The two most important groups are the overseas Chinese and the Indians.
Modern Mormons have something in common with other industrious minorities, such as Parsees, who are prominent in corporate India, the overseas Chinese and Jews.
State media have not confirmed reports by Tibetan rights blogger Woeser and overseas Chinese-language media on the self-burning death of Lhamo Kyab in Gansu's Xiahe county on Monday.
And some printed and digitized culture is spread regionally through cross-border communities such as overseas Chinese, Indians and Filipinos.
Yangon has a pleasant charm and gentle energy, with vast gardens and riverside walks, the grandeur of centuries-old monuments such as the Shwedegon Pagoda, a fast-growing cultural scene of art galleries and music performances, and a melting pot population of all Myanmar's tribes as well as industrious overseas Indians and Chinese, who make up 5% of the nation's population.
Chinese oil and coal companies have been looking overseas in their quest to secure energy supplies, pitching the Chinese flag in places like Sudan, which Western companies had largely abandoned under international pressure.
The West often criticizes Chinese companies for being too secretive, and in the last few years, Chinese businesses have seen overseas expansion plans suffer setbacks in part because of their lack of transparency.
Until recently, the demand for global hotel brands and good air links mainly came from overseas business travellers, mainly Chinese and Europeans, and the business and leisure sector afforded by domestic oil and gas wealth.
In May, jingdaily.com posted a roundup of Chinese-language articles that looked at the possible benefits a depreciating euro would have for Chinese travelers, shoppers and overseas students.
And it was the cosy, crony capitalism practised by the overseas Chinese, with its murky accounting and bank loans for friends, that allowed so many Asian firms to over-borrow and get into their current mess.
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Chinese oil and coal companies were among the first to look overseas in their quest for energy supplies, pitching the Chinese flag in places like Sudan, which Western companies had largely abandoned under international pressure.
The flow of Chinese investment overseas and investment in China by foreign multinationals will, if history is a guide, spur still more trade between China and others.
On April 22, the 21st Century Business Herald reported that regulators will allow a first batch of 10 foreign and overseas-listed Chinese companies to list on the board.
Second, the overseas Vietnamese are both a smaller and a more westernised bunch than the overseas Chinese.
Rough competition and weaker overseas markets have hit Chinese solar entrepreneurs hard in the several years.
With Beijing traditionally having kept tight control over foreign exchange, CDB and to a lesser extent the Export-Import Bank of China, a fellow policy bank have dominated the funding of overseas projects and investments of Chinese firms.
The New York Times won four awards including two awards for its reporting on Apple and Wal-Mart overseas, and another for an examination of the hidden wealth of the Chinese premier's family.
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The branch is attaching increasing importance to the loan business for Chinese companies during their overseas merger and acquisition activities.
The government based its plea on testimony from the FBI's chief investigator in the case, Robert Messemer, who said Lee had engaged in a pattern of deceit, misled the government about his contacts with Chinese officials and written letters seeking employment overseas, perhaps using the tapes to better his chances.
The published numbers apply only to the banks' Chinese subsidiaries, and don't include items such as gains on investments in Chinese lenders or underwriting fees for overseas offerings by Chinese companies.
India has so far largely avoided attracting the sort of criticism levelled against Chinese and earlier Japanese overseas investments.
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This is especially true of the overseas Chinese (including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan), who handle some 70% of foreign direct investment into China.
Suchen had continued watching from afar while couples their age began to have children, and when Lei had joined the other overseas Chinese returning to the mother country to make their fortunes she had not accompanied him on his trips.
To Westerners who see China's math students regularly ranking near the top in international comparisons and Chinese mathematicians populating the math faculties at the finest overseas universities, Yau's crusade seems like overkill.
The CSCSE is jointly approved by the Chinese Ministry of Education and the Academic Degrees Committee of the State Council in 2000 to provide foreign credential assessment service to both Chinese and foreign students holding degree certificates and diplomas awarded by overseas institutions of higher education.
Officials at the defence ministry's publicity department writing in the People's Daily Overseas Edition dismiss claims by US companies and media about a Chinese hacker threat as "laughable" and "unprofessional absurd speculation".
Mainland regulation, supposed to prevent money going offshore, bars insurers from investing in overseas equities, from putting more than 15% into Chinese equities and from investing in corporate bonds with low investment grades.
Making overseas acquisitions is difficult for even the most experienced companies, and Chinese companies are new at the game.
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