How much longer till our Spanish, French or Chinese speaking pals can get in on the action?
Participating hotels will be hiring more Chinese-speaking front desk staff and adding Chinese language TV channels.
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.
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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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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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.
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.
Chinese consumers, relatively speaking, like Hollywood movies.
The French hotel group Accor began adding Chinese television and Mandarin-speaking staff.
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.
At the same time, Mayor Bell was speaking to 150 potential Chinese investors.
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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"Most of the people at the recycling center didn't want to be filmed, because they think it's a shameful job, " said a Chinese woman named Lilly, one of the film's subjects, speaking Cantonese through a translator while collecting a fresh haul last week near Fulton Street.
He was speaking at a conference in Singapore, attended by a high-level Chinese military delegation.
The Chinese PMI tends to lead the Euro-area on by three months, statistically speaking.
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Generally speaking, what do you think will be some of the main opportunities for large Chinese real estate developers like Agile in the next five years?
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Chinese-American actress Ming-na Wen, who appeared in The Joy Luck Club, has the speaking role.
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