Social Entrepreneurship: University of Hawaii professor Kate Zhou's Education Advancement Fund International (www.yifei.org), for a loan program for ethnic minority Chinese women in Xiangxi, in Hunan Province.

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Here is part of the reason why Yahoo is cheap and would be an enticing target: its cash hoard and minority stakes in Chinese conglomerate Alibaba Group and Yahoo!

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And the Chinese firm also bought a minority stake in Epic Games in June - the maker of the Unreal gaming engine used by titles including Mass Effect 3 and Lollipop Chainsaw.

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In 2009 Rio Tinto, an Anglo-Australian mining firm, withdrew from a deal to sell a series of minority stakes to Chinalco, a Chinese metals firm.

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While the majority of his fortune comes from Xiaomi, he also owns minority stakes in a number of Chinese online enterprises, including Hong Kong-listed anti-virus firm Kingsoft, private e-commerce companies Vancl and Lakala, mobile browser provider UC Web, and YY, which hit the Nasdaq exchange last Wednesday.

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