Mr Umunna said Labour had taken action to "enshrine fairness" with the equality act and set up the Ethnic Minority Business Task Force to look at barriers to setting up businesses, including getting access to finance.
The ethnic-Chinese business networks across East Asia were a crucial source of capital during the economic boom.
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Hashim also stood out as a pribumi, an indigenous Indonesian, in contrast to the ethnic-Chinese business class that thrived under Suharto.
Wanting politicians to curb corruption and ethnic favoritism in business and education, they have demonstrated that they can force change by using social media and taking to the streets peacefully.
In Malaysia, this problem is exacerbated by a national policy of positive discrimination in favour of the majority bumiputra (largely Malay) population and against the ethnic Chinese who dominate business.
The families who run South Korea's industrial conglomerates, or chaebol, are not ethnic Chinese, and their business empires are different from those of South-East Asia.
Its rotten economy, broken legal system, Islamist insurgency, and street warfare among ethnic gangs in its main business centre, Karachi, are topped off by politicians widely derided as clowns.
Ironically, if President Bush is perceived to be pandering to ethnic constituencies, big-business interests, and single-minded tax-cut advocates at the expense of his commitment to rebuild the U.S. military and restore American power, he runs a serious risk not only of undermining national security.
Ethnic-Chinese Indonesians dominated big business, but even the display of Chinese characters was forbidden.
So what if a few ethnic take-aways go out of business, some may retort.
Airline food has improved remarkably in recent years with some airlines going as far to hire celebrity chefs to create ethnic or fusion cuisine to serve their business and first class passengers.
The new, non-statutory, body is provisionally called the police, crime and response development forum and would be made up of representatives from business organisations, charities, ethnic minority and young people's groups and other "watch" groups such as Pubwatch.
Political stability may also lure business people and investment, including ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs.
The approach can also be applied to interpreting styles of business and political leadership, understanding ethnic diversity within the same group and so on.
Prior to EMW, John was the founder and executive director of the Independent Press Association, a membership organization that provided technical assistance and business services to hundreds of independent and ethnic periodicals.
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Then they would map the world by transnational issues, as one would with trans-state or trans-regional issues at home: ethnic, racial, linguistic, cultural, religious, business, labor, women, family, generational, environmental, and so forth.
In South-East Asia, for instance, most business is still controlled by a small number of ethnic-Chinese tycoons, who cultivate close ties to local governments and to each other.
The business minister Andrew Stunell is to bring together finance and start-up business experts to look at the barriers preventing black and ethnic minority groups from accessing loans.
And the traditional tide may be turning, as business schools seek to encourage not only more women and ethnic minorities to do an MBA, but also those with more diverse backgrounds including media, military, not-for-profits and entrepreneurship.
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At the same time, and despite his calls for a harmonious "One Malaysia, " the prime minister has placated his party's ethnic Malay base by protecting pro-Malay affirmative action in government, business and education.
Germany may not be known for its sophisticated cuisine but passengers in business class on long-haul Lufthansa flights are treated to gourmet ethnic and fusion cuisine.
Throughout the U.S., ethnic-based businesses continue to expand, even as mainstream centers suffer or go out of business.
After four months of research and interviews with more than 70 Latino immigrants, 30 local religious leaders, human rights activists, community organizers and small business owners, the center said in a report last month that a pattern of ethnic intolerance was clear.
In the process, the leaders in these councils, who hail from Syria's different religious and ethnic groups, are developing political skills, cultivating local constituencies and learning through trial and error the business of governing.
Credit scores, they complained, are just being used as a proxy for ethnic background--and will be used to justify charging higher prices to minority customers or refusing their business altogether.
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