customs

"Imagine you're a customs officer who must inspect every parcel through multiple machines with different functions and then sort them into the right bins," Zhang says.

Brands must not only overcome high customs duties, a cumbersome bureaucracy and infrastructure limitations, but also must compete with a robust domestic luxury market.

According to the study, people living during prosperous times may have had more resources and opportunities to focus on burial customs and beliefs about the afterlife.

But curiously, and perhaps ironically, his range of interests, though in fact reprising venerable leftwing sympathies, may also chime with the sort of conservatism that values settled skills and customs—a settled pace of life.

Before becoming defence minister, Enrile held other key posts, including customs chief and justice minister.