Customs officers in China’s port city of Xiamen seized a load of end-of-life electronics last month, claiming the material didn't meet e-scrap import standards.
The country’s General Administration of Customs reported last week on a load of 7.4 tons of LCDs that had been seize
Authorities recently handed down several penalties for improper management of scrap electronics.
On March 6 and March 13, a court in Hong Kong, a semi-autonomous region of China, 
Providing less than a day of warning, China began imposing a 25 percent tariff on recovered aluminum shipments from the U.S. this week.
The metal is one among 128 U.S. products China slapped duties on starting April 2.
The Indian government has released rules intended to bolster an organized system of e-scrap processing by gradually increasing collection requirements for manufacturers.
On March 23, the Minister for Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Harsh Vardhan, announced amendments to the country's e-scrap management rules, according to a 
A Singapore leader says the small Southeast Asian country will implement extended producer responsibility for electronics by 2021.
Facing a low recycling rate for electronics, the island country of nearly 6 million people will implement a mandatory collection and recycling program, said Amy Khor, senior minister of state for the Environmen
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An e-scrap processor is refuting allegations by Basel Action Network that the company shipped a broken monitor to Asia.
Basel Action Network (BAN), a Seattle-based watchdog group, 
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Four e-scrap companies have issued statements after being tagged by the Basel Action Network for allegedly exporting scrap printers and LCD monitors.
Seattle-based Basel Action Network (BAN)