The State Administration for Market Regulation, China's top market regulator, stipulated that businesses should not sell “blind boxes” to juveniles under eight years old, as part of broader efforts to regulate the country’s billion-dollar industry.

Police in the Northeast province of Buri Ram rounded up 481 street racers this week and also threatened to hold the parents of the youth accountable for negligence resulting in wrongdoing – an offence that is punishable by three months in jail and/or a Bt30,000 fine.