Serious Winnie Jinping Caught With Pants Down Over Fake Vaccines In Chinkland! Still Think Chinks Can Make Missiles When They Can't Make Milk Or Medicine?

[JohnTan]

Beijing is seeking to quell public anger over the revelation that a pharmaceutical company distributed hundreds of thousands of faulty vaccines, sparking a nationwide outcry following a series of similar food and drug safety scandals.

Regulators said that Changchun Changsheng Biotech had forged data during the production of some 110,000 rabies vaccines and disclosed that the same company had also sold more than 250,000 “substandard” diphtheria, tetanus and pertussis (DTP) vaccines to medical centres last year.

Changsheng is China’s largest listed vaccine producer by revenue, with 110m doses of different vaccines sold domestically since 2012.

It was not clear how many people had received the faulty vaccines or what the effect of receiving them could be.

After the two announcements last week, the scandal became by far the most-discussed topic on Chinese social media at the weekend, with anger aimed at the company increasingly spreading to government officials as commentators pointed to failures in China’s regulatory and political system.

“All I want is to find out the truth. When the fraud started, how many fraudulent batches there are, how they were produced illegally and what kind of harm there will be. We as parents want solutions,” said Carol Zhou, a Beijing mother of a seven-year-old son who received Changsheng’s DTP vaccine.

Xi Jinping, China’s president, attempted to reassure parents in a statement published by state-media on Monday while he was on a state visit to Rwanda. Changsheng had violated laws and regulations and would be investigated, Mr Xi said, adding that drug safety was the ruling Communist party’s “unshirkable responsibility”. It followed a similar statement late on Sunday by Li Keqiang, Chinese premier.

All I want is to find out the truth. When the fraud started, how many fraudulent batches there are, how they were produced illegally, and what kind of harm there will be. We as parents want solutions

Carol Zhou, a parent
But Chinese consumers have become used to such pledges from China’s government following safety scandals, notably in 2008 when six babies died and tens of thousands were hospitalised after milk powder was tainted with the toxic chemical melamine.

Internet users pointed out that Sun Xianze, an official who was disciplined over the milk scandal, was made a top official responsible for drug safety in 2014.

Three years ago the country saw a similar outcry after thousands of ineffective vaccines were revealed to have been sold on the black market, prompting an overhaul of the country’s drug distribution system.

The result is widespread mistrust of official information. “Beijing’s Center for Disease Control said that the problematic rabies vaccine and DTP vaccines have not been used in the city, but we are very suspicious about it,” said Ms Zhou, adding that a group of parents had rallied on social media service WeChat and planned to question officials.

Internet users also blamed endemic bribery in China’s healthcare system for the distribution of low-quality drugs. Several Chinese health officials have been prosecuted in recent years for accepting bribes from Changsheng, according to court records.

The company recorded a net profit of nearly Rmb500m ($74m) last year. Its share price fell by the maximum 10 per cent on the Shenzhen exchange on Monday after a five day run of maximum losses which wiped Rmb9bn from its market value and prompted a sell-off in the stocks of other drugmakers.

Analysts said the scandal would hamper China’s efforts to promote its domestic drug industry as it seeks a larger share of the global market and tries to cut medical spending. Multinationals typically charge premium prices for imported drugs as they are more trusted by Chinese patients.

“This incident is definitely a big blow to the trustworthiness of domestic drugs. It is foreseeable that in the future parents will choose imports whenever possible,” said Lin Jianghan, a partner at Ernst & Young.

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The Ah Tiongs learned this from the PAP. CON You kept telling the Ah Tiongs to put money first.

 

[Leongsam]

What surprises me is that people still buy chink brand mobiles. They are full of embedded spyware.

https://www.voanews.com/a/chinese-android-phone-shipped-with-malware/1940771.html

That cheap smartphone you may have purchased may come preloaded with an unwelcome app – one that can turn your phone into a sophisticated spying device.

German researchers say they found that the Star N9500 Android smartphone, which is a knockoff of the popular Samsung Galaxy S4, is infected with spyware capable of retrieving personal data, intercepting calls and text messages, and having its camera and microphone operated remotely. Someone with control of the phone could also install other nefarious applications.

According to German security firm G DATA, which discovered the malware, personal information collected by the phone is then sent back “to a server located in China and is able to covertly install additional applications.”

The infection is so bad that large online retailers like eBay and Amazon removed the phone from their inventories though when VOA last checked, Amazon was still selling another Star model smartphone.

“Due to reports that some Star N9500 smartphones are loaded with spyware, eBay is not allowing the sale of these devices as a precautionary measure,” a spokesman for eBay said in an email.

G DATA first became aware of the spyware after receiving tips from owners.

One of the first red flags was that the manuals included with the phone had no information about how to contact the company, said Thorsten Urbanski, a spokesman for G DATA.

Urbanski added that in China, vendors must have website for customer support.

“They don’t have one,” he said. “It’s very strange.”

A deeper analysis revealed that the phones’ parts included no information about the manufacturer and many of the serial numbers were peculiar, according to Urbanski.

They then analyzed the phone’s firmware and discovered malware called Android.Trojan.Uupay.D, which was disguised as an app in the Google Play store.

According to G DATA, the “spy function is invisible to the user and cannot be deactivated.” Furthermore, the program blocks the installation of security updates.

Urbanski said one of the alarming aspects of the phone is the number sold, which is hard to tell. The price for the phone ranges from $177 to $225, considerably less than one would pay for the Samsung Galaxy S4.

“It seems to be one of the best-selling low-cost smartphones,” he said.

According to the Pew Research Internet Project, 58 percent of American adults have a smartphone. Android phones attract 98 percent of mobile phone malware, according to Internet security firm Kaspersky.

While the Star N9500 is currently the focus of attention, Urbanski said G DATA was in the process of analyzing other Star phones as well as other brands to see if they have the same firmware infection. He added that Samsung phones as well as Chinese Huawei phones did not appear to be compromised.

Cyber security expert Christopher Burgess, CEO of Prevendra, Inc., an Internet security firm, said if the phones are counterfeit copies of the Samsung phone “one should not be surprised that counterfeit hardware comes pre-loaded with ‘value added features’ which enhance the profitability for the counterfeit manufacturer.”

“It is a bit of karma for those who support the supply chain of counterfeit goods, and drives home the point, if the deal is too good to be true, it probably is,” he said.