ICIF to open

THE 13th China (Shenzhen) International Cultural Industries Fair will open Thursday. The five-day fair is expected to attract 2,302 government delegations, enterprises and institutions.

It will be staged at the Shenzhen Convention and Exhibition Center, which offers nine halls with 105,000 square meters for the exhibition.

Disqualified cabbies

THE city’s public transport bureau recently disqualified 146 cab drivers who were listed as untrustworthy for dishonest practices such as rejecting rides and ripping off riders with modified meters.

They will be expelled from the market in Shenzhen, Dongguan, Guangzhou and Zhuhai as the cities have established an information sharing mechanism, according to Cheng Changbin, deputy director with the bureau.

Tying-in smuggling

HUANGGANG Customs seized 39 smuggling cases within a month, in which smugglers tied electronic products around their bodies before crossing Huanggang and Futian checkpoints from Hong Kong.

In one case, a man was caught for taping 40 iPhone 7s around his waist. Most of the smugglers were middle-aged Hong Kongers.

Chicken pox cases

THE entry-exit inspection and quarantine bureau had reported 17 chicken pox cases at the checkpoints with Hong Kong by May 3 this year. Among the 11 chicken pox cases spotted at Futian Checkpoint, eight of them were in border-crossing children who live in Shenzhen and study in Hong Kong. There were zero such cases during the same period last year.

Hong Kong reported a total of 2,617 chicken pox cases in the first quarter of the year, up by 32.5 percent, statistics from the health department showed.

Illegal honking

MORE than 46 percent of respondents said they had encountered drivers who honked indiscriminately every day, according to a survey conducted by sznews.com.

About 25 percent of the netizens surveyed said that they often encountered such illegal behavior, while 27.27 percent of the netizens admitted to committing such violations before. Up to 53 percent of those surveyed believed that a campaign launched by Shenzhen’s traffic police authority to crack down on drivers who violate honking rules could help deter drivers who honk when they’re not supposed to, thus reducing noise pollution.