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2009-12-28 New form of malaria threatens Thai-Cambodia border O'treng village doesn't look like the epicenter of anything. Just off a muddy rutted-out road, it is nothing more than a handful of Khmer-style bamboo huts perched crookedly on stilts View
2009-12-27 Uganda: People Power Vs Fake Drugs DEADLY new mutations of diseases such as malaria and tuberculosis threaten over half the world's population, the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Gates Foundation warned recently. View
2009-12-15 Tainted Teething Medication Killed 54 Nigerian Children Fifty-four Nigerian infants and toddlers died as a result of ingesting diethylene glycol contained in an acetaminophen-based teething medication View
2009-12-14 33,000 knockoff designer items seized Investigators seized more than $4.3 million in fake designer clothes and goods from two Houston wholesalers as part of a national crackdown on counterfeit rings. View
2009-12-10 Death for 6 Chinese traders faking 'Made in India' tags Six Chinese traders who exported fake anti-malaria drugs to Nigeria under the "Made in India" label have been sentenced to death View
2009-12-09 Over Of Half Online Viagra Is Fake And Dangerous A recent report funded by a number of pharmaceutical companies has concluded that over 50 percent of all erectile dysfunction medication sold online is in fact fake. The study which was done in Japan focused on Japanese and Thai websites and involved real View
2009-12-03 Impact on govt & jobs A new study, conducted by Frontier Economics highlights the negative impact of counterfeiting and piracy on governments, taxpayers and consumers  View
2009-11-30 VIDEO: Health Focus: Danger drugs The public are being warned of the dangers of buying medicines over the internet. View
2009-11-29 Intellectual Property Protection And Investing In India Here’s how India will become the place for future investment and future pharmacological breakthroughs. View
2009-11-17 Dangerous counterfeits a growing problem It's a hidden hazard that could set your house on fire or electrocute you. Counterfeit electronics are downright dangerous. View
2009-11-16 Russian Crime Gangs Selling Fake Tamiflu Online ...investigation by a computer security firm Sophos has revealed that strong groups of organized Russian criminals are duping anxious British by selling counterfeit Tamiflu View
2009-11-14 Customs officers seize rabbit poo cigs More than £1 million worth of counterfeit cigarettes filled with rabbit droppings instead of tobacco have been confiscated by customs officials in Spain. View
2009-11-11 Fake goods cost UK|-|Europe economy £9bn a year UK|-|Europe HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is planning to put on a show of counterfeit goods at this year's BBC Good Food Show at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham later this month. View
2009-11-11 Chinese police raid workshops producing counterfeit condoms Safe sex may not be quite so safe in China. Police have uncovered underground workshops churning out fake condoms in the latest expose of China’s counterfeit industry. View
2009-11-10 Algeria puts brakes on fake spare parts With deaths from car accidents soaring in Algeria, authorities are looking to curb the crashes caused by faulty spare parts by banning imports from anywhere but the most reliable sources. View
2009-11-03 Microsoft links malware rates to pirated Windows PCs running bogus Windows more likely to be infected because pirates won't use Windows Update View
2009-11-02 Piracy threatens China Internet development: CEO Piracy, long a problem for foreign media companies in China, also stands to stifle innovation by the country's own dynamic Internet industry, the chief executive of one of China's oldest Web companies said on Monday. View
2009-10-29 Fake parts main cause of accidents Fake vehicle parts account for about half of road accident deaths in the Kingdom, an adviser to the director general of the Customs Department has claimed View
2009-10-26 Hanoi police seize ton of illegal cosmetics Police in Hanoi said they seized around one ton (907 kg) of smuggled cosmetics worth VND500 million during a raid on four shops in the city last week. View
2009-10-24 £9m trade in toxic cigs made with dead flies A £9M Derby trade in counterfeit cigarettes made with toxic ingredients including asbestos, rat droppings and dead flies, has left at least half a dozen smokers ill. View
2009-10-20 Bangladesh drug firm chief jailed The head of a Bangladeshi drugs firm has been jailed after a court denied him bail in a case related to the manufacture of toxic paracetamol syrup. View
2009-10-12 Workshop Addresses Growing Dilemma of Fake Chips The images are dismaying, but they are real. Workers in an electronics counterfeiting facility in China rinse chips in a murky river and throw them in piles on the sidewalk, separated by sizes. The smallest chips look like dirt mounds. These chips will la View
2009-10-10 Software Piracy on the Internet: A Threat to Your Security For the second year, BSA has produced the Internet Piracy Report, an overview of the scale and serious negative impacts of online software piracy, including a retrospective look at the past year’s notable enforcement actions, and a resource for those who View
2009-10-01 The Fatal Consequences of Counterfeit Drugs In Southeast Asia, forensic investigators using cutting-edge tools are helping stanch the deadly trade in fake anti-malaria drugs View
2009-09-18 Panama: More tainted medicine in 1,155 bottles The death toll from contaminated medicine sold three years ago in Panama could be higher than previously believed after 1,155 bottles of tested positive for a chemical commonly found in antifreeze and brake fluid View
2009-09-11 Illegal chemists pose consumer health risk HALF of all pharmacies in Cambodia are operating illegally, putting customers increasingly at risk, health advocates have told the Post View
2009-08-27 Pirated software can leak your company secrets; KPMG report Well, if your firm is using pirated software, then it is more susceptible to critical systems failure, which can adversely affects your operation, says a KPMG study. View
2009-08-14 Fifth of Britons unknowingly aid child trafficking, according to survey More than a fifth of Britons may be unknowingly contributing to child trafficking, a survey published today reveals. View
2009-07-22 Counterfeit antimalarial drug discovered in Ghana Quantities of a prescription medication used throughout the world for treating malaria have been identified as lacking any active ingredient and presumably counterfeit. View
2009-07-22 Bangladesh probing child deaths Authorities in Bangladesh say they are investigating why at least 20 infants have died recently of kidney failure. View
2009-07-18 Tanzania: Dar loses up to 900bn/- in fake goods TANZANIA is losing up to 25 per cent of its domestic revenue due to tax evasion related to counterfeit and substandard imports, according to current estimates. View
2009-07-10 Fake Pharmaceuticals a Bigger Threat to West Africa Than Drug Trafficking Illegal drugs trafficking is no longer the biggest threat to stability and human security in West Africa, according to a report released by the United Nations drugs and crime body.   View
2009-07-08 The invisible victims: DVD piracy Hundreds of Chinese workers were kept in virtual slavery for years as part of a multimillion-pound pirate DVD industry uncovered in the UK|-|Europe View
2009-06-20 Stimulants, fake Viagra worth millions seized Authorities scored a major success against drug syndicates when they intercepted a shipment of pseudoephedrine pills worth millions of ringgit at Port Klang recently. View
2009-06-19 We can eradicate malaria Newton’s study, published in the British Medical Journal in 2002 (Murder by Fake Drugs — Time for International Action), found that between a third and a half of artesunate tablets across southeast Asia were fake. View
2009-06-18 Extent of Counterfeit Drug Problem and Solutions Are Uncertain Retired Scripps Howard News Service reporter Lance Gay noticed something strange about his prescription asthma medication two years ago. View
2009-05-29 Malaria parasites 'resist drugs' International scientists say they have found the first evidence of resistance to the world's most effective drug for treating malaria. View
2009-05-21 Counterfeit drugs kill over 700,000 people every year - new report Fake tuberculosis and malaria drugs alone are estimated to kill 700,000 people a year. That’s equivalent to four fully laden jumbo jets crashing every day. View
2009-05-19 Malaria Disaster Looms From Bug's Resistance, China Fakes Saron Samnith, 14, slouches in the doorway of his family’s thatched hut off a dusty track near Pailin, a city in western Cambodia. View
2009-05-14 Piracy costs musicians N$1,2million annually – NASCAM The Namibia Society of Composers and Authors of Music (NASCAM) has revealed that the local music industry last year lost N$1, 2 million to notorious music pirates View
2009-05-12 Sixth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study Working together, governments, software companies, and BSA are making progress in stopping the illegal theft and use of PC software products. But piracy remains a serious problem in all countries. View
2009-05-04 Consumer Safety Alert: Counterfeit Electrical Products More than one million counterfeit electrical products, including extension cords, power strips, batteries, and hair dryers, have been recalled in recent years. View
2009-05-04 Counterfeit cords blamed for fires; sold in Valley Some cords look like all the rest, but inside they have little copper or insulation. View
2009-05-01 Bad times are boom times for counterfeiting and Italian organised crime Money made from counterfeiting and other illegal activities is providing Italy’s organised crime gangs with the liquidity they need to invest in property and the credit markets, as well as extending their influence by way of making loans to cash-starved businesses. View
2009-05-01 2008 counterfeiting cost €7.1bn The booming market in counterfeit goods accounted for sales of 7.1 billion Euros in Italy last year, undermining the high-end fashion brands and prized food products that Italy’s economy thrives on, a new study reveals. View
2009-05-01 Bootleg booze kills 11 Eleven people have died in Turkey over the past three weeks after drinking bootleg spirits. View
2009-04-29 In Developing World, Police Investigate Drug Counterfeiting   When Samar Yehia died of breast cancer two years ago, her hospital doctor was shocked. Her condition, previously stable, had suddenly deteriorated, even though the breast cancer medication he had prescribed her had worked well for other patients. View
2009-04-28 Counterfeit Parts Infiltrate Aerospace Projects Electrical, military and aerospace industries face a dangerous resurgence: the unintentional use of counterfeit components in place of certified parts. View
2009-04-24 Cigarette smugglers cost State €54m in lost revenue THE rise in cigarette smuggling cost the State €54m in lost tax revenue last year. View
2009-04-22 Italy tallies rising cost of boom in fake goods A booming market in counterfeit goods racked up sales of 7.1 billion euros in Italy last year, undermining high-end fashion brands and prized food products that Italy's economy thrives on View