Some local ethnic Chinese just cannot understand why they are automatically the easiest object of attack.
The ruling UMNO-led coalition kept its two-thirds majority thanks largely to the ethnic Chinese vote.
Maintaining quotas for Malays in some universities, for instance, drives the brightest ethnic Chinese abroad.
Ultimately, however, Ng's competitive edge lies in his ties to the ethnic Chinese community.
One examines the competition to bank the quarter of the world's population who are ethnic Chinese.
That makes it a symbol of the first family's links with ethnic Chinese tycoons.
But in Singapore this style of parenting, especially among the ethnic Chinese majority, is rarely questioned.
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Groups representing ethnic Chinese, women, workers, environmentalists and various schools of Islam intend to form parties.
Despite the presence of small ethnic Chinese communities in many islands, the Caribbean continues to look north.
Indonesia's military leader at the time, Suharto, saw the country's ethnic Chinese minority as a potential fifth column.
Headed to Palau are the Uighurs, ethnic Chinese Muslims who were picked up in 2002 near Tora Bora.
China's one-child policy would not count because it applies to ethnic Chinese unless it were brutally enforced on, say, Tibetans.
This will hardly reassure the many ethnic Chinese who fear they will never be fully accepted in Indonesia.
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Many of the region's smartest ethnic Chinese apparel and luxury sellers are aligning with Western brands, not Chinese ones.
Political stability may also lure business people and investment, including ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs.
Those ethnic Chinese who could flee, did so to hotels or the airport.
"The Salims are affected by the crisis, " says Singapore-based political scientist Leo Suryadinata, who studies ethnic Chinese businesses in Indonesia.
He is still not trusted by some middle-class Malaysians, especially the ethnic Chinese, who are suspicious of his Islamist background.
Especially at risk from an outbreak of violence are Indonesia's 2.5 million or so ethnic Chinese, who dominate the merchant class.
Especially at risk from an outbreak of violence are the 2.5 million or so ethnic Chinese, who dominate the merchant class.
Unless the ethnic Chinese bring some of their money and commercial expertise back, it will be hard to attract foreign investors.
The ethnic Chinese who were targeted, and many of whom fled, are unlikely to return without adequate guarantees of their safety.
That might also help him recover support among the highly entrepreneurial ethnic Chinese minority, who have deserted the National Front in droves.
Malaysia's governing coalition won a key election in the Borneo state of Sarawak over the weekend, but it lost most of the ethnic Chinese vote.
Indonesia's ethnic Chinese have their own newspaper, and Chinese firms compete with U.S. and European companies for Indonesia's vast reserves of oil, minerals and gas.
One of the handful of pribumi -- indigenous -- entrepreneurs in an economy dominated by ethnic Chinese, he owns leading Java cement maker Semen Cibinong.
The families who run South Korea's industrial conglomerates, or chaebol, are not ethnic Chinese, and their business empires are different from those of South-East Asia.
Both Kazakhstan and Kirgizstan are now nervously watching the flood of ethnic Chinese moving to Xinjiang, and the economic boom in that part of China.
The phone company's first ethnic Chinese chief executive is also confronted by intense competition as Hong Kong's telecommunications market liberalizes in line with the rest of Asia.
People tore down traffic lights, wrecked cash machines, turned over vehicles, set fire to shopping malls, threw stones through office windows, robbed the homes of ethnic Chinese.
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