There are few American firms in which foreigners, let alone Brits, hold so many top jobs.
They have matchless brand-names and country-wide sales networks, which foreigners will not find easy to replicate.
In any case, the name by which foreigners know Hong Kong movies usually bears no relation to the domestic one.
In February, President Thabo Mbeki announced that the conditions under which foreigners buy land would be regulated in line with international practices.
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Trade Secretary Gregory L. Domingo said this week that the government is preparing legislation that would cut the length of the negative investment list of industries from which foreigners are barred.
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There's 4, 591 inmates in this prison, 250 of which are foreigners.
Such first-hand accounts can do more than any number of speeches and statistics to illuminate a bafflingly complex conflict about which most foreigners would rather forget.
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Paul Smith of TripleA Partners, which advises foreigners on investing in Asian funds, says there is twice as much money looking for long-only funds as for hedge funds.
This makes them consistent with other measures to relax restrictions on the capital account such as the expansion of the Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor scheme, which allows foreigners to bring portfolio investment capital into China but only in a carefully regulated manner.
Or to Japan, which counts no foreigners at all among its nine Nobel laureates.
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There's a blue U.N. guard box outside my house which indicates that foreigners are living in this place.
But let's go back to that law passed at 1996 which calls for foreigners convicted of violent felonies to be deported.
With those words David Cameron heralded his arrival in Algeria - the first Western leader to visit this country since the hostage crisis which left 38 foreigners dead and the first British prime minister to visit in half a century of Algerian independence.
Opponents of this policy argue that it imposes on foreigners restrictions which are unconstitutional in America.
Dumping by foreigners, which might have killed the domestic industry, thus enabled it to thrive.
Indonesia's central bank, for example, has stopped selling three-month notes, which yield-hungry foreigners were eagerly snapping up.
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Yet there is a perennial duality in English attitudes to foreigners, which can be suspicious and patronising, but also, sometimes, reverential and entranced.
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Below them stands a second tier of half-a-dozen middle-sized banks, some of which are being stalked by foreigners.
There is already a hugely effective policy in place that will help support British firms and British workers: the collapse in the value of the pound, which makes it harder for foreigners to find buyers here and easier for British exporters to expand.
It makes the crops local farmers grow almost worthless, which makes them stop growing food and drives them to move to places where foreigners pass out free food, which lays waste to those areas which must produce food after that alphabet soup of aid agencies have moved on to the next crisis.
Greece, which is heavily in debt to foreigners, has a high cost of borrowing (see chart 2).
But this legacy, which is championed primarily by earnest foreigners and white South Africans, is not the only one.
Germany: 1.4 (its total population is 81.9 million, of which 8.2% are foreigners).
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But the tax has had unintended consequences: the treasury is now struggling to find buyers for long-term bonds, which tend to be popular with foreigners.
Spain: 1.4 (46.1 million, of which 12.4% are foreigners).
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Belgium: 1.8 (10.8 million, of which 9.8% are foreigners).
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This would be similar to the EB-5 program, which gives green cards to rich foreigners who invest in the U.S. This would allow non-rich immigrants to make an investment in the region sponsoring their visa.
The challenge to Mr Tusk comes from PiS, which blends patriotic conservatism and prickliness to foreigners with socially minded Catholicism.
Just before the budget in February, the government published its annual Economic Survey, which proposed a gradual opening, letting foreigners start by setting up multi-brand stores in big cities.
The government worries that foreign buying is introducing the risk of a market bubble and making homes less affordable for Singaporeans, which is feeding a growing resentment of foreigners.
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