Former Tobacco Firm Chairman Goes to Jail for Life 　　Chu Shijian, former board chairman and president of a tobacco company, the Hongta (Group) Co., in Kunming, was sentenced to life imprisonment for embezzlement and huge amount of properties without clear sources. 　　The sentence was announced by the Higher People's Court of Yunnan Province on January 9, in Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province. 　　 HomeNews 1999-01-10 Page2 Full Story in Chinese