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Some 68% of the foreign direct investment (FDI) that China received in 2009 came from places where ethnic Chinese are the biggest group, with Hong Kong the number one source, Singapore number four and Taiwan number nine.
ECONOMIST: Schumpeter
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They are more likely than other Asians to be employed (though they earn slightly less than Indians) and Sri Lankan children do better at school than any ethnic group bar the Chinese.
ECONOMIST: Tamil Tigers in Britain
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The Han Chinese are the country's dominant ethnic group, and the Uyghurs are a Turkic-speaking Muslim minority who consider Xinjiang their homeland.
CNN: Chinese doctors say some claims of needle-stabbings are mistaken
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The Chinese in California are now arguably its most successful ethnic group, says Mr Fong.
ECONOMIST: An official apology for the past marks a story of success
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But the Chinese, the country's second-largest ethnic group, are also players.
CNN: THE CHINESE CONNECTION
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Many of the biggest conglomerates are controlled by ethnic-Chinese businessmen, such as Liem Sioe Liong of the Salim Group and Bob Hasan, a timber tycoon.
ECONOMIST: The Robin Hood of Java
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Black Caribbean pupils had the highest permanent exclusion rate by ethnic group, at 41 in every 10, 000, compared with two in 10, 000 Chinese pupils.
BBC: Expulsions rise for second year