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Police in a town in southern China believe a local billionaire businessman may have been murdered over lunch by eating cat meat in a poisoned stew. The AP says the two men had a business spat and one invited the other to share lunch and talk business. Authorities believe the cat-meat stew was laced with toxins, killing billionaire Hunag Guang. His associate was taken into custody.
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Police say Huang and Long had economic disputes.
/ d A7 o7 ]# r5 t" g公仔箱論壇Huang, deputy director of agriculture in Guangdong's Bajia township, is suspected of poisoning the hotpot with the herb Gelsemium elegans, according to a statement on the microblog of the investigating police.tvb now,tvbnow,bttvb7 C) Y; E- W3 ]) |7 J* K
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Gelsemium elegans is a toxic plant indigenous to southeastern Asia well known among hill tribes as an effective means for committing suicide.
1 u5 c5 |) {9 _; C$ tEating just a few leaves can cause convulsions and prove fatal.
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Yet despite containing poisonous alkaloids, it is also still used in Chinese medicine to treat skin ulcers and increasingly being used in the mainstream.公仔箱論壇: `) E) \6 f6 \$ [
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It has also been suggested Gelsemium elegans has anti-inflammatory and anti-tumour effects.
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" A' j8 `! W2 N& `公仔箱論壇The herb is widely distributed in the north and south of China.& A0 |- m" b1 E: o
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Cat meat is a Cantonese delicacy, much to the growing dismay of animal rights advocates in China. In recent years, animal lovers have blocked trucks loaded with thousands of cats bound for Guangdon |
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