Asian Americans range from fifth-generation Chinese and Japanese Americans to Southeast Asian refugees and burgeoning populations of Filipinos, Koreans and Indo-Americans.
The renowned showman spared no expense with his darling, filling it with Asian flourishes and Chinese-crafted artefacts.
Demand from South-East Asian countries for Chinese goods has slumped, and the collapse of their currencies has hit exports to other markets too, since China has refused to devalue its yuan to compete.
EDT, the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee is expected to hear from witnesses who will testify on Trie's alleged laundering of campaign donations and on how he got his business partner -- a wealthy Asian businessman who is a part-time official of the Chinese government -- into a Democratic fund-raiser with the president last year.
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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Nicholas Lardy of the Brookings Institution notes another reason for the outflows: a huge increase in trade credit extended to foreign (mainly South-East Asian) buyers of Chinese goods.
During the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 the Chinese held the yuan steady as currencies all about them crumbled.
It grouped five South-East Asian countries (and two Chinese provinces) with the aim of building a transport and energy infrastructure shared by all.
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Its Spanish-American colonial experience, invigorated by Malay, Chinese and indigenous influences, has produced an Asian variant of the rum-and-Coca-Cola culture.
U.S. investors are jumping back into Asian bonds, even buying debt from high-yield Chinese real-estate developers they shunned last year because of worries the companies could default.
In the early 1990s Chinese investors poured money into California property, and East West benefited in part by helping non-Chinese customers willing to sell to Asian buyers.
The increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese, Indians and Indonesians are helping fuel the shift to low-tax Asian centers, according to the report, with Hong Kong in a strong position to benefit from the Chinese government's moves to free-up international trade in China's yuan and the growing number of Chinese millionaires looking for a safe place to invest their money.
The Korean, South Asian and Chinese communities are a backbone of the small-business community.
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Hong Kong's TVBI -- the international arm of Television Broadcasts (TVB) -- already reaches into several Asian markets and beyond, to Chinese communities just about everywhere.
As Senate hearings open this week, Washington's campaign-finance scandal has come down to this: Republican Fred Thompson wants to know if Huang, the architect of Asian fund raising and the must-see Democrat for ethnic-Chinese moguls like the CP trio, was helping funnel foreign money into Democratic coffers and sending back U.S. government secrets in return.
Condemnations from those countries of Chinese swimmers reached campaign-like proportions following the Asian Games in Hiroshima in October 1994.
Chung, who runs a broadcast fax business in Torrance, California, is the first Asian-American fund-raiser to publicly testify about his dealings with elite Chinese business and political figures.
GigaMedia in May struck a deal with Pacific Century CyberWorks (PCCW), would-be Great Ape of Asian interactive networks, to work together on Chinese content development in a joint venture with ERA Communication of Taiwan.
U.S. and Asian experts suspect North Korea is already doing just that, using a Chinese-designed rocket to build an intercontinental version of the Taepo Dong-1.
When she made similar remarks in July the Chinese response was sufficiently furious to unnerve China's South-East Asian neighbours.
Fresh competition from Russia and Chinese eager to sell cheaper fighter jets to Asian customers could result in sooner-than-expected exports of the F-22 Raptor.
The latest target demographic is Asian-Americans, with MTV Desi (for Indian-Americans), MTV Chi (for Chinese-Americans) and MTV K (for Korean Americans) all appearing during the past year.
Reasons: bad Asian news, particularly a weak yen (bringing worries about the Chinese yuan), lower-than-expected corporate results, and the fear that blue-chip shares were overvalued.
Texas has experienced phenomenal growth over the last decade, with the AAPI population growing to more than 575, 000 or by 72.4%, which included growth not only among Asian Indians, Vietnamese, Chinese, Filipinos, and Koreans, but also among more recently-arrived immigrant communities like the Bhutanese.
Smaller countries such as Burma, Cambodia, Nepal, and others lack the democratic institutions that facilitate peace and prosperity, while the majority of the larger Central Asian states remain under authoritarian governments that are strengthened by their membership in the Russian and Chinese-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
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How, asked Asian regulators, can a New York-based registry validate the names of banks that are in Japanese or Chinese?
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For the ethnic subgroups, the survey classified Asians as Chinese, Filipino, or other Asian, and Hispanics as Puerto Rican, Mexican, Mexican-American, Central or South American, or other Hispanic.
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The Asian touches evoke the heritage of company founder and chief executive Eugene Sit, a 59-year-old Chinese immigrant who jokes that he would have been a wealthy Guangzhou landowner today if the Communists hadn't imprisoned his mother and confiscated his grandparents' vast holdings in 1949.
Las Vegas-based casino companies have been scrambling for years to cash in on the influx of Asian tourists into the Chinese gambling enclave of Macau.
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