Man gets life in jail for smuggling meth

A 41-year-old man was jailed yesterday for life for smuggling methamphetamine, popularly known as "ice", into Beijing from a prefecture in northeastern China bordering the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.

Gao Yuxi showed little emotion as the Beijing Second Intermediate People's Court sentenced him for trafficking 197.5 g of the drug from the border city of Yanji into the capital.

The sentencing came just a day after police in the Yanbian Korean autonomous prefecture publicly burned 256 kg of drugs, most of which were seized from "neighboring countries".