Entries from Truth About China tagged with 'fraud'
EU presses China over fake goods
By BBC News 01 September 2010 The EU has urged China to step up the fight against black market exports, saying counterfeit cigarettes alone are depriving the EU of 10bn euros (£8bn) in tax revenue annually. The EU Commissioner for...
China tourism plan a Trojan horse
By VietNamNet BridgeJuly 18, 2010 China's recently announced tourism development plan has been slammed as a Machiavellian ploy to claim sovereignty over Vietnam's Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos. "This trick is very clever, taking the name of...
Milk Activist Trial Censored
By Radio Free Asia01 April 2010 China blacks out news about the trial of an activist who helped victims of a tainted milk scandal. Chinese authorities have taken swift steps to censor online news and information about the trial of...
More Melamine-Tainted Milk Products Found in China
By The Associated Press | The New York TimesJanuary 25, 2010 Melamine-tainted dairy products have been pulled from convenience store shelves in southern China more than a year after hundreds of thousands of children were sickened in a massive milk...
AP: Feds probe cadmium in kids' jewelry from China
By Associated Press - Justin Pritchard | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsJanuary 11, 2009 Moving swiftly, U.S. product safety authorities say they are launching an investigation into the presence of the toxic metal cadmium in children's jewelry imported from China after...
US software firm sues China for 2.2 billion dollars
By Agence France Presse AFP - via (UNCENSORED) Yahoo! NewsJanuary 05, 2010 A California firm filed a 2.2 billion dollar lawsuit against China, accusing Beijing of stealing its technology to bar Internet access to political and religious sites in China....
Salute All Cars, Kids. It's a Rule in China.
By Sharon LaFraniere | The New York TimesOctober 26, 2009 HUANGPING, China -- All the students at Luolang Elementary School, a yellow-and-orange concrete structure off a winding mountain road in southern China, know the key rules: Do not run in the...
China Spreads Aid in Africa, With a Catch
By SHARON LaFRANIERE and JOHN GROBLER | THE NEW YORK TIMESSeptember 22, 2009 WINDHOEK, Namibia -- It is not every day that global leaders set foot in this southern African nation of gravel roads, towering sand dunes and a mere...
China Urged to Cancel Quake Trials
By Edward Wong | The New York TimesAugust 06, 2009 Human rights advocates are calling on the Chinese government to cancel the criminal trials of two men who pushed for official investigations into the causes of widespread school collapses during...
In China, Quake Survivors Must Swallow Grief and Anger
By Jill Drew - Washington Post Foreign Service | THE WASHINGTON POST May 03, 2009 JUYUAN, China -- After last May's massive earthquake buried her son under tons of shattered concrete at his collapsed school, Han Xuehua, numb and disbelieving,...
In China, Knockoff Cellphones Are a Hit
By David Barboza | THE NEW YORK TIMESApril 28, 2009 The phone's sleek lines and touch-screen keyboard are unmistakably familiar. So is the logo on the back. But a sales clerk at a sprawling electronic goods market in this Chinese...
China athletes 'faked their age'
By BBC World NewsMarch 16, 2009 Bone tests on teenage athletes in south China have shown that thousands had faked their age, often in order to keep competing in junior events. Tests on nearly 13,000 athletes found that more than...
China's coming collapse: hidden crisis, global financial mess, corruption
By Centro de Medios Independientes Valparaiso (Chile)December 13, 2008 Is China about to collapse due to hidden crises and corruption? Is global financial crisis impacting China? Is a runaway government corruption destroying Chinese economy and peace? What is really behind...
"Made in China" label battered by product scandals
By Ben Blanchard - REUTERS - via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsDecember 08, 2008 Milk, toothpaste, cough syrup, pet food, eels, blood thinner, car parts, pork, eggs, honey, chicken, dumplings, cooking oil and rice -- if you can fake it or taint...
RIPPED OFF: FAKES AND COUNTERFEITS STEAL BUSINESS FROM U.S. EXPORTERS
By Robert R. Frump | Shipping DigestNovember 10, 2008 Tim Demarais, a vice president of ABRO Industries, was cruising through the exhibits at the Canton Trade Fair in the fall of 2002 when he spied a picture of his wife...
Microsoft irks China clients
By ASSOCIATED PRESS | The Washington TimesNovember 03, 2008 An anti-piracy tactic by Microsoft Corp. that turns some computer users' screens black has set off a wave of indignation among Chinese consumers, posing renewed problems for the software maker in the...
Riot police quell two separate large protests in China
By Agence France Presse | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsSeptember 05, 2008 China dispatched large numbers of soldiers and armed riot police to quell two major protests, officials and a rights group said Friday, in the latest public discontent to rock...
IOC's gymnastics probe falls well short
By Dan Wetzel - Yahoo! Sports | via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 22, 2008 At least when the NCAA runs one of its bogus investigations of Big State U, it sends some people out in the field, conducts some interviews and...
International Olympic Committee launches probe into He Kexin's age
Tim Reid in Washington, Jeremy Griffin and Jane Macartney in BeijingThe Times (United Kingdom)August 21, 2008 The International Olympic Committee has ordered an investigation into mounting allegations that Chinese authorities covered up the true age of their gold-medal winning gymnastics...
The Olympics' age-old problem
By Dan Wetzel | Yahoo! Sports via UNCENSORED Yahoo! NewsAugust 15, 2008 For a long time, elements of the Chinese government itself thought women's gymnast He Kexin was born Jan. 1, 1994, which would make her 14 and too young...
Records Say Chinese Gymnasts May Be Under Age
By JERÉ LONGMAN and JULIET MACUR | The New York TimesJuly 27, 2008 China named its Olympic women's gymnastics team on Friday, and the inclusion of at least two athletes has further raised questions, widespread in the sport, about whether the...
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