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Magoichi Saika · Jul 29, 2011

Oct 5, 2010 Last Updated: Oct 5, 2010

The United States must make China accountable for its violations of World Trade Organization trade rules, according to testimony from industry and government experts before a Congressional-Executive Commission on China held last month.

“The question posed by the Commission is ‘Will China Protect Intellectual Property?’” said Thea Mei Lee, deputy chief of staff at the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations, before the Commission.

American entrepreneurs in the movie, software, and electronic industry, including most U.S. manufacturing companies, have faced an ever increasing deluge of counterfeit products for which they hold intellectual property rights.

Many U.S. experts say that China must give the world more than just lip service, especially if it continues to steal propriety information from its trading partners.

Catching Fake and Harmful Products at the US Border

“CBP [U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agency] has designated intellectual property rights enforcement as a priority trade issue,” according to a recent statement.

The CBP seized 8,000 batches of products that violated intellectual property rights during the first half of 2010 just before the products could enter the United States.

During the same month, the agency donated $2.3 million of counterfeit apparel to the needy.

In March, $52 million of counterfeit designer products were seized at Miami’s ports. These are just the tip of the iceberg. CBP publishes a full list of fake, unsafe, and other products that were caught before the products could be delivered to the respective dealers.

In July, 6,000 counterfeit video games that came in on trucks from Mexico were seized. In June, 62 cartons of counterfeit electronic equipment were caught at the Dallas Fort Worth International Airport.

What the CBP calls fakes do not only violate intellectual property rights, or take jobs away from the rightful manufacturers, but also often contain components that harm the consumer.

In particular, “some of the fakes [perfumes] have been found to contain contaminated alcohol, antifreeze, urine, and harmful bacteria.

Additionally, these fakes infringe on intellectual property rights, impugning the reputation of companies and taking jobs away from legitimate industries,” according to the CBP.

The CBP asks the U.S. public to report on its online reporting system “e-Allegations” if they suspect products in stores or sold over the Internet to be counterfeit.

In reality, vigilant citizens have reported a large number of counterfeit products at stores and on the Internet and have reported them to the CBP.

Many more counterfeit products enter the country than are caught, because the CBP is understaffed and not everything on all trucks, trains, ships, and airplanes can be checked.

China is the main culprit when it comes to counterfeit products. In 2009 alone, more than 70 percent of all counterfeit products that were caught came from China.

“During fiscal year 2009, 21 percent of all shipments to the U.S. came from China. The country also paid 40 percent of all U.S. duties. At the same time, China is a significant trade risk.

In fiscal year 2009, more than 70 percent of all intellectual property rights violations stemmed from Chinese imports,” according to the CBP report.

Another issue is that many countries (especially China) want to hide behind a mantle of legitimacy and as a result have established complex transportation procedures. They often ship to second, third, or more countries before shipping the goods to the final destination, making it difficult to discover where products originally come from.

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S'pore-based China vendor admits fake $2,800 degree printed on 70-cent paper
I warn students they may get into trouble

By Liew Hanqing and Lim Wei Li
February 21, 2010

The New Paper on Sunday went undercover to meet up with a fake degree peddler, a 24-year-old China national who graduated from a local polytechnic.

The man said that degrees from NUS, NTU, SMU and SIM are available, and would cost $2,800 each.

He added that he required a 20 per cent deposit to confirm an order, and would issue a receipt which buyers must produce when collecting their degree in two weeks.

The degrees are printed in a factory in Malaysia, he claimed.

When confronted by The New Paper on Sunday team, the man said he had been peddling fake degrees in Singapore for about half a year, in addition to working as an agent for a company based in China.

He said he gets commission for each degree sold, and claims he makes a point to caution his customers against using their fake degrees to look for jobs, whether in Singapore or in China.

He also said the fake degrees are cheaply made and are printed on regular paper that costs about 70 cents a sheet.

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Fake brands shopping centre set to open in China - pictures

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By Hannah Wood, Mirror.co.uk 5/01/2009

China has confirmed itself as the 'king of counterfeiters' with the building of a new shopping centre dedicated to fake brands.

Some of the brand impostors at the mall in Nanjing, east of Shanghai, include a McDonalds look-a-like burger bar called McDnoald’s, a Starbucks-style coffee shop called Bucksstar Coffee, and a wannabe Pizza Hut called Pizza Huh.

City bosses are under pressure to ban the soon-to-be opened mall after pictures of the fake stores were leaked, causing uproar amongst angry consumers who feared they'd be ripped off.

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Dec 20, 2010

8 jailed for selling fake rabies vaccine

BEIJING - CHINA'S state news agency says eight people have been sentenced to prison terms of up to two-and-a-half years for selling fake rabies vaccines that contributed to the death of one boy.

The official Xinhua News Agency said Monday a court in southwestern Guangxi region sentenced Zhang Dazhi to 30 months' jail while seven others were handed one-year prison terms.

Xinhua says the eight defendants sold more than 530 doses of fake rabies vaccines between August and December last year. It says the vaccines were made of mostly just water.

Police started investigations after a 5-year-old boy died of rabies in December last year despite receiving six vaccine injections. China's pharmaceutical industry is lucrative but often poorly regulated. -- AP

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Fake 'foreign' students

Students born, raised and educated in China are using fake foreign passports to get into top universities. -- PHOTO: AFP

BEIJING - STUDENTS born, raised and educated in China are using fake foreign passports to get into top universities, which have higher entrance standards for domestic candidates, state media said on Wednesday. Fake foreign passports can be bought in eastern China for around 200,000 yuan (S$41,000), the Global Times said of the bogus enrolment scam. Admission requirements for domestic students at China's top universities are extremely high, with only the top scorers on annual nationwide entrance exams offered places. But for foreign students, enrolment requirements are much lower as many universities want more foreigners to foster an international environment on campuses, the report said.

'A typical student imposter cannot speak the native language of his purported motherland and can't tell you the name of the nation's capital. His family is Chinese,' it said. Most of the bogus students carry fake passports from African, South American or South-east Asian nations, it said, adding that many of the documents are issued only months before the youth sends in a university application. The scam has prompted a crackdown by the education ministry, which is now demanding proof from foreign students that they have lived in their purported countries of origin for at least four years, it said. The paper did not say how many fake foreign students enter China's universities every year. -- AFP

Magoichi Saika · Jul 29, 2011

Fake Chinese Apple store has even staff fooled

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BEIJING - China's passion for iPads and iPhones has triggered widespread cloning and even brawls. Now, it has gone further with a fake Apple store so convincing even the staff think they work for Steve Jobs.

The store, in the southwestern city of Kunming, was uncovered by an American blogger who was initially fooled, before she noticed not everything was as it seemed.

At first glance, the signs, computers and layout of the shop all look exactly like a genuine Apple store, says the blogger, who posts under the name BirdAbroad.

Photos posted by the blogger show the employees wearing Apple's trademark blue T-shirts with name badges hanging around their necks.

But a closer look reveals the winding stairs going up to the chill-out area are poorly made, the walls have not been painted well, and the shopfront sign says "Apple Store" whereas the real deal just sports the now-famous fruit logo.

The employees, meanwhile, all genuinely believe they work for Apple, said BirdAbroad, who asked to remain anonymous when contacted by AFP on Thursday.

"I do not know if the computers were real or fake - they seemed real, but it can be hard to tell," she said. "As of last night, the store was still open."

She added that a quick walk around the corner revealed two other rip-off Apple stores - one of which sported a sign saying "Apple Stoer".

The Apple website lists four official stores in China - two in Beijing and two in Shanghai, and none in Kunming.

It has a list of approved retailers that sell its products, but none of those in Kunming corresponds to the fake store's address, according to the blogger.

A spokeswoman for Apple China declined to comment when contacted by AFP.

China is home to the biggest counterfeit market in the world, and despite repeated government pledges to root out fake goods, these are still widely available throughout the country.

As the craze for all things Apple slowly spreads around China, fake iPhones and iPods have also emerged.

The news, however, is unlikely to have an impact on the US-based IT giant, which on Tuesday posted record sales and profits in the recent quarter as sales of iPhones and iPads more than doubled, helped by huge demand in Asia.

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China plan to copy Austria village stirs criticism

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HALLSTATT, Austria – It's a scenic jewel, a hamlet of hill-hugging chalets, elegant church spires and ancient inns all reflected in the deep still waters of an Alpine lake.

Hallstatt's beauty has earned it a listing as a UNESCO World Heritage site but some villagers are less happy about a more recent distinction — plans to copy their hamlet in China.

After taking photos and collecting other data on the village while mingling with the tourists, Chinese architects plan to rebuild Hallstatt in far-away Guandong province — a project that residents here see with mixed emotions.

Publicy, Hallstatters say they are proud that their village has caught the eye of China's largest metals trader. But the apparent secrecy surrounding the project has revived suspicions about outsiders.

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Is it really beef you're eating? China restaurant turns pork into 'beef'

A noodle restaurant in Hefei, China, is reportedly turning pork into 'beef' with a 'beef extract additive'. STOMPer Gotbeef warns travellers to be wary of such dubious practices when dining out in small eateries overseas.

The STOMPer reports:

"Here's the latest 'magical', outrageous and irresponsible way to turn pork into 'beef'.

"I came across this report on the internet; just hope that STOMPers here can be warned of these 'beef pretenders' and beware when you are in that area.

"I feel so relieved that in Singapore, such acts will be checked upon instantly!

"In Hefei, China, a noodle restaurant apparently uses a 'beef extract additive' to turn pork into 'beef' in 90 minutes.

"The final product is very much like stewed 'beef'!

"Use of such additives can cause slow poisoning, deformity, and even cancer :eek:

, especially in the long term.

"The 'beef extract' additive has been discovered circulating widely on the market, allowing for chicken meat to be come 'beef'.

"A city resident revealed that this “beef extract” is not only used in the production of meat floss, its use is also a 'public secret' in some small eateries.

"The local authorities claim that they will investigate this rumour."

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Special report: Faked in China: Inside the pirates' web

(Reuters) - Anybody could tell right away that the Louis Vuitton shoulder bag was fake because it was delivered in a recycled box that once shipped batteries. Warnings printed on the inside of the box read: "Danger Contains Sulfuric Acid" and "Poison - Causes Severe Burns" -- not the sort of messages that would normally accompany a product from one of the world's most iconic luxury brands.

But it sure looked real. It was dark brown, sported a braided strap with brass fittings and the Louis Vuitton monogram stamped all across the bag.
I had ordered the bag from a website called www.ericwhy.com for this special report, which explores the growing problem of counterfeit merchandise sold over the Internet. Reuters wanted to trace the problem from a consumer in Washington D.C. to the shadowy producers based in Guangzhou China, where my colleague Melanie Lee found the illicit workshops and markets.

Ericwhy, based in Guangzhou, calls its stuff "designer-inspired alternative to actual Louis Vuitton" in a disclaimer on its website. "We assume no civil or criminal liability for the actions of those who buy our products." Yet, U.S. law enforcement officials say this website and many others that offer a dazzling array of goods online -- clothes, electronics, footwear, watches, medicines -- are outlaws, and they plan to go after them hard.

Counterfeit commerce over the Internet has soared in the past couple of years, turning what had been an irritant to businesses into a serious competitive threat, the officials say. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimates the amount of counterfeit goods and pirated copyrights in world trade grew from about $100 billion in 2001 to about $250 billion in 2007, the last year for which they have made an estimate.

While there are no separate estimates for how much of that is sold on the Internet, authorities say it is considerable. "The Internet has just completely changed the face of the problem, made it more complicated and more pervasive," says John Morton, assistant secretary in charge of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). "Whole industries now have been attacked, not from the street, but from the Internet."

Visitors to www.ericwhy.com can choose from more than 1,800 imitation Louis Vuitton bags, ranging from a pink shoulder tote and a tiger-colored "Whisper bag" to a simple bright red clutch. The one I ordered cost $122 with a $40 shipping fee, so by my definition it was not exactly cheap. But comparable bags sold at a local Louis Vuitton retail store were $1,000 or more.

I entered my Washington D.C. address and credit card information, and instantly got an email from my credit card company warning of possible fraud on my account. Soon, I received a second email, this one a receipt with a Worldwide Express Mail Service (EMS) tracking number so I could follow my package. The bag left Guangzhou, China on September 14 and arrived on my desk by the 20th.

It was wrapped in a yellow sheath with the Louis Vuitton logo and smelled strongly of leather. But in another sign something was not quite right, the English instructions that came with it read: "Louis Vuitton has created for you prestigious glazed leather" -- the sentence ending abruptly without the word "bag." Luxury brands hire him to gather information on the location of warehouses and factories, who then use that evidence to persuade Chinese police to conduct a raid.

The workshops take real luxury handbags and reverse engineer them. Everything from the metal fittings to the monogrammed leather of a Louis Vuitton bag is produced in China. After it is put together at one of the workshops in Shiling, the bag usually winds up in nearby Baiyun, by the old airport in northern Guangzhou.

SPILLING OUT OF STORES

The Guangzhou Baiyun World Leather market is the epicenter of the world's counterfeit trade when it comes to wholesaling fake leather goods and apparel, experts say. Counterfeit Louis Vuitton, Gucci, Prada, and Hermes handbags literally spill out of shops that occupy commercial space the size of five football fields. Smaller stores provide auxiliary products, such as counterfeit paper bags, receipts and catalogues for wholesalers.

Gina, who declined to give her surname, is one such wholesaler from Colonia, Uruguay. Tugging a large, gray Louis Vuitton suitcase through the narrow paths of the leather market with her 66-year-old mother in tow, she is looking for a shop that can make Louis Vuitton satchels out of "pleather" (synthetic leather). "Don't worry, she can manage, we are very used to this," Gina said as her arthritic mother slowly shuffles forward, carrying bags laden with fake scarves and leather goods, before they stop at a bag shop.

"I don't need real leather, just pleather. No need to be 5-As, just double A enough," Gina told the shopkeeper in heavily accented English. She has traveled halfway around the world to Baiyun to make a personal connection in the world's largest market for counterfeit leather goods. "I used to buy online from China, but after one bad experience, I said never again!" She said she wound up taking delivery of 800 bags in red instead of the black she ordered.

Gina was looking for a factory that can make 500 satchels, which she planned to ship to Argentina before bringing them into Uruguay where she has a beachfront store. It's less suspicious to bring it over the border than have it come directly from China. Clutching sheets of paper with information about the bags she wants made, Gina, with her streaked blond hair, tanned skin and branded accessories, looked more like a Hollywood fashonista than somebody's idea of a pirate.

"I've been in this business for eight years now," she said. "It's a good business." Indeed, while criminal syndicates are getting increasingly involved in the counterfeit trade, both in the United States and China, authorities say, it is ordinary folks like Gina and the shopkeepers she deals with who are the face of the counterfeit business in China.

HALF-HEARTED ENFORCEMENT

Guangzhou authorities occasionally raid the Baiyun market, including the day Reuters journalists visited there. Shops, tipped to the impending raid, dutifully closed their doors, though customers only had to knock to be let in surreptitiously. "They are raiding now. I don't know when it will end. It's because of the Asian Games," said one shopkeeper. Guangzhou is hosting the games in November.

After a few minutes, the raid apparently ends with no arrests made. Shop owners slide off their stools, fling open their glass doors and stand outside beaming and beckoning at customers again. They don't cater to tourists, but sell in bulk to wholesalers such as Gina. Each shop claimed to have a factory backing it.

In the 2009 budget year, U.S. Customs agents and other officials made 14,481 seizures valued at $260.7 million dollars. When the final tally for 2010 budget year is in, the figures will be much higher, Halverson said, noting that in just one operation U.S. agents in Baltimore working with London police seized eight containers of counterfeit shoes and handbags.

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One recent IPR Center enforcement action, called "Operation in Our Sites" seized the domain names of seven websites that allow visitors to stream or illegally download first-run movies, often just within hours of hitting the theaters. Halverson took me to the IPR's operations room, where undercover agents search out websites and plot ways to disrupt them.

The room, with a huge video monitor on the far wall, also functions as a command post to run operations in the field. "Our undercover operation here is just Internet-based. We don't have any face-to-face meetings," one agent said, explaining they use "undercover computers" that allow them to trawl for counterfeiters without being identified.

After making a buy and confirming it is a counterfeit item, ICE agents will get a court order to seize the site's domain name and shut it down. But a longer criminal investigation is required to seize assets and put people in jail, the agent said. Many owners of the domain names, such as Ericwhy, are overseas, making it difficult for U.S. law enforcement to go after them. So often the most viable option is to close the site, another agent said.

ORGANISED CRIME LINKS

While it often seems the counterfeit industry in China is mostly Mom and Pop, Washington sees the problems caused by fake goods as much bigger and more sinister than many imagine. "Counterfeiting and piracy is increasingly the focus of organized crime," said Morton, who heads ICE, the U.S. government's second-largest criminal investigation agency after the FBI.

"There's a lot of money in it and you need a fairly sophisticated operation to pull it off. You need an ability to manufacture goods on a grand scale, you need a shipping network," Morton said in an interview in his office at ICE headquarters with a view of the Washington Monument and Potomac River. "It literally affects every segment of American manufacturing and business," he continued, ticking off examples: "Counterfeit aircraft engine parts, counterfeit ball bearings for machines, counterfeit pharmaceuticals, counterfeit electronics."

The Internet has made it much easier for unscrupulous companies to sell fake or pirated goods. "You don't have to go to the corner of Fourth and Main to buy your fake Gucci handbag. You can order it over the Internet," Morton said. Counterfeit products are also increasingly sophisticated and hard to distinguish from the real thing. In the old days, Morton said, everyone knew an item was a knock-off because it looked like a cheaper version of the original.

But now, counterfeiters want to mimic the item as closely as possible to get higher prices and profits. One new tool Washington hopes will help in the international fight is a proposed Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Negotiators from the United States, the 27 nations of the European Union, Japan, Australia, Canada, South Korea, Mexico, Morocco, Singapore and Switzerland reached a tentative agreement in late September on the pact, which has been years in the making.

With support from groups such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the Business Software Alliance, Congress is preparing legislation giving the U.S. Justice Department broad new powers to take down "rogue websites," both at home and overseas. "Sites like this one (ericwhy.com) are stealing the ideas and designs of legitimate, hardworking manufacturers to line the pockets of foreign criminal networks," said Rob Calia, senior director for counterfeiting and piracy at the U.S. Chamber. "It's theft, plain and simple, and it's hurting our economy."

INTERNET CHAT ROOMS

It is on the Internet where counterfeit traders in China are finding a growing market, not to mention a safer place from which to deal. Chat rooms on sites such as thefashionspot.com are dedicated solely to finding suppliers and discussing bags. Other sites such as Replica Underground offer members direct links to Chinese suppliers. The consensus in the chat rooms is that the best quality fakes that can be bought from websites come from Jacky, Catty and Joy -- all pseudonyms.

Joy, 30, started selling fake Louis Vuittons as a sideline. Having spent a couple of years overseas, she banters with potential customers on her website in flawless English. But behind the cheery facade is a troubled pirate. "I am worried every day about being caught," Joy told Reuters in an email interview. "The old Chinese saying goes: It's a dagger hanging on top of my heart. I've been trying to get out of the business since day one. I have tried everything. I even started my own brand, but nothing sells like replicas," she said.

Catty, who has been in the business of making "mirror-image" Chanel bags for six years, sells 2,000 to 3,000 bags a month to customers all over the world, for about $100 each. Under Chinese law, that size of operation surpasses the threshold required to begin a criminal investigation, as opposed to a civil fine. "Yes, I am so afraid of getting caught, but in China many, many people do this job. You can find many people doing my job on iOffer, Taobao and Ebay," Catty said in an email interview, referring to online auction sites.

The online merchandising trend, and shipping via small parcels, has made it increasingly hard for authorities to track the extent of the problem
"Traditionally, we'd find a few containers every year and they're nice figures to report," said John Taylor, an official with the European Union IPR enforcement unit. "But now there are less containers identified, and customs is working almost twice as hard to find as many products because of the growing trend for consumers to buy items over the Internet," he told Reuters.

Ebay, which has lost lawsuits in France to Louis Vutton for not policing the site for fakes actively enough, said the firm has made an increased effort of late. "We're serious about it. We vet Chinese sellers. If China is going to connect with the rest of the world, China has to confront piracy and counterfeits themselves," Ebay's Chief Executive John Donahue told Reuters in an interview. Jack Chang is a veteran campaigner against counterfeit goods. As chairman of China's leading intellectual property protection group, the Quality Brands Protection Committee, he has worked with the Chinese government to make enforcement a priority.

China's dual system for counterfeit goods enforcement, with duties shared between China's administrative authorities and its police, provides enforcement options for brand owners. But it also forms one of the biggest problems in cracking down on the illicit industry. Under Chinese law, a counterfeit case is not subject to criminal investigation unless it surpasses a certain value or volume threshold. However, unless an investigation is made, it is nearly impossible to know the magnitude of the counterfeiting.

Without evidence to prove that the threshold is met, the police cannot start the investigation. "It's a which came first situation: the chicken or the egg," Chang said. Adding to the problem are the sheer numbers of Mom and Pop stores selling these goods. "It's a never-ending story. Every time you hit one, another one pops up somewhere else, and you have to hit it again. So it's tough," Jean Cassegrain, chief executive of French luxury house Longchamp, told Reuters.

FRUSTRATION WITH CHINA

On Capitol Hill, frustration with China's pirates is adding to rising tensions with China over a range of issues, including the trade deficit and other unfair trade practices they say are taking away American jobs. Sen. Byron Dorgan, Democrat from North Dakota, was conducting a recent hearing on pirated movies, as chairman of a watchdog panel set up after China and the United States normalized trade ties in 2000.

Many thought China's entry into the World Trade Organization would create a boom for U.S. exports. Instead, the trade gap has gotten worse year after year, with the deficit on track this year to reach about $250 billion. Dorgan is grilling Greg Frazier, a vice president at the Motion Picture Association of America, about how Washington ended up agreeing to limit the number of foreign films that can be shown in China to just 20 a year under the WTO pact.

The U.S. movie industry believes the quota has fueled the huge market for pirated DVDs and illegal Internet downloads. "Here is the paradox: there's an abundance of American movies in China but most of them are pirated," Frazier told the hearing. China's policing of the Internet for pornography and political content raises questions why it can't do the same for sites that offer pirated or counterfeit goods, legislators say.

"We know the Chinese government could be doing far more -- far, far more -- to protect intellectual property rights," Rep. Sander Levin, a Democrat from Detroit, tells the hearing. "There's a widening chasm between what we hear from the Chinese government about IPR protection and what we know to be true."

(Editing by Bill Tarrant)

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A China-based website displays fake LVMH handbags as seen on a Reuters computer screen in Washington, September 10, 2010.

Fake foreign brand handbags are displayed inside a store at Baiyun World Leather Market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, September 28, 2010.

Offcuts of leather dumped in a refuse skip are seen close to a workshop where fake foreign brand handbags are made in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, September 30, 2010.

A Reuters reporter examines a fake LVMH handbag purchased from a China-based online website in this shipment delivered to the Reuters office in Washington, October 5, 2010.

A Hong Kong address is seen on documentation included in a shipment of a fake LVMH handbag, purchased from a China-based online website, whilst the shipping label for the package had shown Guangzhou, China as the point of origin in this shipment delivered to the Reuters office in Washington, October 5, 2010.

A shipping label on a fake LVMH handbag purchase shipped from a China-based online website shows Guangzhou, China as the point of origin in this shipment delivered to the Reuters office in Washington, October 5, 2010.

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A customer looks through a catalogue of fake foreign brand handbags in a store at Baiyun World Leather Market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, September 29, 2010.

Shopkeepers selling fake bags wait for customers outside stores at Baiyun World Leather Market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou,
September 29, 2010.

A customer looks at fake foreign brand wallets in a store at Baiyun World Leather Market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou,
September 29, 2010.

A fake foreign brand handbag is seen displayed inside a store at Baiyun World Leather Market in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, September 29, 2010.

A fake LVMH handbag (R) purchased and shipped from a China -ased online website is pictured next to products on display at a Louis Vuitton store in Chevy Chase, Maryland, October 5, 2010.

A workshop where fake foreign brand handbags are made is seen in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, September 30, 2010.

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Lim tricked people into paying him $10 for each booklet of fake coupons.
He also admitted to possessing 720 forged 50-cent and $1 URA/HDB parking coupons.

Man jailed for selling fake parking coupons
By Shaffiq Alkhatib | Posted: 03 November 2010 1800 hrs

SINGAPORE: A 33-year-old man has been jailed 22 months for offences involving bogus parking coupons which were imported from China.

Lim Cheng Hai pleaded guilty on Wednesday to having 720 booklets of the coupons at Block 658D Jurong West Street 65 on March 21 last year.

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200 airline pilots faked resumes : Report

Updated: 2010-09-06 20:54

SHANGHAI: Chinese officials have found that 200 pilots falsified their flying histories, with more than half of them working for the parent company of an airline involved in China's worst plane crash in several years, a report said Monday.

The results of investigations in 2008-2009 showed that airlines desperate for staff were hiring pilots whose resumes had been faked, the newspaper China Business News cited sources with the civil aviation administration during a recent teleconference.

The report comes as the agency investigates safety measures nationwide following an August 24 crash that killed 42 people at a small airport in the northeast, in China's worst commercial airline disaster in nearly six years. Another 54 people were injured in the crash of the Brazilian-made Embraer 190 plane belonging to Henan Airlines during a nighttime landing at Yichun in Heilongjiang province.

A staffer who answered the phone at Shenzhen Airlines, which reportedly had 103 of the pilots with faked work histories on the payroll, said he had no idea about the report. Shenzhen Airlines is the parent company of Henan Airlines. China's aviation industry has expanded rapidly in recent years and regulators have struggled to keep up.

Airports have proliferated as have small regional airlines, reaching into remote cities like Yichun - 90 miles (150 kilometers) from the Russian border - that are eager to develop tourism and other industries to catch up with the country's economic boom.

Pilots who faked resumes back in the air

BEIJING | Thu Sep 9, 2010 3:41pm EDT

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese pilots who had lied about their flying experience have been allowed to return to work after they took remedial action to make up their hours, according to the country's aviation watchdog. Chinese media reported this month that a probe in 2008 had found about 200 pilots had falsified elements of their resumes.

The Civil Aviation Administration of China said they had found 192 pilots whose "flying experience to different degrees did not accord with reality." Some had their licenses revoked, but others were given the chance to retrain and had been allowed to fly once more, the regulator said in a statement on its website (www.caac.gov.cn) late on Wednesday.

"Those pilots given compulsory retraining were, after a thorough inspection of their qualifications, allowed to resume their posts," it said, without naming the airlines involved or how many pilots had been allowed back to work. Following the incident, the regulator said it had tightened procedures to ensure the problem would not happen again, and that it would not tolerate such falsification.

The official Xinhua news agency said that with the rapid expansion of the aviation sector in China, "airlines turn a blind eye to fake records since they are happy to see more pilots certified by the administrative agency." China's aviation industry was jolted by an accident in the northeast of the country last month in which 42 people died when a Henan Airlines jet crashed short of the runway. Until that crash, there had been no other major accident as a result of stricter safety rules and relatively young fleets of mainly Western-made aircraft.

(Reporting by Ben Blanchard; Editing by Chris Lewis and Sanjeev Miglani)

MM_DURAI · Jul 29, 2011

Japan is the most HURT by PRC Exports and Manufacturing. Japs are dead because of PRC. Sure they will cry father and mother. Artificial Food Production is full of Japan. Look at the display outside Japanese Restaurants SO REAL. There are FAKED food sold in Japanese market, but fine prints on the packages will state so. The Japs could well be the ones themselves exporting these techniques and ideas to PRC who exploited for profits.

Now Japs are hurt. They cried foul. Too Late!

Magoichi Saika · Jul 29, 2011

Be careful of Chinaman company listed in SGX! All their acct are fake!!

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?23565-Be-careful-of-Chinaman-company-listed-in-SGX!-All-their-acct-are-fake!!&highlight=fake+china

Taken from this blog :http://singaporemind.blogspot.com
A few years ago I received an SMS from my sis who was attending the AGM of a listed Chinese company (commonly known as S-shares the Chinese companies listed in Hong Kong are known as H-shares). The message from my sis was "Sell everything....". Alarmed by the message, I called my sis up immediately, she told me the CEO has been acting strange throughout the meeting and was evasive when questioned. The stock had more than quadrupled from the price I bought them but fell by 40% from the peak.

With plenty of rumours going around, I decided it was time to let go and proceeded to sell the stock. I sold most of it over the next few days and I was down to my last 23 lots....it was a Friday and I had arranged to meet a friend at the PC Show, I decided to sell the remaining shares on the following Monday. It was a bad mistake. That Friday, the company announced that the CEO had cooked the books. The company, China Aviation Oil[Link], lost something like $800M on oil trading and had manipulated the numbers to show a profit.

The CEO, Chen Jiulin was jailed for 5 years [Link]. As this company was linked to the Chinese govt and had been granted a monopoly to supply jet fuel in China, it was not allowed to fail...they had to fix it and stock holders eventually got 1 lot for 5 lots they were holding. The China Aviation Oil scandal occurred in 2005. I learned an important lesson about these S-chips - you can make plenty of money on the upside, but when the time comes to get out you have to hop off quickly.

The recent scandals we are seeing surrounding S-chips are far worse - some of the companies have been found to be cooking their books before they were even listed. There were cases of fake cash[Link], fake receivables, cases of companies that suddenly faced massive losses after they were listed. There were a few cases of major shareholders who pledge their stake as collateral for loans and when the stock fell, the lenders dumped the stock to repay these loans causing the stock to spiral down rapidly. With so many of these s-chips suspended or on the verge of bankruptcy, it is starting to stink as badly as CLOB for Singapore investors left holding the bag.

Why are so many of these Chinese companies listed here in the first place? Most Chinese companies prefer to be listed in China, Hong Kong or New York and they choose Singapore only when they cannot meet the stricter listing standards of these countries. If these companies are not so good, why are they wanted here? The reason is there is plenty of profits to made by the underwriters, brokerages, SGX and IPO managers. The SGX and brokerages being prime beneficiaries of the high trading volume for these stocks.

The boom in s-chip listings created a pair of new remisier kings [Link]who made hundreds of millions handling the IPOs. I leave you to correlate the millions they made, the IPOs they handled. the performance of these IPOs and the outcome for investors who put their hard earned savings into these IPOs. The onus to regulate and establish listing standards falls on SGX and there is very clear conflict of interest here because SGX has to take care of its own bottomline, the interests of its member firms (brokerages) and the investing public. This sorry saga is very similar to what happened during the dot.com bubble when many dubious companies (now known as dot.con companies) went for listing on Nasdaq.

When the these companies fail en masse, the US SEC went after everyone from the CEOs to analysts to find out how they were responsible for that sorrry saga. The lesson learnt was that when there was money to be made and people think can get away without taking responsibility, bad things will happen - analysts hyped stocks the knew were bad because their firms stand to gain financially from business relationships with these companies.
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"If they allow a small percentage of these companies to defraud investors, that's going to spoil the reputation of other Chinese companies, good companies, listed in Singapore. If we tighten (regulations) too much, we can lose some of these companies from being listed every year" - MAS Chairman, SM Goh Chok Tong, Friday March 27 [Link]
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"Sir, if we don't tighten our people as a whole will lose even more in the future....and the small % is not small it is closer to 30-60%" - Lucky Tan
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Where is MAS in all this? After this whole mess broke out, SM Goh who is the chairman of MAS asked the Chinese authorities to help to regulate their companies that list in Singapore[Link]. Why would the Chinese authorities do that when it is the MAS/SGX that responsible for the listing regulation to bring these companies to Singapore?! The Chinese are smart enough to have tighter regulation and enforcement over their own companies.....it is Singapore that allowed these Chinese companies which incorporate in Bermuda, Caymens Island etc out of the reach of the authorities to list in Singapore. Now that things have gone wrong, SM Goh is saying the Chinese authorities should help us?...That is so ridiculous. I wonder at which point MAS will begin to blame its regulatory failure on investors themselves a.k.a "they go in with their eyes open", buyer beware etc.

How much to regulate is not too hard a question to answer. Successful and good regulation should result in overall long term gain for Singaporeans commensurate with the investment risk. Regulation has to take at least care of 2 things - that the accounts of the companies at IPO can be trusted with high level of certainty and that the company is setup in a way that wrongdoers can be presecuted when the need arises as a deterrent. In this sorry saga money was made by a few local business entities but these crooked Chinese firms made off with plenty of money from Singaporean investors who had no realistic chance of long term returns. The current regulation can't be right unless the goal of MAS/SGX is to help IPO managers and brokerages make money without any regard for the investing public - the ordinary Singaporeans who trust our govt to do the right thing.

Magoichi Saika · Jul 29, 2011

Da Vinci Furniture Scandal

http://www.sammyboy.com/showthread.php?97045-Da-Vinci-Furniture-Scandal&highlight=fake+china

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