In other words, the largest state-operated workers comp fund in the country had massively misrepresented its performance.

FORBES: Financial Watchdog

Other worthy prospects on the road to privatization: Vietcombank, which Ryder calls "far and away the best-managed-and-operated state-owned bank, " and Mobifone and Vinaphone, mobile carriers that are just beginning to penetrate the market (only 23% of Vietnam's citizens have a cell phone).

FORBES: Red Shares

Beijing broke the code over a decade ago concerning the contribution bond offerings by state-owned or operated companies like CITIC could make to expanding China's sources of international borrowing.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The mine in Maizhokunggar county, which produces copper, as well as some silver and gold, is operated by a subsidiary of state-owned China National Gold Group, China's biggest gold producer.

BBC: Tibet mine landslide: Hopes fade for survivors

The agency, responsible for care and services for 126, 000 disabled New Yorkers, reported two weeks ago that abuse allegations declined last year by 22 percent in state-run facilities and by 9.5 percent at others operated by its nonprofit contractors, citing cited reforms over the past two years, including better incident reporting and investigations.

WSJ: Worker sues NY over disabled care, retaliation

In Venezuela the authorities first raised the royalties on Total's output, and then demanded that the state-owned oil company be granted a majority stake in several fields operated by Total.

ECONOMIST: Face value

Oil prices spiked in 2006, when an oil spill in a BP-operated Alaskan field briefly threatened to cut off half of the state's production for months.

WSJ: Drilling Rules Hit Alaska Pipeline

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) must establish a Consumer Operated and Oriented Plan (CO-OP) in every state to compete as a nonprofit-like entity against health care insurers.

FORBES: CO-OP Health Plans A Fiscal Cliff Victim

Such a regime was developed and operated for the last six years, by Timberlands West Coast, a New Zealand state-owned enterprise.

ECONOMIST: Fact or fission