The government has so far attracted 170 applicants, believed to be mostlyfromChina, to a new program to develop foreign investment by offering overseas millionaires the right of residency in return for a portion of their wealth.
On July 5th Kyodo, a news agency, reported that 21 Chinese were among 27 foreign trainees who died last year on a government-sponsored skills-transfer scheme for developing countries that over the past four years has brought in an average of 94, 000 workers a year, mostlyfromChina.