Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’

Thirty-six-year-old Yuya Ohama and 44-year-old Takahiro Ogawa were arrested yesterday at a luxury Sukhumvit condominium. Police also found 20,000 "Cialis" pills. Police said the pair was selling packages of the drug for Bt20,000 on the Internet. The price works out to about Bt500 for each pill. 18 February 2007 Read the full story at nationmultimedia.com.

BEIJING — Beijing police have raided an underground factory making fake Viagra pills, the anti-impotence drug, state media reported Wednesday. Xinhua News Agency said police found nearly 2,000 fake copies of the distinctive blue pills in the factory in eastern Beijing, along with machines, packing materials and trade mark logos, all worth an estimated US$320,000.…

China will step up its battle against fake and dangerous drugs, deepening a probe into pharmaceutical production following a scandal involving a former senior safety official, state media said on Friday. The government will review production licenses for 170,000 drugs, focusing on those given out between 1999 and 2002, the official China Daily cited Vice…

Six people have gone on trial in Shanghai on charges of making an unlicensed version of the anti-bird flu drug Tamiflu, newspapers and the court announced Friday. Lead defendant Wang Xun is accused of illegally purchasing the Tamiflu formula for $20,000 and then joining with others to pirate and sell the ersatz drug, Shanghai's Youth…

HANGZHOU, China, Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Aida Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: AIDA – News), one of mainland China's leading pharmaceutical companies, today announced the Company has won an infringement lawsuit against four counterfeit drug suppliers of the transfusion form of Etimicin Sulfate, Aida Pharmaceuticals' patented antibiotic. The ruling was handed down by the Intermediate…

Customs officers have broken up a multimillion-dollar international counterfeit pharmaceutical ring selling fake drugs through the internet. Drugs seized in raids across the city yesterday included anti-impotence drugs such as Viagra, anti-viral medication used to prevent bird flu, slimming pills and heart disease drugs. The alleged 37-year-old mastermind of the syndicate was caught in a…

Chinese police dealt with more than 4,600 cases involving counterfeit and inferior goods from January to November 2006, according to the Ministry of Public Security (MPS). Police arrested more than 5,000 people in relation to the cases and the value of goods involved reached 1.28 billion yuan (164 million U.S. dollars), an MPS official said.…

Police have raided several drugstores reportedly selling unregistered medicines in Binondo, Manila, last Friday and have arrested five people, including four Chinese nationals. Newly-installed Criminal Investigation and Detection Group director Chief Superintendent Edgardo Doromal identified the arrested persons as Roger Pincas, sales representative of Vita Green, Teresita Cheng, Kun Zhang Chen, assistant manager and manager,…

BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) – Chinese authorities have closed down a factory producing fake birth-control pills out of starch and glucose and arrested one person, media reports said on Monday. Tests by the Food and Drug Administration on the southern island of Hainan found not only that the pills were useless in preventing pregnancy but…

Twenty five children were hospitalized late on Thursday after taking expired pills at a boarding school in Russia's southwestern Voronezh region, local authorities said on Friday. According to Voronezh's chief sanitary inspector Mikhail Chubirko, the 25 children felt unwell after they took "Isoniazid" and "Heksavit" pills at supper and were then rushed to hospitals. Three…