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24 students sick, food poisoning suspected

YICHANG, Hubei - Twenty four students felt sick and dizzy following breakfast at a school cafeteria in Central China's Hubei province Wednesday and may be suffering from food poisoning, said local authorities.

The faculty of Yichang Commercial School, a vocational school in Yichang city, were informed at around 8 am that some students had become sick after eating breakfast, said the municipal publicity department.

The students were treated at local hospitals and are reported to be in stable condition, it said.

Food that might have been related to the incident is being checked at a local hospital and lab results will be released in 48 hours.

No further details have been provided.

BEIJING - China should better handle its identity dilemma, caused by its status as a developing country conflicting with increasing external pressure for it to exert a greater global role, analysts said.

The analysts, attending a forum on Wednesday, had a heated discussion on China's future development amid the background of China's rising economic clout and what kind of role it should play in the world.

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Gustaaf Geeraerts, director of the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, said that despite China's economic achievement, the country is actually quite fragile in several sectors, including its low-ranking per capita GDP, its strong export dependence in combination with an underdeveloped domestic market, and its domestic problems including growing income inequality and environmental degradation.

"China, although growing fast, is at a different stage of development and has to overcome a great number of internal problems before it can take on the full scale of its international responsibilities," said Geeraerts, a leading China study expert in the world.

China has recently overtaken Japan as the world's second-largest economy, causing great expectations about its global strength. However, at $5 trillion, China's economy is still much smaller than the economy of the United States at $14 trillion, and the European Union at $18 trillion.

China's per capita GDP is very low, at about $3,700, compared to more than $45,000 for the US in 2009. In per capita annual income, China ranks only around the 100th in the world, Geeraerts said.

Yet the sheer size of China's development is changing the logic of globalization and makes it a critical factor in the international economy, Geeraerts said.

Therefore, Beijing is facing an ever-harder quandary between its identity as a developing country and its identity as an emerging power, said Geeraerts, who also noted that China's objective to sustain its rapid domestic growth sometimes puts the country at odds with Western interests.

As a result, Beijing is being pressured to strike a precarious balance between domestic economic development, which it sees as the most pressing challenge, and the evolution of China into a responsible great power, which it sees as the longer-term ambition, Geeraerts said.

Other experts shared similar ideas. Wu Baiyi, an expert on Latin American studies at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, said China should lay the foundation of its diplomatic politics with other developing countries, which share wide common interests and history with China.

People living in newly emerging markets and other developing countries account for about 55 percent of the world's total population, said Jin Canrong, a professor with the Beijing-based Renmin University of China.

Therefore, the 15 percent of the population in the West must coordinate with the majority that will determine the landscape of the future world, he emphasized. Due to its complicated internal situation, China will still give priority to its domestic development, he said.

Wang Chenyan contributed to this story

Seoul unveils sanctions against Iran (Xinhua) Updated: 2010-09-08 15:25

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SEOUL -- The Republic of Korea (ROK) unveiled independent sanctions on Iran Wednesday for its contentious nuclear program suspected to be a cover for developing nuclear weapons, joining the US-led campaign to punish the country.

Seoul blacklisted 102 entities and 24 individuals believed to be involved in Tehran's nuclear activities, and decided impose a "severe penalty" on the Seoul branch of Bank Mellat, the only Iranian bank in the country suspected of illicit financial transactions aiding the nuclear program.

The previous probe into Bank Mellat by Seoul's financial authorities revealed violations of the Foreign Exchange Transaction Act, the government said. The U.N. accused the bank of having "facilitated hundreds of millions of dollars in transactions to help aid Iran's nuclear, missile, and defense entities."

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"Transactions by Bank Mellat that involves only one dollar will still have to gain prior government approval," a government official told reporters after a joint briefing by ROK's foreign ministry, the Financial Supervisory Service (FSS) and the finance ministry.

Fifteen Iranian banks, including Bank Mellat, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), the Islamic Republic of Iran Shipping Lines (IRISL), have been blacklisted. CISCO Shipping Company and Iran Petrochemical Commercial Company are among other Iranian entities that made their names in Seoul's bad books.

Under Seoul's sanctions, adopted in addition to U.N. sanctions over Tehran's uranium enrichment program that some say is a cover for developing nuclear weapons, all financial institutions here will have to report to the ROK authorities or gain prior permission if they are to engage in financial transactions worth more than 10,000 Euros with Iran.

Seoul will also step up Iran-related cargo inspections, put blacklisted entities and individuals on travel ban list and limit the country's investment into Iran's gas and oil refinery industries.

The independent sanctions came after the United States ramped up its efforts to push Seoul to join its campaign to foil Iran's alleged nuclear ambition. Robert Einhorn, the State Department's special adviser for nonproliferation and arms control, visited Seoul in August to press the issue.

Officials from Tehran, denying the charge and claiming its nuclear activities are all for peaceful purposes, threatened countermeasures.

Seoul's additional sanctions are meant to prop up global nonproliferation efforts as a "responsible member of the international society,"and the government takes the issue particularly seriously as it is related to nuclear issues of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, a senior government official told reporters after the joint briefing.

It was the government's own decision to impose the "unilateral" sanctions, and the measures are based on the existing U.N. resolution, he added.

Despite the government's efforts to "minimize damage" the sanctions might bring about, concerns still linger over worsening financial ties with Iran. Seoul relies on Tehran, the biggest trade partner in the Middle East, for 10 percent of its crude oil imports. Some 2,000 small and mid-sized enterprises have tapped into the fast-growing Iranian market.

The government will still maintain legitimate trade relations with Iran, and will take measures to support domestic small and mid-sized firms, foreign ministry spokesman Kim Young-sun told reporters.

The European Union, Australia, Canada and Japan have announced separate sanctions against Iran.