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| Rewarded for fighting forgers |
All |
| REMOVING millions of pounds worth of counterfeit items from the streets of Ealing earned the council and police national recognition on Friday. |
UK |
5/29/2007 |
CIB-7-2734 |
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| The threat of hardware piracy |
Electronics |
| There is a small but rapidly growing industry of hardware piracy coming to the fore. A distinct number of new computers being sold today are fitted with counterfeit, refurbished or sub-standard components. |
India |
5/29/2007 |
CIB-7-2743 |
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| Two new Labs from Ireland will be trained to sniff out pirated discs |
Movies |
| Lucky and Flo, the two expert sniffer dogs which helped seize RM15mil worth of pirated optical discs, cannot stay here for good. |
Malaysia |
5/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2742 |
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| Music piracy - ten inconvenient truths |
Music |
| 1. Pirate Bay, one of the flagships of the anti-copyright movement, makes thousands of euros from advertising on its site, while maintaining its anti-establishment “free music” rhetoric. |
UK |
5/31/2007 |
CIB-7-2769 |
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| Chinese agency blames Panamanian businesses for tainted medicine |
Pharmaceuticals |
| Businesses in Panama, not China were "mainly responsible" for passing off an industrial chemical as a medical ingredient leading to the deaths of at least 51 people |
China / Panama |
5/31/2007 |
CIB-7-2760 |
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| Malaria, drug-resistant TB flourish in Myanmar |
Pharmaceuticals |
| But doctors say taking ACTs incorrectly or in doses that include fake pills is one of the easiest ways of allowing the mosquito-borne parasite which causes malaria to build up immunity |
Myanmar |
5/30/2007 |
CIB-7-2740 |
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| China’s Blurry Line Between Fake and Real |
Watches |
| Inside a counterfeit factory in Shenzhen, the reality of China’s massive knock-off goods trade is on display, one watch at a time. |
China |
5/28/2007 |
CIB-7-2737 |
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