Ha Ha. You could perhaps follow it up with a book - "The 10 best ways to clear your nose or throat in public in the PRC."

It raises a question of whether people pass wind more in democratic countries than those ruled by a dictator, as in North Korea. Or is it possible that with food shortages, the poor people of N. Korea cannot produce enough gastrointestinal by-products? An interesting area of research for social anthropologists?

For the revised law in Malawi to be effective, there would have to be degrees of offensive behaviour with a scale of penalties dependent on both volume and "aroma." I can just imagine the civil servants in Malawi, tasked with the job of drafting the legislation, having some dificulty in defining individual offences.

With a country as poor as Malawi, there are better things for the government to get worked-up about! What's next - belching?