Across China: Guizhou

Liquor giant GM punished

Qiao Hong, former general manager of the Shanghai-listed Kweichow Moutai Co Ltd, producer of China's famous Moutai liquor, was sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve after being convicted on corruption charges on Friday.

The sentence at the Zunyi Municipal Intermediate People's Court in Zunyi city also deprived Qiao of his political rights for life and ordered the confiscation of his property.