Sentence examples for Asian merchants from inspiring English sources

Asian merchants have been operating various formats of employee-free shops to the point that it is considered an emerging business model.

None of the Asian merchants appeared to take offense at his comments.

Mr. Kearney and Mr. Farrell have sought to build on their long ties with Asian merchants and civic organizations.

The attack last week, on Afghan, Caucasian and Asian merchants in southern Moscow, followed a similar brawl last April on the anniversary of Hitler's birthday.

Malaysia attracted Asian merchants and Arab adventurers long before the Europeans arrived to trade in the 16th century and before workers from China and India came in the 19th century to plant rubber and mine tin.

Other minorities include a small group of Europeans (mostly missionaries, employees of relief and development programs, and entrepreneurs), a small number of Asian merchants, and Africans from Tanzania, Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and elsewhere.

But as Rajaratnam and Trehan focused on the nuts and bolts of Voyager, Gupta seemed taken with more grandiose concepts, like turning the fund into a platform on which to build an Asian merchant-banking business.

Ms. Harrison and others credit Asian-American merchants with reviving Flushing's commercial district, which was nearly derelict in the early 1980's.

Throughout Samarkand, with its spectacular monuments to Islamic splendor and Central Asian barbarism, the merchants, the hoteliers and the beggars are speaking variations of the same theme.

To the southeast, they gained prominence in the sultanate of Johor, which, at the tip of the peninsula, was a prosperous trading entrepôt that attracted Asian and European merchants.

Proto-globalization trade and communications involved a vast group including European, Muslim, Indian, Southeast Asian and Chinese merchants, particularly in the Indian Ocean region.