Zhu, whose role in the orgy earlier this year was not specified. The hotel's deputy sales manager, Liu Xuejing, was sentenced to 15 years and another defendant, Zhang Junying, got 12 years. Ten others got jail terms of between two and 10 years.
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About 300 male employees of an Osaka construction company stayed in the hotel on a company-organised morale-building excursion. The company admits hiring "companions" for a dinner, but not to any role in the three days of fornication with as many as 500 Chinese prostitutes that followed. Making the incident worse in Chinese eyes, it occurred around the September 18 anniversary of the Japanese invasion of north-eastern China in 1931, and just after a construction worker died and 42 others were injured when chemical weapons dumped by the Japanese army in 1945 were accidentally dug up in the Manchurian city of Qiqihar.
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