For example, its early management team was composed mostly of foreigners who have no experience in China.
There are two sides to Thailand, and while foreigners mostly see only the smiling face of the country, Thais know too well about the other side.
Foreigners, mostly Chinese, Indonesian, Malaysian and Indian, made up 36% of all new-home sales so far this year.
Twenty years ago, foreigners, mostly low-paid workers from the Indian subcontinent, made up less than half the population.
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Manufacturing, computer services and some financial services, such as asset management and stockbroking, are among the many industries open (or mostly open) to foreigners.
France, which keeps a permanent garrison in the country, was evacuating foreigners, including 170 mostly American children trapped in a mission school.
Its debt is owed mostly to its own citizens rather than to foreigners, so it has been saved from the kind of confidence run that has bedevilled Greece and Spain.
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Foreigners' dislike of America has mostly to do with its politics and politicians (nearly 75% of the French and Germans who disapprove of America base their dislike on Mr Bush personally).
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The FinMark Trust, which helps arrange financial services for poor people, reckons that up to 15% of small, mostly unlicensed businesses in Gauteng province are run by foreigners.
Mr Gbagbo's army, in keeping with an old Ivorian tradition of getting foreigners to do their dirty work, recruited other Liberians, mostly refugees, to help fight the first group.
There are some restrictions on foreigners buying property in Egypt, and many internationals moving to Cairo rent furnished or mostly furnished apartments.
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