The husband of the second Chinese couple was deaf in one ear, so his wife had to retell the joke loudly and in Chinese, and then he laughed, too.

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My kids and wife were with me but ate Chinese food and Subway sandwiches.

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Neo's character, an unpolished Chinese-educated executive, speaks Mandarin with his wife, inadequate English in the office and Hokkien with his coffee-shop buddies.

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He recently became a father when his wife, Ye Li, a former Chinese national team volleyball player gave birth to a baby girl in May 2010.

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His wife, Millie Chu-Baird, is Chinese-American but can't read or write Mandarin, having grown up in Columbus, Ind.

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But just to make sure that the message gets through to Chinese tourists and investors, the husband-and-wife team behind Jeju Weekly, Dr. Kim Gyong Ho and Song Jong Hee, plan to start a Chinese publication in 2011 which will be available in both print and on the web.

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Jim Cashel and his wife, Anne Ching, a fourth-generation Chinese-American who never learned Mandarin growing up, moved from Sonoma, Calif.

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Chinese worker Lu Shaoqing, who is helping to build sports stadiums in Angola, says he left his wife and seven-year-old daughter in Beijing for a number of reasons.

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