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The 17th edition of this publication contains information on the largest companies in the Asia Pacific region, including the region's 500 most profitable companies, the region's 100 largest companies by industry sector for the region as a whole and within Japan specifically, and the largest companies ranked by sales figures for individual countries. It covers the following countries: China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan and Thailand. Companies are indexed by company name and trade sectors, and data includes location of headquarters and contact details, sales and profitability, number of employees, capital structure, and UN international classification standard activity (ISIC) code. The publication is also available with the CD-ROM edition (ISBN 094805882X).