Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’

MICROWAVE oven … power-drill … batteries. Handy home gadgets commonly found in most households. Yet danger lurks if you had bought those items on the cheap. It might explode in your face or break to bits. Rita, Haris and Sam are among those who have been victims of sub-standard and fake products which are creeping…

BEIJING – In the first half of the year China prosecuted 1,076 cases of intellectual property rights (IPRs) infringement, said China's General Administration of Customs (GAC) in Beijing on Wednesday. According to a press release by the Chinese Customs, altogether 39 million fake items were seized with a total value of more than 68 million…

CHINA'S armed forces health department yesterday published a list of 16 bogus military medical institutions advertising fake drugs, as it battles health fraud. "These bogus military institutions advertised fake drugs in newspapers, magazines and on Websites, posing a serious threat to public health and to the image of the People's Liberation Army," said the Health…

BEIJING, July 27 (Reuters) – More than a fifth of all Chinese goods from dumplings to electric blankets fail to meet quality standards, creating potential health and safety risks, officials said on Thursday. They blamed the prevalence of fake and shoddy goods on the underdeveloped state of the economy and said counterfeiters were becoming more…

Taipei, July 26 (CNA) The Investigation Bureau under the Ministry of Justice has busted a fake medicine operation in Taichung and seized 300 kg of counterfeit drugs, a spokesman for the bureau said Wednesday. The spokesman said a mobile unit of the bureau in Taichung raided the warehouse and a distribution center in Taichung the…

HONG KONG (Reuters) – Cradled in her mother's arms, tiny Liang Jiayi stares blankly. Foam begins to flow from her mouth and her lifeless body suddenly goes into a spasm. "She's cramping," her father Liang Yongli cries out as he and his wife massage the contorted limbs of the five-year-old. Jiayi used to be lively…

BEIJING, July 19 (Xinhua) — Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao presided over an executive meeting of the State Council Wednesday, which passed in principle a resolution on the issue of energy saving and approved punitive measures in handling a major fake drug case and a deadly coal mine explosion. The resolution, entitled "State Council Resolution on…

Davao City (7 July) — Local government units must take extra caution in buying cheap medicines. Davao City councilor Pilar Braga in an interview said that with the proliferation of cheap medicines which are often associated with fake drugs, the government must take necessary measures since government purchases are given to the lowest bidder. 07…

Police yesterday arrested at least eight store and warehouse owners found selling bootlegged Viagra in a series of raids yesterday in Sta. Cruz and Binondo, Manila. The seized 1,127 boxes of imitation of Viagra were estimated at a market value of P3.3 million. By Romie A. Evangelista06 July 2006 Read the full story at manilastandardtoday.com.

A pharmaceutical company that made a drug which killed 11 people in Guangdong Province has been fined 19 million yuan (US$2.3 million) by a drug watchdog. The production licence of the Qiqihar No 2 Pharmaceutical Company, based in Northeast China, has also been revoked by the Heilongjiang provincial food and drug administration and the sale…