TOURISM authorities are to carry out random inspections of local travel agencies after reports that visitors were taken to a bogus traditional Chinese medicine store to buy fake products.
A Singapore reader, surnamed Ng, told Shanghai Daily that in December she was brought to what has been described as a city branch of Nanjing Tongrentang.
Ng spent S$2,000 (US$1,617) on two bottles of health products but later had suspicions about the authenticity of the goods.
An official with Nanjing Tongrentang told Shanghai Daily the company had never produced the medicines described by Ng. Full story
