The two most important groups are the overseas Chinese and the Indians.
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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Modern Mormons have something in common with other industrious minorities, such as Parsees, who are prominent in corporate India, the overseas Chinese and Jews.
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.
Second, the overseas Vietnamese are both a smaller and a more westernised bunch than the overseas Chinese.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 23-year-old says the volatility of the Chinese government and, consequently, its economy, pushed him to invest in real estate overseas.
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.
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.
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.
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.
India has so far largely avoided attracting the sort of criticism levelled against Chinese and earlier Japanese overseas investments.
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Rough competition and weaker overseas markets have hit Chinese solar entrepreneurs hard in the several years.
Making overseas acquisitions is difficult for even the most experienced companies, and Chinese companies are new at the game.
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.
Much of the gap is attributable to the activities of overseas Chinese in Taiwan, Hong Kong, South-East Asia and America.
For this reason, the initial wave of overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies has been largely confined to asset intensive energy and natural resource companies.
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".
Like Huang, they were culturally ambidextrous and therefore good candidates to represent the new financial powers of Asia, the overseas Chinese.
Chinese mobile internet companies are still in the initial stages of entering overseas markets and have yet to become global companies in the same league as Google or Baidu.
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