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Customs officials caught a

Polish man after he tried to

smuggle nearly 100 tarantula

spiders in his luggage, at Cay-

enne airport, French Guiana,

regional officials told AFP

Saturday.

The prefecture said the

man attempted to carry a bag

containing 38 adult and some

50 young as well as dozens of

egg-filled cocoons through the

airport at Cayenne, capital of

the French overseas depart-

ment bordering Brazil and

Surinam.

He was arrested on August

25 as he prepared to board a

flight to Paris, having packed

the creatures “in plastic

bottles” hidden among his

luggage, the prefecture said.

According to ONCFS, a

French wildlife protection

agency, “The transport of (live)

scorpions and tarantulas” is

not forbidden wholesale but

“regulated.”

But certain species –

including some tarantulas –

enjoy special protected status.

AFP

Smuggler caught in customs web

Shepherds in North China’s

Inner Mongolia Autonomous

Region have boosted sales by

attaching pedometers to some

of their sheep to prove they

walk 40 to 50 thousand steps

a day across the wide expanse

of the verdant range in which

they graze.

A shepherd in Xilin Gol

Prairie said the pedome-

ter-wearing sheep walk ten

million steps before they’re

sold and the slogan: “Mutton

from sheep that walked 40

thousand steps a day” has

helped increase online sales of

mutton tenfold.

Consumers say mutton

from free-range sheep is ten-

derer and tastes better.

A video posted by Btime

on Friday, shows a herdsman

attaching an ordinary pedom-

eter to the hind leg of a sheep.

The herdsman is then seen

on horseback leading his flock

across the lush green prairie of

Inner Mongolia.

With the support of the gov-

ernment, the shepherds have

established a well-recognized

brand for their sheep and are

selling them across the coun-

try, according to the video.

Annual mutton sales from

sheep raised in the region have

jumped from 3 million yuan

($419,328) two years ago to 30

million yuan this year, a Tmall

retailer said in the video. 

“The pedometers count the

steps to the end of their lives,”

one netizen commented.

Btime

Miniature palace

Confucian obedience

A young man in a village of

South China is attracting

worldwide attention for videos

showing him strutting his

self-designed, far-out fashions

just like the Victoria Secret

models he loves to emulate.

Luxianren, the 20-year-old’s

social media name who lives

in Nanning, Guangxi Zhuang

Autonomous Region, has

posted dozens of videos of

himself strutting an imaginary

catwalk in fields and thrashing

grounds wearing outfits he

made from scrap materials

found in his village.

In makeup, his striking

facial features – high cheeks

bones, piercing eyes – give him

the appearance and the allure

of a top model.

He’s seen strutting on his

tiptoes wearing a dress he’s

fashioned from a flowering

bush or a full-length evening

gown that appears to be made

from netting hung over crops

to block the sun. He’s even

turned an indoor air-condi-

tioner unit into an overly-long

purse.

“He is a real designer and

supermodel ... he’s is way bet-

ter than Victoria’s models and

he has great fashion sense,” a

Net user from overseas wrote

in a typical comment.

Jin Dachuan, one of China’s

well-known male models, said

on his Weibo account that he

was comfortable watching Lux-

ianran’s online fashion shows.

Luxianren’s videos also had

many critics who said they

couldn’t accept a man wearing

such feminine fashions.

Luxianren said he has been

interested in fashion design

ever since he watched models

on the runway on TV when

he was just a child and knew

then he would make his own

fashions when he grew up.

Global Times

Ganzhou in East China’s Jiangxi Province has

put a 5 yuan (70 cent) bounty on rats in a cam-

paign to ride a district in the city of the rodents.

According to a report posted by chinanews.

com on its WeChat account on Saturday, the aim

of the campaign is to further improve sanita-

tion in the Zhanggong district of the city. City

officials say the campaign will effectively protect

the health of the citizens and reduce the spread

of diseases caused by rats.

Bounty hunters are being asked to bring

their catch to the nearby village or community

neighborhood committee to claim their reward,

said the report.

The city government recommends citizens to

use rat traps, and the dead rats must be intact,

cannot be decomposed and have to be delivered

in a sealed bag.

The report attracted attention on Sina Weibo.

Many netizens questioned whether it is safe

to ask citizens to capture rats which can trans-

mit more than 50 diseases to humans, some of

which can be life-threatening.

Some netizens also made fun of the cam-

paign. “It will cause a lot of unemployment

among cats,” wrote a netizen.

Chinanews.com

Big intestinal stone found in stomach

of a girl who loves to eat her hair

Doctors from Nanning, South China’s Guangxi

Zhuang Autonomous Region have discovered

an intestinal stone they say is as large as a tennis

ball in the stomach of a girl who loves to eat hair.

The 5-year-old girl has had abdominal pain

for nearly a year and doctors have finally found

the cause of her pain and the cause of the huge

intestinal stone which mostly consists of hair,

according to Pear Video on Sina Weibo on

Saturday.

The girl’s physician, Lin Yuyuan, from the

gastroenterology department of Ruikang Hospi-

tal Affiliated with Guangxi University of Chinese

Medicine told Pear Video that the hair the girl

swallowed got mixed with food particles in her

stomach to form the stone.

The hospital has drawn up a plan to remove

the stone but doctors haven’t yet performed the

surgery, reported Pear Video.

Lin says he’s treated many children with eat-

ing disorders who try to digest non-food items

such as paper or earth or hair.

Pear Video

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Cross-dressing fashion designer struts avant-garde

outfits in rural China, wins praise abroad

Counting ‘steps’ of sheep raised on Inner Mongolia

prairie gives online mutton sales huge boost

Jiangxi launches campaign to eliminate rats with a 70 cent bounty

Vistiors can strolll through a 15:1 scale model

of the entire Daming Palace from the Tang

Dynasty (618-907) at the Daming Palace

National Heritage Park in Xi’an, Northwest

China’s Shaanxi Province. Photo: IC

Students bow at the Nanjing

Confucius Temple Primary School in

East China’s Jiangsu Province during

its grand “First Writing Ceremony” for

first-year students on Sunday. Photo: IC