How many short, overweight, non-English-speaking Chinese boyhood friends of Jackie Chan have ever become stars on U.S. television?
Many passengers are Korean-speaking Chinese, who have gone to South Korea to work in factories or on construction projects.
Jim Rogers, 69, and his wife, Paige Parker, 43, sold their New York City home and moved to Singapore in 2007, specifically so their children could grow up speaking Chinese.
Currently, Internet access is most attractive to young, educated, English-speaking Chinese who can use the Net as a window to the world and a means to communicate with friends and ex-classmates living abroad.
Participating hotels will be hiring more Chinese-speaking front desk staff and adding Chinese language TV channels.
High-end stores such as Tiffany, a world-renowned jeweller, and luxury watch retailer Tourneau are catering to Chinese tourists with Mandarin-speaking sales staff, Chinese size charts and visits by sales reps to China to update tour operators on their US retail offerings.
How much longer till our Spanish, French or Chinese speaking pals can get in on the action?
Last year, viewers panned Salesgenie's ads, one of which featured a panda couple running a store and speaking in stereotypical Chinese accents.
U.S. investors burned by alleged Chinese accounting fraud, such as at Longtop Financial, know that financial statements by even listed companies (especially for gullible, non-Chinese speaking foreigners) can be way off.
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The Chinese-speaking Vladislavovich says he often gets together on the border for informal parties with Chinese counterparts who repeatedly assure him of their peaceful intentions.
At the same time, Mayor Bell was speaking to 150 potential Chinese investors.
One example includes the consent decree that the Division has obtained to protect Chinese-speaking voters in Alameda County, California.
This time they realized that it was important to have a Chinese-speaking team in place that could better navigate its way around the local market.
For example, one store found that a lot of shoppers after 4 pm were Asian, so it placed Chinese-speaking staff by the entrance at that time.
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Starwood and Hilton recently launched new efforts to appeal to Chinese guests by expanding breakfast menus to include items like fried bread and congee, and hiring more Chinese-speaking staff.
At Search Bank, a Beijing employment agency, Hai Yuen points out that, whereas the value of compensation packages for expat executives has been shrinking over the past ten years, the number of Chinese-speaking foreigners she handles has been rising.
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At times like this, when the commentary seems so disconnected from my own experience, I like to do a reality check by speaking with as many Chinese business leaders as I can people that have a real stake in the economy, not economists, government officials or foreign commentators.
Stores in shopping districts like Myeongdong have added Chinese-speaking staff, their headquarters are using Korean celebrities popular across China and Southeast Asia in advertisements, and glitzy duty-free stores are dropping European luxury brands to give more space to Korean cosmetics chains that are less expensive but more popular in the Asian region.
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Employing first Chinese graduates of these colleges as liaison staff (and later Mandarin-speaking African college graduates), multinationals should sponsor Chinese faculty research in key areas like petroleum engineering, manufacturing operations and international commerce, and seek out talented students from Angola, Zambia, Congo and Sudan.
Chinese consumers, relatively speaking, like Hollywood movies.
Another Chinese military expert, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that China's basic position on North Korea hadn't changed, and that the only way to curb its nuclear ambitions was for the U.S. to take a more conciliatory position toward Pyongyang.
Mr. Chen said he has been speaking with an official from the Chinese government about a probe into his treatment by local authorities, who he targeted as part of his work fighting against forced abortions and sterilizations under the auspices of China's one-child policy.
The French hotel group Accor began adding Chinese television and Mandarin-speaking staff.
So, again, I don't have a specific, itemized list of the topics that were discussed in the Oval Office, but I can assure that, broadly speaking, we speak very candidly with the Chinese.
That is something of a problem if you are running a large Chinese-owned business in Mandarin-speaking Taiwan.
Neither pizza nor chinese is delivered cold, and logistically speaking, pizza is larger and requires more effort to keep the heat retained.
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Speaking of distorted, one glance at the lyrics of Chinese Democracy's title track leaves one wondering whether there's been too much MSG or even mercury in Rose's reportedly all-sushi diet.
He was speaking at a conference in Singapore, attended by a high-level Chinese military delegation.
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