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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 ...

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 ...