All of Tang's personal property will be confiscated and his illegal gains from bribery recovered and turned over to the national treasury, the court said.
The 61-year-old senior diplomat was taken away for questioning in late July after returning to Beijing from an overseas work trip, the paper reported, quoting people familiar with the matter.
The former British colony also reported COVID-related 87 deaths taking the overall toll to 3,729, the report said.
After recording the highest COVID-19 cases in Jilin, the authorities there have barred residents from leaving the province and travelling between cities within it.
China has opened up the country fully after the coronavirus cases declined. The businesses and factories of the world's second-largest economy have fully opened and are functioning.
Beijing on Monday began mass COVID-19 testing of over 3.5 million people in one of the city's high-profile districts following a spike in cases, while Shanghai reported a record 51 deaths in a day as the eastern metropolis continued to grapple with the Omicron variant for the fourth week.
Indian citizens in Eastern China Region may apply at the Embassy of India, Beijing for availing urgent consular services, the Consulate said in a notice issued on Tuesday.
The Chinese capital, which is battling the spread of the Omicron variant similar to Shanghai, has ordered mass testing from Tuesday in 11 of its districts, virtually covering all its 21 million population.
Apart from Shanghai, 15 other provincial-level regions on the mainland saw new local Covid cases .
At least 55 people were killed on Monday in a major fire accident at a poultry processing plant in northeast China, charring the entire facility.
Asymptomatic cases pose a problem as the patients are tested COVID-19 positive but develop no symptoms such as fever, cough or sore throat. However, they pose a risk of spreading the disease to others.
The latest surge in cases in the last few weeks was a two year high in the country, denting official claims of China being one of the best performers in curbing COVID-19 pandemic.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday visited an exhibition of the Communist Party, appearing in public for the first time after his return from the SCO summit on September 16, which sparked rumours about his absence from the limelight ahead of next month's key Congress of the ruling party.
Shanghai's single-day infection numbers also beat China's previous all-time high of 13,436 cases recorded in Wuhan on February 12, 2020, where the coronavirus outbreak first emerged.
The death toll from the fire at a poultry plant in northeast China's Jilin province had risen to 120 with about 70 people injured.
China reported 17,166 asymptomatic cases with a majority of them in Shanghai, China's business hub of 26 million.
Beijing's health officials on Monday announced 29 fresh cases taking the total cases to 70 in the city.
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A 22-year-old woman tried to kill herself by jumping out of a seven-storey residential building in Changchun, Jilin province of China on Tuesday.
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The miners were working beneath the shaft of Tengda, a township-run coal mine, when the flooding occurred around 0530 IST and have remained out of contact ever since, they added.
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Beijing's sky was gloomy and the ground largely deserted.
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According to the new data, India accounts for the most with 2,226.
It is important to note that slowdown in activity is really confined to a selected few regions within China.
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