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March 20, 2014

The China unit of Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN:US), the world’s largest e-commerce company, closed a third-party online store after...

March 20, 2014

We’ve reported extensively on the fierce jostling for supremacy in Belize’s export cigarette market. It is a huge...

March 18, 2014

Coimbatore: Video Piracy Cell has seized fake phone accessories and products, being stored and sold under a popular brand, worth...

March 14, 2014

Five men from Sandwell have been arrested as part of an investigation into a suspected £120m tobacco smuggling fraud. Early...

March 14, 2014

From drugs to gadgets, the share of counterfeits in global trade, according to an OECD estimate, stands at 7-10%. The...

March 13, 2014

Police on Thursday claimed to have busted a petroleum-product smuggling gang, operating from the Mathura refinery by arresting...

March 7, 2014

Authorities say they have taken down a major counterfeiting operation in five locations across Nassau County. Nassau County...

March 5, 2014

There is a high chance that the medicines prescribed routinely may not be helping people as they are just duds. Drugs as common...

March 5, 2014

When Tamer Ahmed was a child, his three year-old sister died because she had been given a counterfeit vaccine. Years later, still...

March 4, 2014

Black market sales of counterfeit and substandard mobile phones are a US$6 billion a year problem, says a new report into the...

March 3, 2014

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘Counterfeit: Don’t buy into organised crime’ initiative will boost...

March 3, 2014

Tata Motors has commenced a systematic multi-pronged campaign against the sale of spurious spare parts to protect its customers...