HO CHI MINH CITY nike air vapormax 97 nz , May 14 (Xinhua) -- Vietnamese customs officers on Sunday spotted elephant tusks and tails, leopard skins, and wild animals' claws in the luggage of an old local woman who flied from an African country to Ho Chi Minh City.


Checking the personal luggage of a 65-year-old passenger who landed at the Tan Son Nhat international airport, the officers found nearly four kg of elephant tusks, nine elephant tails, three leopard skins and many claws, the municipal Customs Department said nike air vapormax flyknit nz , noting that the smuggled items are valued at over 2 billion Vietnamese dong (some 90,000 U.S. dollars).


Over the past four weeks, the airport's customs officers detected several cases of smuggling rhino horns, elephant tusks and pangolin scales worth over 10 billion Vietnamese dong (nearly 450,000 U.S. dollars) from Africa to the city.


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A government official in North China's Shanxi Province nike air vapormax 2018 nz , surnamed Gao, has noticed his colleagues dressing differently since the broom of austerity began sweeping through the nation two years ago.


"Flashy logos on bags are no longer seen in our offices. Few people wear designer brands at work," he said, somewhat embarrassed by his watch, a conference souvenir.


With the deepening anti-graft campaign, the consumption of luxury brands has dropped considerably in China, with some officials turning to more inconspicuous bribery methods nike air vapormax womens nz , including gifts of money - so-called red envelopes - online during the Spring Festival.


Trial by Internet


At a luxury mall in Taiyuan, the provincial capital of Shanxi, a few customers stroll ambivalently among expensive boutiques. Tianmei Mall's sales manager surnamed Liang is dismayed. Sales, which used to boom in the run-up to Chinese New Year, have dropped precipitously. Menswear sales are down by nearly 30 percent.


Liang takes Cerruti1881, an upscale men's fashion brand, as an example. "Few people even enter the boutique nike air vapormax mens nz , let alone buy a suit."


Suits sold here cost as much as 30,000 yuan ($4,900), but even with a free sweater thrown in, few shoppers seem interested. Previously the store only included a free belt with a suit, and sales were good.


According to a sales assistant surnamed Li, apart from obviously wealthy customers cheap nike air vapormax nz , officials who were clearly spending money that was not theirs also bought the clothes. "But now, there's fewer of this kind of official."


The eagle-eyes of China's legions of netizens notoriously zoom in on officials' clothes, jewelry, wristwatches or even the cigarettes dangling from their lips, checking brands and posting their findings on the Internet. Finding examples of officials' dubious conduct has become almost a hobby for many. Debates on who paid how much for what are rife: Civil servants in China do not receive high salaries.


"Brother Watch" Yang Dacai, a former safety official from Shaanxi Province, was famously spotted wearing different luxury watches in different photographs. Yang is now serving the second year of his 14-year prison sentence for taking bribes and being unable to explain where his millions of yuan came from.


Sales of jewelry nike air vapormax nz , haute-couture and other luxury goods fell 1 percent last year, the first drop in eight years, according to management consulting firm Bain & Company. Sales of men's wristwatches were down 13 percent, men's fashion by 10 percent.


Sociologist Guo Xinping of Shanxi University said that a broad drop in luxury sales was inevitable after the frugality campaign started in December 2012. Extravagance among officials has been contained somewhat. Officials fear being named, shamed, fired or even imprisoned.


Graft goes undercover


A Wall Street Journal article published in early February stated that "lingerie stores in China are seeing strong sales of $300 bras and other pricey skivvies."


Has austerity brought "inconspicuous consumption?" Have government officials merely switched from flaunting their ill-gotten gains in public to more discrete displays of wealth?


One online wiseacre said authorities need to hire an "agent provocateur," or undercover agent nike air max 270 flyknit nz , to root out corruption. "Agent Provocateur" is a well-known London lingerie company.


Some people have turned to bribing officials with calligraphy and paintings worth millions of yuan, as they believe such gifts are both "elegant" and "inconspicuous," the Nanfang Daily reported.


Zhang Yanli, a procurator from Xicheng district in Beijing, said that bribery involving money can be easily traced, but objects can be hidden, making them difficult to find.


Gift cards are also being used as discreet bribes. They are tantamount to cash in shopping malls and can easily be changed into cash through scalpers.


Wang nike air max 270 womens nz , a courier, has delivered several "tiny" parcels recently. When opened, the recipients are delighted to find carefully wrapped gift cards in the dainty packages.


Gift cards of more than 10,000-yuan in value are hard to find these days as government agencies are banned from giving cards to staff and graft-busters have specifically targeted "gift card bribery."


Only cards with small values are on sale at a shopping center in Haikou, capital of Hainan Province. A sales assistant surnamed Wen said that sales dried up as the anti-graft campaign picked up speed. Buying these cards now requires real-name registration.


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