In a follow-up to There’s No Limit to What China Will Rip-Off Associated Press is out with a report that five (5) fake Apple stores were found in the offending city. See China officials find 5 fake Apple stores in 1 city Now all of this was started by an American citizen living in the […]

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Associated Press is out with a story iFraud: Entire Apple stores being faked in China on not just fake Apple computer products but folks in China are now faking whole Apple computer stores: BEIJING (AP) — It looks almost exactly like a sleek Apple store. Sales assistants in blue T-shirts with the company’s logo chat […]

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An adage amongst the internet generation is that “information wants to be free.” China’s current attempt to put the genie back in the bottle is to try to restrict internet access to sites that track and report bribes as the Associated Press reports. In a further mashing of metaphors, its a ‘see no evil’ situation. […]

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Bloomberg is out with a report on China clamping down on export quota’s for rare earth metals leading to a recent doubling of prices. This is what one gets from economic imperialism. Attack other countries’ production capabilities by subsidizing the attacking country’s producers so they have a cost advantage. After driving out the other countries’ […]

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It appears that an analysis by the People’s Bank of China, China’s central bank, reports that approximately 18,000 Chinese government officials have stolen about $120 billion over the years and fled China. Their favorite destination? The USA. There are multiple reasons why this is likely. Such as little things like some semblance of the rule […]

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The New York Times is out with a piece about terrible lead poisoning in China and how it is affecting their population called “Lead Poisoning in China: The Hidden Scourge.” From the article: News had spread that workers and villagers had been poisoned by lead emissions from the factory, which had operated for six years […]

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Business Insider is a news site that covers current hot topics. They just posted a series of pictures and graphs on facts about China that most folks don’t know. One that jumped out is: China’s GDP per capita is the 91st-lowest in the world, below Bosnia & Herzegovina Other facts include: China’s enormous Gobi Desert […]

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Columnist Floyd Norris of the New York Times reports on recent findings of collusion and corruption leading to China’s newest toxic export – stocks. See The Audacity of Chinese Frauds Norris reports: To pull off a fraud that humiliates the cream of the global financial elite, you need to have some friends. And where better […]

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An explosion over the weekend killed three employees at a plant for the company that makes Apple ipods and ipads. Although this is showing up in technology trade magazines, it is also making to more general media web-sites. The Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM) released a 20-page report (PDF) on May 6 on […]

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The headline for the AP wire story is intriguiging, watermelons uncontrollably bursting, but it points to further systemic problems to poor regulation and criminal producers driving out legal ones. As the report mentions: Watermelons have been bursting by the score in eastern China after farmers gave them overdoses of growth chemicals during wet weather, creating […]

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