11.   The legislation targets prostitutes and small-time drug peddlers who heckle tourists at beaches and cruise ship points.

12.   Two men who sold opium poppy husks as a seasoning to restaurants in Shanghai have been punished as drug peddlers, a Hong Kong newspaper in said Wednesday.

13.   Two drug peddlers were the first from Hong Kong to be executed on the Chinese mainland by lethal injection, rather than shooting, a newspaper reported Friday.

14.   Last week, four drug peddlers were gunned down after an encounter with police.