In this edition of Beyond Business, we ask if French farmers and wine growers are carrying a heavier burden than their Spanish peers. This follows claims that French rules on pesticides are much stricter. Some farmers flout the rules, and those who abide by them say they're being weighed down.
After designer handbags, perfumes and tablet computers, the latest global success story to fall victim to Chinese counterfeiting is French wine. The process is easy, a vender tells FRANCE 24, and most customers don’t seem able to tell the difference.
This week our Observers take us on stage with a Lebanese belly dancer, into a Chinese "Apple Stoer," and all the way to Siberia, where a coffin maker from Ghana is working on a very special order.
The business of faking it: every year counterfeit goods worth hundreds of billions of dollars change hands - from handbags to car parts. In this edition of the programme we look at what companies can do to protect their intellectual property. And who's the worst offender? Find out in Beyond Business.
Travelling to Benin, former French president Jacques Chirac called on governments around the world to join the fight against fake medication. In some developing countries, one in four drugs are counterfeit and potentially dangerous.
Every year, 61 million passengers and more than 2 tons of freight pass through Charles de Gaulle airport, in the north of Paris. To control the travellers and the goods, 1,300 custom agents are mobilised 24/7.
Italian police have arrested close to 100 people throughout the country in a bid to dismantle a vast network of counterfeiters who were producing fake euro notes. Police said they seized counterfeit bills worth an estimated €1.23 million.
An unprecedented undercover mission led to the arrest of a Chinese gang peddling fake anti-malaria pills.
The scientific community is asking Asian countries to further cooperate inorder to succeed in the
struggle against counterfeit drugs.
Every year, luxury labels such as Dior, Louis Vuitton and Lacoste, say they lose billions of euros in sales to counterfeiters, a figure they maintain is on the increase. Here are some facts about this black market phenomenon.
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