What's new: Sun Guoxiang, a former top provincial lawmaker in Northeast China's Liaoning province, has been sentenced to life in prison for taking nearly 1 billion yuan ($139 million) in bribes, according to a court ruling. The former deputy head of the Standing Committee of Liaoning Provincial People's Congress has become the latest in a string of high-ranking officials sentenced this year in the rust belt province, which has been particularly plagued by corruption scandals.

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