• This should be enough to attract good young European players to sign on, and could even persuade some to stay on in a multi-ethnic city with a growing middle class whose lingua franca is English.

    ECONOMIST: The Malaysian Philharmonic

  • But Mr Giuliani, the first Republican to win a second term since Fiorello La Guardia in 1937, has also proved a surprisingly subtle ethnic politician co-opting or bullying most of the pieces of New York's ethnic mosaic into a more supportive shape.

    ECONOMIST: Rudy Tuesday

  • Well over a hundred ethnic groups have been a part of your story.

    WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Speaks at the University of Yangon

  • This could easily apply to a national group, an ethnic group, a nationality, but it all depends on how whoever defines it to mean.

    NPR: Words Matter: Terms of Global Conflict Debated

  • Many Estonians claim that, whenever they soften one aspect of a law meant to make ethnic Russians prove a knowledge of Estonian if they want citizenship, Mr Van der Stoel comes up with another objection.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • The group is made up of fighters who deserted from the Congolese army following a mutiny and are mostly from the Tutsi ethnic group, a minority in eastern DR Congo.

    BBC: UN combat force to target DR Congo rebels

  • Afghanistan for centuries has been governed loosely through a social covenant between all the ethnic groups, under a sovereign king.

    WSJ: Pervez Musharraf: The Afghan-Pakistan Solution

  • Kamgar, a 50-year-old ethnic Tajik, is a stocky man and an animated talker who sometimes flicks back a lock of hair.

    FORBES: Lord of the Skies

  • Americans in general still have trouble thinking of a gypsy as a member of an ethnic group, rather than a stock character in a film set in Transylvania.

    ECONOMIST: Gypsies in America

  • Rumi, who lived in 13th century, was "somebody who, during a time of ethnic tensions, was able to hit a very high note of love and tolerance and acceptance that we want to hold up as relevant today, " he added.

    CNN: SHARE THIS

  • They included a failure to meet the needs of black and ethnic minority groups, a high turnover of project management and a lack of adequate skills to improve health and education.

    BBC: RELATED BBC SITES

  • Mr Crompton was asked today if "ethnic origin was a factor" in the Crown Prosecution Service charging suspects.

    BBC: David Crompton

  • You can book an ethnic tour to a village in the Carpathian Mountains to see the rituals in action.

    BBC: Pagan holidays in modern Ukraine

  • Ethnic Romanians and a handful of Hungarians make up most of the rest.

    ECONOMIST: A Transylvanian tragedy

  • He is urging the government of Macedonia to let its large community of ethnic Albanians have a university of their own.

    ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

  • Milosevic denied that his troops have carried out a campaign of "ethnic cleansing" in Kosovo, a province of Serbia, Yugoslavia's dominant republic.

    CNN: Milosevic home a legitimate target, British say

  • Edinburgh is a big city with a wide mix of ethnic backgrounds which social work has a great deal of experience working with.

    BBC: Edinburgh to house asylum seekers

  • In Gansu and Qinghai Provinces and throughout north-central China, people of nine different ethnic groups share a music tradition known as Hua er.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • One of the tenets of No Child Left Behind is that it requires states to report test results for individual racial and ethnic groups, a process called disaggregation.

    NPR: Mixed Report Card for U.S. Schools

  • This is the beginning of the farmers dance of China s Korean ethnic group, a popular folk practice passed on by senior members of a community to younger generations.

    UNESCO: Culture

  • The ship's 27 dining options also include ethnic restaurants like a Brazilian churrascaria and Shanghai's Noodle Bar, along with the Manhattan Room, styled like a private supper club with dance floor.

    WSJ: Rockettes to christen Norwegian Breakaway ship

  • "I want to make sure that speed is the key factor in trying to get children adopted and we should not let issues like trying to find the perfect ethnic match be a factor, " he said.

    BBC: Adoption: David Cameron vows to cut adoption delays

  • Also on May 5, WHIAAPI will convene an AAPI Student Success Program at South Seattle Community College, followed by a TEACH Campaign Student Roundtable at the University of Washington Ethnic Cultural Center, a collaborative event between WHIAAPI, the Associated Students of Washington Pacific Islander Student Commission, and the U.S. Department of Education TEACH Campaign to encourage AAPI students to become teachers.

    WHITEHOUSE: WHIAAPI Weekly Highlights: AAPI Heritage Month Edition

  • Now if they went into it saying, as you suggest, that they were going to have a multi-ethnic society at least that would have been a political objective.

    BBC: 's Jeremy Bowen quizzed in Macedonia

  • The gun battle with Macedonian troops is the latest in a series of reported clashes with ethnic Albanian militants belonging to a group called the Army for National Liberation.

    CNN: Fighting on Macedonia-Kosovo border

  • It is a defining moment on whether a kinship-based society, dominated by tribal, religious and ethnic loyalty has reached a level of critical mass sufficient for national unity.

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  • During the mid-19th century, Maryland was a major immigration center, and its ethnic diversity (Maryland has a higher percentage of black residents -- 25 percent -- than any state outside the South) still sets it apart from many Southern regions.

    CNN: MARYLAND

  • He said the polls were a chance for Kenyans to come together to show they were not just members of tribes or ethnic groups, but a proud nation.

    BBC: Obama urges Kenya to avoid violence as election looms

  • Under the Public Administration Law passed in Romania last year, if a national or ethnic minority makes up over 20% of the population of a given settlement, they have the right to street signs, schools, and official proceedings in their own language.

    BBC: Hungarians unwanted in Romania census

  • More than 100 people have been killed in Sudan this week in a wave of riots and ethnic clashes sparked by the death in a helicopter crash of John Garang.

    NPR: Violence in Sudan Subsiding as Government Urges Calm

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