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China has 136 firms listed in The Forbes Global 2000 this year, 15 more than last year, as the nation gained more ground amid the world’s biggest and most powerful public companies.
The Forbes Global 2000 by Forbes magazine, an annual list of the top 2000 public companies worldwide since 2003, ranks firms according to their composite scores based on sales, profits, assets and market value.
The 136 Chinese companies, led by the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) that ranks 5 on the list, are worth $2.8 trillion in aggregate market value.
As for other Chinese companies among the world’s top 20, Petro China came in as the 7th most powerful, followed by the China Construction Bank at 13 and the Agricultural Bank of China at 19.

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China is the third largest country in terms of membership, after the US (524 firms) and Japan (258 firms). The Asia-Pacific region has produced 733 names on the list, running far ahead for the fifth year of other regions – Europe, the Middle East and Africa-EMEA.
The top three seats on The Global 2000 are taken by Exxon Mobile, JPMorgan Chase, and General Electric.

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A plan to add a quit-smoking program to China’s basic healthcare system sparked a hot debate since it was released by Chinese Health Minister Chen Zhu at a forum in Shanghai on March 31. But it now gets support from authorities, People’s Daily reported on Friday.
“I strongly support adding smoking cessation counseling and medicine to the state’s healthcare system,” said Huang Jiefu, the vice minister of Health. “If we begrudge spending now, we have to pay more in the future because smoking is an important cause of many diseases.”
Huang said the cost of helping a person quit smoking is about 500 yuan ($79) to 2,000 yuan, but lung cancer treatment costs would be over 100,000 yuan.

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Statistics show about 1.2 million Chinese people die of smoking-related diseases every year, exceeding the total deaths from AIDS, tuberculosis, traffic accidents and suicide. So smoking is not a small public health problem, and quit-smoking programs should be added into the healthcare system, said Jiang Huan, vice director of the tobacco control office of the Chinese CDC.
Smoking addiction is a chronic disease, and drug therapy is a way to treat the disease. This will be good news for the 750 million people in China who are exposed to secondhand smoke, meaning 80 percent of people in China are at risk of smoking-related diseases, said Xiao Dan, an expert at the Beijing Breathing Disease Institute.

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China’s Ministry of Transport announced that it will continue to encourage more private capital to be invested in the transportation sector, Beijing Times reported Friday.

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Private investments are permitted to enter the transportation infrastructure, services and new fields of the sector. The ministry said private capital can be invested in urban public transportation and rural long-distance transportation, according to the report.

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Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, 32, arrives in court in Oslo on Feb 6. Daniel Sannum Lauten / Agence France-Presse The new conclusion comes just six days before Anders Behring Breivik is scheduled to go on trial on terror charges for the massacre on July 22, and could prompt prosecutors to seek a prison sentence instead of compulsory commitment to psychiatric care. It conflicts with an earlier assessment, which found Breivik psychotic both during and after the attacks, and diagnosed him as

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Norwegian right-wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, 32, arrives in court in Oslo on Feb 6. Daniel Sannum Lauten / Agence France-Presse The new conclusion comes just six days before Anders Behring Breivik is scheduled to go on trial on terror charges for the massacre on July 22, and could prompt prosecutors to seek a prison sentence instead of compulsory commitment to psychiatric care. It conflicts with an earlier assessment, which found Breivik psychotic both during and after the attacks, and diagnosed him as a paranoid schizophrenic.

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The court will take both psychiatric assessments into account during the trial, which starts on Monday and is scheduled to last 10 weeks. The new assessment was made by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas on a request from the court after widespread criticism against the first diagnosis. “Our conclusion is that he is not psychotic at the time of the actions of terrorism and he is not psychotic now,” Toerrissen said.

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The full report was confidential and the psychiatrists declined to give details on why they reached a different conclusion than the first team of experts that examined Breivik. They said they will present their reasoning when they testify in the trial.

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The court will take both psychiatric assessments into account during the trial, which starts on Monday and is scheduled to last 10 weeks. The new assessment was made by psychiatrists Terje Toerrissen and Agnar Aspaas on a request from the court after widespread criticism against the first diagnosis. “Our conclusion is that he is not psychotic at the time of the actions of terrorism and he is not psychotic now,” Toerrissen said.

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The full report was confidential and the psychiatrists declined to give details on why they reached a different conclusion than the first team of experts that examined Breivik. They said they will present their reasoning when they testify in the trial.

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Beijing on Wednesday protested against the Philippines sending a warship to arrest Chinese fishermen on the South China Sea. The attempt to arrest the fishermen was blocked by two Chinese patrol ships.

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The dispute — which the two countries said will be resolved diplomatically — is a sign of rising maritime tension and reflects China’s determination to protect its interests, analysts said.
The attempt at “law enforcement” by the Philippines in the waters of Huangyan Island on the South China Sea “infringed China’s sovereignty”, Foreign Ministry spokesman Liu Weimin said on Wednesday.

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“We made solemn representations to Manila on the Philippine warship and surveillance vessels harassing China’s fishing boats and fishermen in a lagoon in China’s Huangyan Island in the South China Sea,” he said.
The Chinese embassy in Manila received a report on Tuesday that 12 Chinese fishing boats which sailed into the waters of Huangyan Island to shelter from bad weather were challenged by a Philippine navy warship.

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Twelve sailors from the warship, six of whom were armed, boarded the Chinese vessels and harassed the fishermen, the embassy said. The Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs also confirmed the boarding of the dispatched team in a news release.
Two Chinese surveillance ships, Haijian 75 and Haijian 84, on routine patrol, arrived and prevented the Philippines from detaining the boats and the fishermen.
The two patrol ships are still monitoring the waters and “fulfilling duties to guard China’s maritime rights and interests”, according to the State Oceanic Administration.

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China’s Big Four banks issued 294.6 billion yuan ($467 billion) of new yuan-denominated loans in March, above the credit limit of 269 billion yuan set by the central bank, the 21st century Business Herald reported Friday, citing an unnamed source.
During the same month, the Big Four banks – namely Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, China Construction Bank, Bank of China and the Agricultural Bank of China – gained 2.25 trillion yuan in yuan-denominated deposits, much higher than the 670 billion yuan they gained in February.

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China’s banking sector may have lent 770 billion yuan to 840 billion yuan in yuan-denominated loans during March, higher than the anticipated 700 billion yuan to 800 billion yuan, China International Capital Corporation Limited (CICC), an investment bank, predicted. The Big Four banks’ newly-added yuan-denominated loans account for 35 percent to 38 percent of all new yuan-denominated loans.

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New loans in March may lift the amount of lending by the banking sector in the first quarter of this year to 2.25 trillion yuan, close to 2.24 trillion yuan in the first quarter of 2011.

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Trading people’s private information could be outlawed under a draft bill being considered in Hebei province to bar businesses from selling personal data, Beijing Times reported on Monday.
Finance, insurance, telecom, water supply, and medicine companies would be fined up to 500,000 yuan ($74,349) for selling people’s information. Individuals would face a 50,000 yuan fine ($7,434), the paper said citing a source.

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The regulation would also require social organizations to clarify the purposes of collecting personal information, the paper reported.

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INFOGRAPHIE – Le suspect circule à moto, et l’arme utilisée a servi pour les quatre crimes.

La piste du tueur en série se précise dans l’Essonne. Comme l’a révélé vendredi Le Figaro, l’arme qui a servi dans quatre assassinats successifs depuis novembre est bien la même. En clair: les rayures laissées par le canon sur les projectiles retrouvés dans le corps des victimes sont identiques. Les douilles retrouvées sur les scènes de crime portent également la même trace de percuteur. Les balles ont été tirées par un pistolet semi-automatique de 7.65 mm, un calibre très répandu. Si la première victime a reçu plusieurs balles dans le corps, les trois autres ont été abattues d’une seule balle, à chaque fois dans la tête. «Le mode opératoire n’est pas identique», a confirmé la procureur de la République d’Évry.

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Au lendemain de la mort, survenue jeudi, de la dernière victime, une femme d’origine algérienne abattue à Grigny par un homme à moto, le ministre de l’Intérieur, Claude Guéant, a dit «redouter» qu’un tueur en série solitaire ne soit passé à l’action. Il a toutefois précisé que «pour le premier des meurtres, qui remonte à novembre de l’année dernière, un auteur présumé a été interpellé». Il s’agit de l’ancien compagnon de la première victime, ­Michel C. La petite quarantaine, il est décrit, de source policière, comme «très antipathique, violent, mais socialement inséré». Sans emploi, il bénéficie du statut de travailleur handicapé.

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Most countries have a military budget, China’s is neither the largest nor the fastest growing compared with other nations
Each year when China’s top legislature and advisory body meet for their annual sessions in Beijing and announce the country’s military budget, the Western media are guaranteed to peddle stories about the “China threat” with scare mongering headlines.

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They know only too well, of course, that most countries in the world have a military budget, and the China’s is neither the largest nor the fastest growing. In terms of size, the US military budget for 2012-2013 is $662 billion, compared to China’s $106 billion. In terms of growth, India’s budget for 2012-2013 is 17 per cent more than the previous one, while China will see a rise of merely 11.2 per cent. Why does no one point a finger at the United States or India as a military threat?
Every cent that is spent on the Chinese military is to safeguard its citizens and its territory and help maintain peace.

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Last year, China spent $75 to protect each of its citizens, and $9.72 to protect each square kilometer of its land. The US on the other hand spent $2,201 to protect each of its citizens and $75.3 to protect each square kilometer of its territory. It is not difficult to see which country is the real threat.
Some have alleged that China’s military budget has outgrown its demand for self-defense, but it should be pointed out that China has never staged any military exercises off the coast of another country or carried out any close reconnaissance of another country. And it is worth remembering that China has never seized a single inch of another country or region’s territory. On the contrary, others are occupying its reefs and isles and plundering its resources. China is justified in spending money on its military to keep its territory intact.

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PYONGYANG – Some 30 foreign reporters from around the world are in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) capital to cover the country’s satellite launch, the official news agency KCNA reported Saturday.
According to the report, a total of 21 foreign media, including major world wire services and television broadcasters such as the AP, CNN and NBC of the United States, Channel One (the First Channel TV) of Russia, Kyodo News Agency and NHK of Japan, AFP of France, and Reuters and BBC of Britain, have sent reporters to Pyongyang.
Also on Saturday, Pyongyang bureaus of Xinhua and other foreign media received an invitation to attend authorities-organized activities relating to the launch on Sunday, but no further details were revealed.

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The DPRK announced on March 16 it would launch the Kwangmyongsong-3 satellite between April 12 and 16 to mark the 100th birthday of late leader Kim Il-Sung.
The “earth observation” satellite, to be carried by a long-range Unha-3 rocket, will be launched south of Cholsan County, North Phyongan Province, the KCNA reported.
On March 17, the Korean Committee for Space Technology (KCST) extended invitations for foreign experts and journalists to visit the “Sohae” Satellite Launching Station, the General Satellite Control and Command Center and other places and observe the launch.

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