The government favours such businesses, including those owned by ethnic minority people and military veterans, or those based in special economic regions.
Cardiff is the only local authority area where more than 10% of the population were born outside the UK. It also has the highest proportion of ethnic minority people at 20%.
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees says it is "concerned" about the fate of the Muslim ethnic minority Rohingya people, who have fled from Myanmar's border with Bangladesh.
The new, non-statutory, body is provisionally called the police, crime and response development forum and would be made up of representatives from business organisations, charities, ethnic minority and young people's groups and other "watch" groups such as Pubwatch.
Other questions were on access to and use of disability services by black and minority ethnic disabled people, careers advice in schools, and proposed action to take in the light of the house building data for the quarter to March 2012.
The main activities being taken forward as part of the 2009 programme include a range of new partnerships with three specific groups who are thought to be under-represented in parliamentary engagement: disabled people, people from ethnic minority backgrounds and hard-to-reach young people.
Fewer people from ethnic minority backgrounds come forward to adopt.
People from black and minority ethnic (BME) communities in Gloucestershire are being urged to consider fostering and adopting.
BBC: Gloucestershire seeks more BME foster carers and adopters
To contribute effectively to social inclusion, including help to ensure the long-term survival of rural communities, and improving the housing opportunities for people from black and minority ethnic communities.
Since the 1970s, when people started counting, four out of five ethnic minority voters have consistently voted Labour.
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The emergence of the Roma as another aggrieved ethnic minority on an American landscape already teeming with them may disappoint people who cherish that image of the barefoot, carefree, violin-playing gypsy.
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