A fact from Muang Sing appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 4 February 2012 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that during colonial times, the French used Muang Sing as a weigh station and market for their opium monopoly?

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Weigh Station[edit]

I suspect that this is an error for "way station". Is the meaning "an intermediate point" or a "place for weighing vehicles" ? If the former, which seems more likely, then it is "way station". -- अनाम गुमनाम 02:54, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]

The original source does read "weigh station". My guess is in the sense of "a weighing center for official opium shipments"? -- Khazar (talk) 03:01, 4 February 2012 (UTC)[reply]