International Semi-Tech Microsystems

[2] Founded by Chinese-born Hong Kong-Canadian businessman James Ting in 1981, the firm had manufacturing facilities in China.

Macau gambling tycoon Stanley Ho was once the firm's Chairman.

It was renamed Semi-Tech Corporation in 1994 as it diversified into consumer products.

The company had bad bonds and millions of dollars of Canadian shareholders were burned.

[5] Ting was convicted of false accounting on Semi-Tech and its successor Akai Holdings and his other business Singer Corporation.