Customs
From Sina Weibo, Jinghua Daily A 30-year-old Chinese woman was sentenced to 11-year-imprisonment and fined half a million Chinese yuan (US$78,100) for evading more than one million yuan in customs duty on foreign beauty products brought from South Korea. Her boyfriend, regarded as her accomplice, received a 5-year jail sentence and was ordered to pay [...]
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From AFinance The second day of the second month on the Chinese lunar calendar, and, superstitiously, the day on which the dragon raises its head (龙抬头), signifying an uptick in the luck. On this day, Chinese people, young and old, often flock to either old-school barbershops or modern hair salons to get a hair-cut. For [...]
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From Guangzhou Daily Shenzhen Customs officers recently caught a gang of 14 smugglers red-handed and seized 340 brand-new cellphones, 88 iPads, which amount to 950,000 yuan (US$150,000). At 12:00 on December 2 during shift change, several men wandered around at the immigration hall, acting suspiciously. Customs officers became alert after notice them, and judged by their [...]
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