1.   Ewing said the Chinese factories were able to make pirated discs within days of the release of almost any major recording.

2.   It was unclear if the factories were producing pirated discs again, but the reopenings could violate the U.S.-China agreement, the Tribune said.

3.   Most of the video CD sites on the Internet say they sell only legitimately manufactured video CDs rather than pirated discs.

4.   The British colony is the destination of millions of Chinese-made pirated discs each year.

5.   Peddlers openly sell pirated discs on streets and in bars and restaurants.

6.   Pirated video discs of Hollywood, Hong Kong and Bollywood movies are hugely popular in this Southeast Asian country, where sellers operate openly at street stalls.

7.   A government statement said the anti-piracy operation, codenamed Thunderbolt, forced the closure of a large number of shops selling such pirated discs at shopping arcades.

8.   A police launch was dispatched Monday night after a tip that two vessels loaded with pirated discs were unloading at a port in the city of Huizhou that night.

9.   Both groups said the first step is to close down the illegal CD factories, which are flooding the music market with pirated discs.

10.   Despite repeated crackdowns, movie and music piracy is rampant in Malaysia, where pirated video discs sell for about half the price of a cinema ticket.