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HONG KONG — In China, snakes can be farmed and eaten. But they can't be carried alive into the country, even — or especially — if you try to smuggle more than a hundred of them in your pants. That's ...

Khakis and chinos have military origins, born of necessity. Khakis go back to the mid-1800s, when British soldiers in India dyed their cotton trousers a dusty brown—khaki, from the Hindi word for dust ...

Beijing — A man has been caught trying to smuggle over 100 live snakes into mainland China by cramming them into his trousers, according to the country's customs authority. The unnamed traveler was ...

An unusual situation has surprised customs officers at the Chinese border crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen - more than a hundred live snakes were found in the pants of one traveller. The snakes ...