Macau is facing the common crime of counterfeit casino chips. In the latest incident, police arrested five men for defrauding a casino using 585 counterfeit chips. Each chip was marked with a denomination of HK$10,000 ($1,280), tricking the casino out of at least HK$1.8 million.

A woman from California, USA, has pleaded guilty to defrauding the United States Postal Service (USPS) out of more than $150 million in a counterfeit postage scam in Los Angeles.

An online recruitment ad in China recently garnered a lot of attention by announcing that couriers were needed to smuggle semiconductor chips, 5kg at a time, into China, with the chips having been illegally rerouted from the US.

In the August edition of Authentication & Brand News™ we looked at how revisions to China’s trademark laws are offering greater protection to foreign brands.