CHINESE AUTHORITIES DIRECT TAXI DRIVERS TO ESCHEW TATTOOS

• Officials in Lanzhou are of the view that tattooed drivers could often cause stress to passengers.
• The order has sprung open a Pandora box with debate raging over stigmatized body art.

Taxi drivers in a northwestern Chinese city recently received an unusually scathing government directive: Get rid of your tattoos.

The order came in August as transportation officials in the city, Lanzhou, the capit....