According to a report by NPR, the cost to obtain a position as a city assemblymen in a town in rural China costs $44,000.

Source:  Anthony Kuhn, “China’s Hidden Economy Of Graft Undermines State,” NPR, July 30, 2010.

In 2009, European Authorities seized 118 million articles of counterfeit goods from entering the union.

The largest category of counterfeit good was clothing, with 27 percent of all seizures being fake clothing.

64 percent of all counterfeit goods seized was from China, a 10 percent increase in the amount of goods seized in 2008.

Source: “EU reports growth in fake goods from China,” BBC News, July 22, 2010.

During the 2010 World Cup, police in Asia arrested over 5,000 people for illegal gambling activities and seized more than $10 Million.

Police in Malaysia, China, Thailand and Singapore raided 800 illegal gambling dens where $155 Million in illegal bets were placed during the World Cup.

Source:  “Thousands held in Asian gambling bust,” CNN, July 16, 2010.

In 2010, out of a total of 130,000 registered Internet cafes in China, roughly 80,000 cafes have never bought legitimate video distribution systems, meaning that they are showing pirated content.

Around 30 percent of Internet cafe customers in China watch movies on the computers.

Source:  Mike Clendenin, “Beijing Cracks Down On Piracy,” InformationWeek, July 14, 2010.

Piracy of video content in China is estimated to cost $1.4 Billion a year.

Source:  Mike Clendenin, “Beijing Cracks Down On Piracy,” InformationWeek, July 14, 2010.

From 2007 to June of 2010, Chinese authorities reported seizing 38,599 animal parts weighing 26.63 tons.

In addition to the wildlife animals, 2,753 rare plant varieties weighing more than 55 tons were seized by Customs.

Source: “Huge pangolin seizure in China,” Traffic, July 13, 2010.

According to a report by Voice of America, girls from Burma/Myanmar between the ages of 16 to 18 are sold as brides in rural China for $700.

Source:  David Henry Morton, “Trafficking in Foreign Women Rises in China,” July 6, 2010.

The paw of a bear killed in Russia and sold by wildlife traffickers in China can fetch prices around $50 (1,500 Rubles).

Source:  Andrew E. Kramer, “At Russia-China Border, Bear Paws Sell Best,” New York Times, June 29, 2010.