Foreigners were only recently allowed to use cellphones in the country.
It is only foreigners who react with amazement to the country's plethora of strikes and demonstrations.
"We have to understand that foreigners often think that Buddhism is only a philosophy.
Mr Saeed praises the army operation, saying it is "only targeting foreigners brought to Pakistan to carry out bomb attacks and violence".
In China, it's also prudent to leave room for the sweet soups or starchy staples such as rice or noodles, that, to most foreigners' surprise, are only served as the finishing touches at traditional banquets.
Most of the time today, however, foreigners are noticed only to the extent that they provide an opportunity for, or create an obstacle to, a business deal some Chinese dreamer has in his or her sights.
The idea was to impose a flat fee in return for ignoring their offshore earnings; previously foreigners were taxed only on such money as they brought into the country.Soak the rich…The British authorities are generally agreed to have made a mess of the proposals.
One reason why the French government, unlike backbench parliamentarians, has sung rather piano in the European chorus criticising Echelon, the electronic eavesdropping system operated by the United States, Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, is that it has a similar system of its own.Not that foreigners are the only ones honoured with the attentions of the gumshoes.
For example, in food assistance programs for vulnerable Colombians, WFP also delegates food and electronic food vouchers to vulnerable Ecuadorians, so that Ecuadorians do not feel as if "foreigners" are the only ones whom WFP supports.
Cairo is such a fantastically vibrant city that it can be impossible to gauge the presence of foreigners, but there were only a handful of tourist minibuses at the Pyramids, no other foreigners at the Sphinx and we had the Tutankhamun galleries and the rest of the Egyptian Museum to ourselves.
