Posts Tagged ‘East Asia’
Aida Pharmaceuticals Wins Lawsuit Against Counterfeit Drug Suppliers
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 seizes HK$19m in fake drugs being sold on the internet
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 arrest 5,000 people in counterfeit, inferior goods cases
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.…
[...]4 Chinese nabbed in Binondo
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,…
[...]REFILE-China arrests one over fake, toxic birth-control pills
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…
[...]25 children hospitalised after taking expired pills in Russia
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…
[...]Fake Drugs Create a Bitter Pill for Patients Overseas
In February 2005, a 23-year-old Burmese man checked into a rural hospital in East Burma with a fairly ordinary case of malaria. The hospital gave him the usual treatment — artesunate pills, a medicine heralded as a miracle cure for its speed in treating the disease. Three days later, he slipped into a coma. Within…
[...]Fake Viagras abound, NBI warns
The National Bureau of Investigation yesterday warned the public on the proliferation of counterfeit medicines in the local market following the seizure of fake Viagra and Norvasc from several drugstores in Metro Manila, Southern Luzon and Northern Luzon in separate operations. Viagra and Norvasc are both Pfizer prescription drugs. NBI Intellectual Property Rights Division Chief…
[...]Cheap prescription drugs on-line – BAD MEDICINE
Any Malaysian with an e-mail account would have had the displeasure of receiving e-mail with such headings or similar ones in their inbox. Most of us would normally mark it as spam and banish it to the trash folder, never to be seen again. But not all of us do. An increasing number of Malaysians,…
[...]Drug pirates leave death in their wake
No one will ever know how many Chinese men — and women — were sexually satisfied after taking the American Number One, Male Exclusive, Great Big Brother pills sold by Xi Yongli. When the product was raised in court recently, it was not its potency that was on trial. Rather, it was the legality of…
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