Bankard president Chua sees his company's smart product as helping low-income consumers buy on installment.
The hostess tries to patch things up by suggesting that Chua is speaking figuratively.
Chua escaped injury, but his bodyguard and the 5-year-old son of his Singapore friend were killed.
Chua is also No. 71 on the Forbes Most Powerful Women 2011 list.
There also seems to be some truth in the "Tiger Mom" syndrome described by author Amy Chua.
On our bad days, we wonder whether this way of thinking is, as Chua might say, garbage.
Mr Chua was held over the deaths of Tracey Arden, 44, Arnold Lancaster, 71, and Derek Weaver, 83.
That same day, the ABB carried out similar ambushes against two other Filipino-Chinese businessmen, Benjamin Yu and Ramon Chua.
Chua clearly wants to end her book by claiming that she has changed.
Chua says she and her team focused on the region, which helped offset the storm spreading from the West.
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By 1977 Chua and her husband had separated, and she found herself a single mother raising two young sons.
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The upshot of the crisis is that Lulu is allowed to take up tennis, which Chua then proceeds to micromanage.
Chua wrote that she would never allow her daughters to watch TV, play computer games or be in a school play.
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In the light of such misgivings Ms Chua's rant was bound to raise hackles in America and other centres of permissive parenthood.
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Chua refers to herself as a Tiger because according to the Chinese zodiac she was born in the Year of the Tiger.
Amy Chua is a Tiger Mother, a greatly gifted law professor and, ultimately, an honest, loving woman with a lot to say.
So how did founder, Cynthia Chua, make Brazilians so necessary in Asia?
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Chua relates this at a dinner party, and one of the guests supposedly gets so upset that she breaks down in tears.
Chua, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, is a Yale Law School professor.
As the Sarawak death toll rose last week, Health Minister Chua urged parents to limit the number of people cuddling their children.
Chua Sock Koong (No. 71) is chief of Singapore Telecommunications, and Sun Yafang (No. 90) is chair of Huawei Technologies in China.
National University of Singapore industrial design students Gabriel Tan and Wendy Chua's prototype uses negative ions, compressed air and anti-bacterial deodorants to clean clothes.
Victorino Chua, 46, was arrested on suspicion of murdering three patients and causing grievous bodily harm with intent to 18 others at the hospital.
In 2003 Chua was named CEO of Raffles Holdings, which was 60% owned by CapitaLand (whose own majority investor is state-owned investment company Temasek).
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The Amy Chua method of development is dangerous for this reason.
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The 1930s former military buildings are also a hub for young local artists to come together and share ideas, art and film enthusiast Julian Chua said.
Chua told CNN that she and Tan had taken technology and processes commonly used in air conditioning and air purifying units and adapted it for an alternative use.
This problem was solved by Dr Chua's collaborator, Tamas Roska, and his group at the Computer and Automation Research Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest.
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