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Chinese writers accuse iPad while sales of new version off to strong start

Ellen Wallace — Tue, 20 Mar 2012 14:37:54 +0000

GenevaLunch.com GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – Apple says Tuesday 20 March that 3 million of its new iPads have been sold since they hit the market Friday, four days earlier. It announced Monday that it will be paying investors dividends later this year, for the first time since 1995. But not everyone is happy. A group of 22 [...]

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Russia and China remain on US pirates list

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 04 May 2011 15:24:45 +0000

GenevaLunch.com It’s the 14th year running that Russia has made the US list for countries that don’t do enough to fight pirated goods, and the 7th year for China. The 2011 list was released by US Trade Representative Ron Kirk in Washington, who called on the many countries on the “Special 301 Report” list to do [...]

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Kenya opens new court for piracy cases

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 08:13:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Kenya is the country with the highest number of high seas piracy cases, with 123 people held to date, of whom 18 have been convicted, according to AllAfrica. A new high security courtroom in the port city of Mombasa, to try piracy suspects, has just been opened. The UN Office on Drugs and Crime and [...]

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Spanish foreign minister calls for EU blockade on pirate ports in Somalia

Sean Ecker — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:11:50 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Foreign Minister Carme Chacón said Wednesday that she will propose to EU foreign ministers meeting in Brussels next Monday and Tuesday that the EU’s anti-piracy campaign in the Indian Ocean off the coast of Somalia, Operation Atalanta, change its strategy, and that it blockade three ports that she says are the source of the pirate [...]

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Somali pirates fire on US Navy helicopter

Sean Ecker — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 07:50:27 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Pirates holding a Taiwanese-flagged ship since 6 April off the coast of Somalia fired on a US Navy helicopter that was monitoring it, 26 August. The US Navy says that the helicopter was not hit and the crew did not return fire. The Win Far was captured 6 April and has been used by the [...]

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Missing ship Arctic Sea found off Cape Verde – pirate suspects arrested

Sean Ecker — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 06:11:06 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Update 12:30. Russia’s defense minister has confirmed that the Arctic Sea, a Malta-registered ship found off Cape Verde 17 August was the victim of a pirate attack 24 July. Eight men including Russians, Estonians and Latvians have been arrested. BBC, CNN The Arctic Sea, a cargo ship that loaded timber in Finland and was en [...]

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China weighs WTO decision on books, CDs, films, downloads

Ellen Wallace — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 18:10:12 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) - China reacted with disappointment Thursday 13 August to the report issued by the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Geneva on its publications and audiovisual materials dispute with the US. The WTO ruled that China must open its market more to the import of US films, DVDs, books and music downloads to [...]

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First of August: Swiss National Day celebrates 15th birthday

Laila Rodriguez — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:56:26 +0000

GenevaLunch.com Geneva, Switzerland (GenevaLunch) – Switzerland celebrates its National Day 1 August, a time when families tend to get together and the Swiss return to their “home” towns, which is not necessarily where they grew up, but the town where their family is registered. Watch those fireworks Expect bonfires and fireworks: some 1,700 tons of pyrotechnics [...]

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French could cut off Internet pirates

Ellen Wallace — Wed, 13 May 2009 05:23:07 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The French parliament is expected to pass a “Draconian” Internet piracy law today. People caught illegally downloading copyrighted material would be given three warnings before their Internet access was cut off for a year. The proposed legislation could run afoul of the Eurpean Convention of Human Rights, however, reports the Financial Times, which says it [...]

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Beijing’s vendors of pirated goods fight back

Ellen Wallace — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 08:08:15 +0000

GenevaLunch.com The Chinese government has been cracking down on the “wiley” population of street vendors who hawk counterfeit goods, but the hawkers are fighting back in a battle that highlights an underlying problem: “China’s government has pledged to crack down, and it faces increasing pressure to show progress. But some doubt much will change until China [...]

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