Second, the overseas Vietnamese are both a smaller and a more westernised bunch than the overseas Chinese.
And some printed and digitized culture is spread regionally through cross-border communities such as overseas Chinese, Indians and Filipinos.
Like Huang, they were culturally ambidextrous and therefore good candidates to represent the new financial powers of Asia, the overseas Chinese.
China's growing might is reinforced by its links with the overseas Chinese.
Indian officials speak admiringly of investments in China by the overseas Chinese.
That some overseas Chinese have been phenomenally successful is not in doubt.
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The two most important groups are the overseas Chinese and the Indians.
The overseas Chinese also spearhead China's global expansion: Africa, for example, is dotted with Chinese malls that sell the latest gadgets from Guangdong.
But China shares one important advantage with India: the army of overseas Chinese who have made their home in America, particularly Silicon Valley.
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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.
But though the typical overseas Chinese conglomerate, ruled by a lone patriarch, might do well in businesses, such as property or shipping, where good contacts and rapid decision-making are crucial, these fief-firms have their limitations.
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It also broadcasts to overseas Chinese communities.
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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.
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.
The purchase by Gold Mantis is part of an increase in overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies.
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Haier is now producing in South Carolina as well, but things haven't always gone well at the overseas facilities of Chinese producers.
For this reason, the initial wave of overseas acquisitions by Chinese companies has been largely confined to asset intensive energy and natural resource companies.
The World Luxury Association, when it reported the Mainland spending plunge during the lunar new year period, stated that purchases by Chinese overseas rose 18%.
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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.
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.
They have huge economic growth but it hasn't resulted in patent filings overseas, for example, for many famous Chinese brands in overseas markets.
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Rough competition and weaker overseas markets have hit Chinese solar entrepreneurs hard in the several years.
In 1993, when I took a trip to Italy, people mistook me for Japanese, as there were very few Chinese traveling overseas then.
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.
To an African government official trying to complete a paved road to an airport or a struggling farmer in need for a loan to expand his overseas coffee sales, Chinese assistance is probably a godsend.
He Jingjun, associate professor at Southwest University of Political Science and Law in Chongqing and commentator for The Beijing News, welcomes the execution decision as a "milestone in the protection of Chinese citizens overseas".
The appetite of Chinese companies for overseas acquisitions is quickly moving well beyond natural resources.
Zhang says he is conscious of avoiding the missteps of other Chinese companies operating overseas.
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With more than 10 million Chinese citizens educated overseas in the past 10 years, his task seems huge.
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