Most Asia fund managers also look for companies that appeal to Asian consumers, whose affluence is growing.
It did best of all among Asians such as Mr Uppal whose families fled persecution in east Africa four decades ago.But overall, Labour enjoyed a crushing dominance among ethnic-minority voters even among British blacks and Asians whose affluence, or robust views on crime and public spending, might make them natural Conservative voters.
The upward trend seen in the prostate cancer incidence rates in Singaporean Chinese has also been reported in other developed countries in Asia such as Japan, China-Hong Kong and China-Shanghai [ 17], whose affluence have also led to the adoption of more westernized diets.
Crime aside, however, South Norwalk's rough-and-tumble edges make it more down-to-earth than other towns in the region, whose showy affluence has earned it the nickname the Gold Coast.
Fuelling the AKP's rise, according to its advocates, has been the emergence of a new religious, conservative middle class from Turkey's Anatolian heartland, whose increasing affluence has undermined the economic power base of the army and other traditional secular pillars, such as the judiciary.
In "Rêve Haitien," Mason, an O.A.S. observer in Port-au-Prince, loses at chess to a proud, angry Haitian whose bearing hints at "old affluence, also an attitude, a sexually purposed life that had been abandoned some time ago".
This time, many younger South Koreans, whose memories are of steadily rising affluence instead of the hardships of the Korean War, believe that Korean blood is thicker than political ideology.
Kienholz was the most satirical and politically conscious of the great American artists, a splenetic and grotesque scenarist whose tableaux revile the American dream, mocking postwar affluence with dark echoes of the Depression and an atmosphere of fetid decay.
Kann, whose first book this is, relates the flower-filled affluence and heartache of her youth, but her descriptions are methodical rather than illuminating.
Although it occupied the first rung of Alfred P. Sloan's General Motors hierarchy, a ladder on which customers would move up to more expensive brands as they gained affluence, Chevy developed a following of fans whose devotion lasted a lifetime.
Further testimony to the neighborhood's affluence is offered at the Henry Street Settlement, whose buildings include three adjoining landmark Federal houses at 263 to 267 Henry Street, near Montgomery Street.
