In Thailand, Tesco teamed up with CP Group, an agri-business conglomerate, before going it alone.

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His family has their roots in China, where his CP Group accounts for more than one-quarter of China's poultry exports.

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His CP Group is partnering with farmers to create an agribusiness--see the scale of the silos in the picture above--appropriate to a modern China.

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Some of them--the Riadys of Indonesia and the Chearavanonts, who control the CP Group--have begun to repatriate their fortunes to the world's fastest growing economy, China.

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Mr. Dhanin's CP Group is planning to expand Siam Makro throughout Southeast Asia, and even into Pakistan and China, said Korsak Chairasmisak, chief executive of CP ALL at a briefing Tuesday.

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It is for this reason that, while the Greek CP wants out of the euro, the growingly influential far left parliamentary group SYRIZA does not, and neither does the hard-right religious party LAOS. Everybody can see that an external devaluation will be chaotic, painful and cause its own kind of social unrest, just as the attempted internal devaluation is doing.

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