In this edition of Quirky China, a woman covered her son’s tongue to help him drink TCM, a man was tricked into drinking plastic seahorse medicinal liquor, and an army of snowmen appeared in northeast China.
A 38-year-old woman has been sentenced to one month in federal prison after pleading guilty Monday to smuggling shark fins, seahorses and sea cucumbers into the country and passing them off as “fish belly” and to attempted smuggling of American ginseng out of the country, which requires a federal permit to export. Xiao Pingping was alleged to have been shipping packages containing the wildlife .
ALOR SETAR: The Malaysian Quarantine and Inspection Service Department (Maqis) thwarted an attempt to smuggle dried seahorses to Thailand without proper documentation on Oct 25 (Wed).