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Friday, March 11, 2016 |
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South-east Asia awash with fake drugs
20% of malaria deaths blamed on
bogus cures · Hi-tech counterfeiting racket based in China
Ian MacKinnon, South-east Asia correspondent
Thursday February 22, 2007
The Guardian, UK
An "epidemic" of counterfeit therapeutic drugs is sweeping
south-east Asia, costing hundreds of thousands of lives as
victims take them under the mistaken belief that they are
receiving vital treatment for their illnesses. A British
doctor working in the Laotian capital, Vientiane, found that
most of the anti-malarial medicines tested in a sample were
sophisticated fakes, often displaying holograms on the
packaging, originally aimed at making counterfeiting
difficult....More
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Golden Jubilee Trade and Exhibition Fair
opens
GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Wednesday, opened the
11th Ghana International Golden Jubilee Trade and Exhibition
Fair urging local businesses especially small and medium scale
enterprises to explore joint ventures possibilities to forge
strategic partnerships.........More |
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Nigeria cracks
down on migrants
BBC - Nigeria is
cracking down on "illegal aliens" from
neighbouring countries whom the authorities call
a "nuisance". .....People
from Ghana, Togo, Cameroon and other West
African countries have also been removed from at
least eight major cities across the country....More |
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South-east Asia awash with
fake drugs
Guardian, UK - Twenty percent of
malaria deaths blamed on bogus cures · Hi-tech
counterfeiting racket based in China blamed .......More
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Kufuor holds meeting with the Council of
State
GNA - President John Agyekum Kufuor on Thursday met with the
Council of State behind closed doors at the Castle, Osu.. ....More |
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