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Now that foreigners can produce a popular movie out of the story Hua Mulan, why can't we Chinese present its own to the world?

A Chinese vice commerce minister, Fu Ziying, said the case, far from deterring foreigners, would improve the investment environment.

While talking with foreigners, if you can't understand them, and do not know how to express yourself, the talking will be very difficult.

He soon found he was more interested in teaching his own language to foreigners than foreign languages to English schoolboys .

The IIF said the biggest share of private capital flows is likely to come from portfolio equity investments by foreigners.

Up to 12 people are reported to have been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a minibus carrying foreigners near the Afghan capital, Kabul.

The security company does not employ Chinese; it employs only foreigners. Get out of here.

Living in a foreign country or being among foreigners can be difficult and sometimes putting on a disguise makes it just a little easier.

On the face of it, the measures seem surprising given that foreigners account for only a small part of property investment.

The new regime came in two weeks ago and is intended to end a scam in which thousands of foreigners enrolled at bogus colleges to work here.

Unless they are very strong, these accents are usually not as hard for foreigners to understand as the U. K. regional accents.

Selling to foreigners is particularly sensitive at the moment, as China gears up for the Communist Party Congress in the fall.

He has no right to sell her to foreigners, because he has broken faith with her.

It was the yellow skin Asians and dark Philippines, Indians, and Pakistanis that were easy to recognize to be foreigners at first glance.

The government still retains a "golden share" in the privatised group and was reluctant to see parts of it sold to foreigners.

The classification of "foreign devils" was general and tentative and was applied by individual Chinese only to foreigners he did not know.

The Chinese state-owned firms did not need capital so badly that they were prepared to cede control to foreigners.

By his own logic, an immigration system that allows in only highly employable foreigners would still not be strict enough.

The ministry said most managers still feared that foreigners would not be able to adapt to Japan's language or corporate culture.

POPULAR with foreigners looking for sun, sea and samba, Brazil wants to turn itself into a hot destination for seekers of science.

While Mr. Xu said the plan is still being formulated, he also said that foreigners have been too skeptical.

At the moment, land-grabbing foreigners seem to be creating islands for themselves, cut off from the poverty-stricken countryside.

as to the foreigners in china , it all right no matter how much they like to be in the limelight.

There was a time, back in the mid-20th century, when Guangzhou was the only place foreigners could do business.

But some foreigners might regard the RMB value of the item in dollars and consider it a good deal so they don't bargain.

There was some talk among the rustics that all foreigners had red hair and blue eyes and walked without bending their knees.

This is not just a Japanese problem: elderly American managers hardly queue up to support foreigners taking over their employers.

at a time when few true geisha were able to work the counterfeit geisha usurped the meaning of the word in the eyes of many foreigners.

I see. Silk Street used to be full of fakes and imitations. Foreigners love that place. Anyway, how much is that silk carpet?

However, foreigners should not stiffly insist on trying to understand China from their own eyes and their own background.

"Something must be eating you, " he said--proud the way foreigners are when they've mastered a bit of American slang.

A fundamental requirement for the Asian model was that foreigners were able to run the requisite trade deficits.

There are three officials keeping an eye on seven tourists and foreigners are not allowed to leave the hotel unescorted.

Nothing over the weekend, in the BBO registered the game, and a few foreigners playing bridge, one of whom was Israel's hand.

How much do you really know about Foreigners'Street?

It had also witnessed a surge in the number of foreigners buying properties. But how had this been affected by the credit crunch?

Even if the goods are all of a single brand, New Delhi is not ready to let foreigners sell groceries directly to its citizens.

He even spread the word about martial arts abroad, and enabled even more foreigners to understand Chinese martial arts, and to practise it.

This was the case especially in big cities such as Shanghai with a large number of foreigners and multi-national companies, she said.

Do you think it is all right for foreigners to stay over night on the Great Wall?

Those universities have been trying to attract more foreigners to take their place, he said.

The police said no foreigners had been found among the dead and injured so far.

Is not to let other people talk about foreigners: "Chinese people on such a quality point? "

There was a time when ambitious foreigners had little choice but to put up with America's restrictive ways.

A country that has been built on immigrant labour is now building fences and demonizing foreigners, almost as if it did not need them.

The British love of music is often unfamiliar to foreigners, probably because there are few renowned British composers.

Pro-Mubarak youths were interviewed and allowed to claim that the anti-Mubarak protesters were all foreigners and Jews.

A convenient timezone and a language which imperialism had spread around the globe made it easy for foreigners to operate in the city.

Higher-ranked citizens can enter the department stores for foreigners and senior officials, although foreign currency is often required.

For uninformed visitors, the sight and sound of foreigners belting it out in Chinese might seem bizarre.

Im going to show you a strange place where foreigners are more, may be you know it, its YANG SUO XI JIE.

You can tell a lot about a country by how much better they treat themselves than foreigners at the point of entry.

(Foreigners could not operate the latter. ) Google then began a year-and-a-half-long negotiation to restore the license.

In the best of worlds, it would be foreigners with ample reserves who suffer the losses, but they may be needed to finance future deficits.

Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong is, therefore, right: If you don't speak good English, foreigners would not be able to understand you.

But Zimbabwe's is probably the only one so far to declare, in effect, that whites or foreigners should not own more than half of a company.

He soon found he was more interested in teaching his own language to foreigners than in teaching foreign languages to English schoolboys.

Those of us that are here are seriously trying to promote harmony between locals and foreigners.

Foreigners are often mystified as to why such a minimalist event can require years of training.

The clerk sits in the dark, unheated special store, waiting to turn on the lights for foreigners, the only permitted customers.

Howqua's father was one of a handful of Chinese merchants permitted to trade silk and porcelain with foreigners.

Such a risk cannot be dismissed as foreigners could reach half of the total population.

There was a long line of cars, but the drivers had been instructed to take foreigners only: Chinese spectators had to wait for the bus.

Foreigners in Germany, there have been a small upsurge in house, most of the type of real estate investment business.

I jumped up into a "ding ding" car, No one on board, only a few foreigners in video scenes.

But for a handful of foreigners, they seem to turn a blind eye to the picture. They see only the trees, not the woods.

Should not be allowed to read the foreigners do not know what it means to have the best foreigners to participate.

This, together with its multiracial society, informal lifestyle and agreeable climate, attracts foreigners to its shores .

Imagine if the situation were reversed and the foreigners were trying to speak to you in Chinese.

Rather than regretting my foreign origin, I began to reflect on the outdated Chinese way of looking at foreigners.

Many foreigners have the impression that everyone in the U. S. is likely to be in a rush and under pressure.

The big limitation of the open-skies arrangement was that it left in place the 25% limit on foreigners' stakes in American carriers.

and in selecting foreigners as targets: hostage-takers seem to have sought out American, British and Israeli victims.

And he said , one day I'll make a Chinese film with foreign subtitles for the foreigners to watch .

Japanese companies are not so much wary of foreigners as they are closed to outsiders of any stripe.

"Beijing and Shanghai are trying to become international cities but foreigners can't easily buy [flats], " Ms Zhang said.

But what foreign parents have in common is an eagerness to see their children educated with Britons rather than many other foreigners.

Foreigners have already raised concerns about this bailout-style protectionism and the potential of a global trade war.

And courts have shown themselves willing to rule against claims by foreigners when no significant publication took place in England.

Our people seem to have the notion that foreigners are being hypocritical, and ridicule the advice.

foreigners can pay $50 a night for an air-conditioned tent on the lawn of the Palm Inn, a hotel by the airport.

Contact us and tell what you think, so that foreigners tutor to help you progress!

It has no specific visa for foreigners who wish to create new companies.

I cannot bear to see my countrymen defeated by a parcel of foreigners.

Robert Parker is one of only a handful of foreigners to have received France's two highest Presidential honors.

But these days, foreigners are buying up apartments and houses, heavily investing money here, and trying to build actual lives here.

With a good grasp of English, we would be able to communicate easily with foreigners.

Many Chinese, surrounded by a large homogeneous population, still consider foreigners to be very different.

Some are beginning to speak up, challenging a widespread notion that homosexuality was brought in by foreigners.

"Maybe to target foreigners because this might have to pressure the Kremlin from the outside, " noted Soldatov.

"Maybe to target foreigners because this might have to pressure the Kremlin from the outside, " noted Soldatov.

Calls by the rebel council for foreigners to come to the rescue, muted a week ago, sound increasingly desperate.

As a student in Shanghai, I should learn English well so that I can be a volunteer in the Expo to help foreigners know more about Shanghai .

Kenyans are the most numerous foreigners in Juba, the would-be state's capital, with property agents and a host of consultants to the fore.

Still, Mr Michael, who served as one of the only foreigners on China Mobile's advisory board, believes SASAC deserves some praise.

Most Americans have never been out of the country and have very little experience with foreigners.

Several busloads of foreigners, with nationalities ranging from Pakistani to Nigerian, were trucked to the event, she said.

For foreigners living in Burkina Faso, there's always a time for conversations about bodily functions. Here's one of those times.

The new protectionism is always liable to be justified as "retaliation" for the bad faith of foreigners.

Despite this, I've heard quite a few foreigners remark at the optimistic, hospitable, friendly disposition of the Taiwan people.

Foreigners living on the other side of the ocean, remake China into the lives of ordinary people are a bit acclimatized , even ridiculous.

The United States had some $88 billion in short-term liquid liabilities owed to foreigners asa result of the balance of payments deficits.

'We don't want interfering foreigners on this coast, ' he said, somewhat truculently .

Foreigners have taken to the place in a way that Canadians have not.

The beginning of this century, and repeated bad foreigners banditry destruction, worse, beyond recognition.

In the Kiev of that era, it was still dangerous to associate with foreigners, so my friends were mostly dissidents and their supporters.

HK style BBQ starts. . . obviuosly, foreigners are usually not used to HK style BBQ, their food is always easily burnt.

Language is not such a problem. That is the knowledge what is possible and what is not possible in contacts with foreigners.

or a child below the age of seven are foreigners rented to the prior consent of the landlord, and care must be accompanied by staff.

Observers said the effect would likely be small, since foreigners make up a tiny proportion of China property sales.

I saw many foreigners in Beijing and I had a pleasant conversation with a lady from America.

And talented, educated foreigners have made up for a lack of highly skilled local workers too.

The foreigners, some of them migrant workers, are being used for security in urban areas, freeing up other soldiers to fight the rebels.

College student Meng Jia and several of her classmates are working on a study of foreigners in Guangzhou.

The law also made it illegal to provide prisoners' organs to foreigners, colloquially known as "organ tourists" or "transplant tourists. "

This together with a multiracial society, informal lifestyle and agreeable climate, lures foreigners to its shores.

An added problem is that many English-speaking foreigners are too polite to let you know they haven' t understood.

FOREIGNERS have always struggled to exercise any sort of control over Afghanistan.

But locals loth to let foreigners make profits have forced a delay until after the general election due in January.

What could it matter to any of them how the city appears to transient foreigners like me?

"Foreigners know how much these things should cost, but domestic customers have just started celebrating Christmas and they have no idea. "

Fisherman's Wharf, a place all foreigners want to see, is at the end of the ride.

In fact, many consist of foreigners acquiring just a sliver of the Chinese company as a financial investment with no say over operations.

During the last six years, 44 of 60 scholarship winners have been the children of foreigners.

Overseas Chinese Village is one of the works in the early stage of Tianhong 20 years ago, the only high-grade apartment for foreigners then.

Today only a thousand foreigners a year are allowed into the region.

Only days later, Beijing announced that the brokerage industry would remain closed to foreigners for at least another year.

But as the savings market expands, Asian countries may be less comfortable about foreigners taking a sizeable share of it.

Their circle of friends were mainly other foreigners, none of whom spoke Chinese or seemed the least bit interested in learning.

He is internationally known as the most formidable politician. His confidence , grace can be seen through the eyes of foreigners!

Foreigners have risen to the occasion, engaging in a furious competition to outdo one another in praise of the Middle Kingdom.

The negative was the reality that the big threat to foreigners was not in the air but on the streets.

At least, when foreigners had to pay more, there was less grumbling.

"Even if foreigners charge into Japanese real estate, it is only a small percentage of the overall market, " says Mr Yasuda.

A recent survey found that most foreigners who visited Britain think the British are "unfriendly and have almost no sense of humor" .

This book tries to improve individual' s abilities to understand and cooperate with foreigners.

"The locals rush past the foreigners, who are often uncertain on their bikes and going slowly, " she said.

These people mourn for the loss of a cultural event which attracted thousands of foreigners from all over the world.

It would seem, then, that retail is one of the few industries in which foreigners are really welcome.

As well as making foreigners more expensive, the government is trying to make locals more employable.

In fact, after coming back to China, I found a lot of foreigners around me who are really good at Chinese especially their speaking Chinese.

The recent violence against black foreigners is a reminder that the bottom third of South Africans still face gnawing poverty.

The Beaufort house was one that New Yorkers were proud to show to foreigners, especially on the night of the annual ball.

But we are in and foreigners will avoid formal communication of Chinese style English, usually, there must be a good grammar habit.

These animals had not been seen by foreigners in almost thirty years.

For You have made a city a ruin, A fortified city a ruin, A palace of foreigners to be a city no more; It will never be rebuilt.

YES! When dealing with foreigners it is a good idea to ask this question and then try to repeat back what the foreigner has just said.

The only relevant difference between productivity and trade is the all too visible involvement of foreigners, who do not have votes.

As part of traditional Chinese culture, ink painting has suffered to such an extent that has nothing to do with foreigners but all our own.

Those who do buy at home don't go to the Bund; they consider it a shopping destination more for foreigners than for locals.

It's also a warning to all gamblers across the world that China is not a place any more where foreigners can behave disrespectfully.

English ability must be eighth grade or equivalent, and able to communicate with foreigners well orally.

Were it not for equally despised laws preventing companies from delisting their shares, many foreigners would be gone in a moment.

"Looks like foreigners cannot be eating some of the food we Chinese can eat, " complained one commentator on the scol. com. cn website.

Do you really want to leave all this behind, travel across Europe, and risk your life fighting foreigners who follow a different faith?

This people shall give their dwelling back to the earlier inhabitants, and the destruction of foreigners will be clear for all to see.

And, he said, commercial property investment by foreigners doesn't pose the same political problems.

Buses are the only public transport. Most taxis operate without licenses, making foreigners easy prey for overcharging.

With unemployment still at nearly 10%, few politicians are brave enough to be seen encouraging foreigners to compete for American jobs.

Firstly, I decide learn English well so that I can be a volunteer in the Expo to help foreigners know more about Shanghai and China.

Scenic Area in the same encounter of foreigners to travel, would like to get a picture with him, should Gaizenmeshuo?

Some countries through the transfer within the airport transit visas for foreigners who do not need.

I would, for a foreigner I don't even know, give my own life. I think foreigners are more important than my life.

Crunching the numbers, I realized that foreigners have been psyching themselves out about writing about China for at least 122 years.

And, importantly, are the foreigners long willing to lend freely to the U. S. starting to lose their appetite for American debt?

Until recently, though, lax enforcement has meant that foreigners working illicitly have been able to stay undetected for years.

Some 25 of them, he said, had slipped across the desert and marched the foreigners into Eritrea.

My customers here in Sanya are mostly foreigners, but I also get a good number of middle-aged Chinese people who have grown up flying kites.

If all that foreigners knew about China were pigtails and bound feet, I'd feel angry--but saddened even more!

Usually, when foreigners show up in these places, it is with aid, pity and lectures (or, in one instance, arrest warrants for war crimes).

Zanu-PF would be loth to admit publicly that it was backing down over anything, least of all in the face of foreigners and whites.

How often we find that the foreigners whom we thought to be such different people from ourselves are not very different at all!

Besides, would the locals be sheltered from competition if these foreigners did not COME to Singapore?

So dont let anyone, especially foreigners, to tell you it wasn't shame and humiliation down to the core.

Many of the foreigners who fetch up in Syrian jails are radicals who have been involved in religious schools.

He took some photographs for the foreigners.

In the evening or at night the streets are empty, and if you do happen to see a group of relaxed, happy people, they are usually foreigners.

Foreigners sit mutely, trying to follow what's being said.

You said the festival, however foreigners, today is Tanabata Chinese Valentine's Day, the bar ha ha!

The system was segregated from systems used by foreigners and could not be used for international calls.

I suddenly felt a little bit awkward, as we really can be laughing when foreigners are speaking Chinese, and I WAS smiling.

She certainly had courage galore, as well as the gift of impressing foreigners, who often rallied to her in times of need.

China still tends to try to keep the foreigners in Beijing and Shanghai.

Wu Wei said he and Zhang's team will seek development chances for Zhang Wuben and will try to earn foreigners' money.

Most Japanese are more cautious towards foreigners, don't you think?

But I felt I should let folks know about this hotel's policy toward foreigners.

Those who marry foreigners think real love is nothing to do with someone from another culture since their relationships are based on love.

Foreigners of late have not found the U. S. to be a receptive, high-return home for investment.

The United States says al-Shabab has links to al-Qaida, and foreigners are believed to be fighting alongside the Somali insurgents.

Forty thousand extra police officers have been on the beat and a comprehensive security plan has kept locals and foreigners safe and secure.

The likely costs of the new measures are unknown. It is possible, but not certain, that foreigners will face stiffer taxes than locals.

Expo visitors and more Chinese people, very few foreigners will not like me so patiently waiting and wandering, they would stay a few days?

Warning bells that the "offshore" way of managing foreigners' money was under threat had been ringing for some time.

It is also a grammar point that most foreigners do not know the name of.

Not in Australia. The Labor government, under Kevin Rudd, is looking to increase the numbers of foreigners allowed to settle.

'I think foreigners are being taken for a ride by the U. S. government, ' says Andy Xie, an independent economist in Shanghai.

Magnificent scenes and bright light let the foreigners to acclaim it as a marvel, and realized that all is not gold that glitters.

It's not unheard of that the authorities get upset when foreigners poke around in what they consider being "their business" .

Learning income: one, to understand foreign culture, Two, communicate directly with foreigners.

It seems like the southern coast is a place where many Britons, Scandinavians and foreigners in general come to enjoy themselves.

Beijing tells foreigners that they can understand the city, that we have the same sort of buildings: the Bird's Nest, the CCTV tower.

Foreigners tend to have long names, but usually we only need to call them by their first names.

Foreign borrowing is determined ONLY by if the U. S. chooses to borrow from foreigners, and NOTHING ELSE, end of story.

As Mexico defaulted, Brazil, which had also borrowed a lot from foreigners, found itself mistrusted too.

The other houses around us were either abandoned or rented by foreigners: the French Embassy and the BBC were around the corner.

Now that foreigners are again flocking to India's stockmarket (see chart), capital inflows are once more playing on the RBI's mind.

On both sides of the street are a few hundred shops, selling mainly souvenirs and antiques to (cater for) the foreigners' tastes.

An obvious danger would be a decision by foreigners, particularly foreign governments, to dump their enormous dollar holdings.

foreigners is neither seen nor eaten sesame dumplings, did not think the analogy to humor.

He said he has spoken English to some foreigners before.

They did not want to admit to any problem or shortcomings, let alone discuss them with foreigners.

Foreign tourists planning to visit Tibet were told that the region would be closed to foreigners until the end of March.

Yet for all the new agreements, stringent protection of foreigners' intellectual property is at odds with China's development strategy.

Now, the only foreigners browsing the clothing racks are usually aid workers, diplomats or journalists.

But while foreigners get much of the blame for rising prices , they account for only a small fraction of total real estate investment .

Residents of Soweto, or other urban areas in South Africa, are likely to grumble about foreigners in the same way as in rich countries.

Even if locals turn up or not, foreigners will definitely come if it is declared a tourist site.

Nowadays, many girls seem to be bewitched by ghosts and they are determined to marry foreigners .

I think some Chinese done marry foreigners for money while others just want to live abroad. There is no true love between them.

They fret, too, that foreigners might attempt to blockade the country in the event of a war over Taiwan.

The Chinese do not appear to be much impressed by the undoubted ability of individual foreigners in practical lines.

Jack is the commen use among foreigners, it also stand for the man of a couple of lovers.

"Nobody cared about Misasa until now, " Ms. Mifune said. "Now that foreigners might be after it, suddenly everyone cares. "

All foreigners who took the survey did not take the accident seriously.

STREAM of foreigners trickles in, and usually out, of the fetid jails of Bangkok.

She had joined up with a set of foreigners, dangerous pirates .

The few foreigners left in Yemen are either making plans to leave or are stockpiling food.

You think of Tianmu as a place where foreigners live.

As long as you are not talking to us, not making peace with us, we will not let the foreigners leave.

Despite the benefits to the U. S. economy, many policymakers remain nervous about foreigners controlling certain American assets.

Also come there are many foreigners inside shift, the extraterrestrial being to take a look at sometimes the meeting.

The postcard I had was a picture of a language university in Beijing that specialized in teaching Mandarin to foreigners.

BRITAIN'S previous prime minister, Gordon Brown, was not always keen on meeting foreigners nor very good at hiding it.

Even as foreigners have been kept out of China, Chinese firms have started to court partners in markets overseas, including on Wall Street.

I wish to get acquainted with some more foreigners. Can you introduce some of your friends for me?

Since the summer, foreigners have unwound the yen carry trade with a vengeance, driving the yen up.

If foreign-born permanent residents are included, Singapore has Asia's largest population of foreigners as a proportion of its residents.

He looked surprised and responded, as I recall: Who said anything about Japanese. They were foreigners.

But to the majority of Singlish speakers, I urge you to hobnob with those who speak good English, whether they locals or foreigners.

I said, "We are not accomplished in talking, especially talking with foreigners. "

Getting a Chinese work visa is very easy for most foreigners, but it's hard for young ones with less than two years' work experience.

Meanwhile, as American debts swell and foreigners hold more of it, nervousness grows that, some day, this arrangement will end badly.

But many complain about the impact that stringent security precautions and tightened visa restrictions for foreigners have had on business.

(Foreigners are allowed to invest in new Australian dwellings - a rule designed to stimulate housing construction).

A few cantons have granted long-term resident foreigners the right to vote, mainly only at communal level.

But American culture has never felt all that foreign to foreigners.

In the U. S. , foreigners hold roughly a quarter of the outstanding Treasury notes, making the market inherently more unstable.

Besides, the deal has aroused Chinese public sentiment against the sale of a beloved domestic brand to foreigners, Reuters noted.

On the question of whether foreigners can ever really know "China, " we should recognize that there are certain barriers to understanding.

Nor is there a law to regulate oil companies, although Iraq is about to open its fields to foreigners for auction.