as a new cultural attraction. United Arab Emirates There are approximately 180,000 Chinese people in the United Arab Emirates, 150,000 of whom are in Dubai. Many Chinese expatriates hail from the Wenzhou region. In 2018, Emirati-based developer Emaar announced a project to build the Middle East's largest Chinatown in Dubai Creek Harbour. The plan itself coincided with the visit of China's paramount leader, Xi Jinping, to the country. In Abu Dhabi, a small Chinatown exists in Madinat Zayed. Vietnam Ethnic Chinese have been moving to Vietnam for centuries. During the transition of power from Ming dynasty to Qing dynasty in China, many anti-Qing elements fled prosecution and came to Vietnam. To avoid angering the Qing government, Vietnam government decided to send them south to populate the scarcely populated area. They pioneered many settlements in the south of the country including Saigon, or as it is known today, Ho Chi Minh City (Hồ Chí Minh). Ho Chi Minh City's Chinatown is the Cholon district which has been a stronghold for the Chinese-Vietnamese community since the late 1770s, when many Cantonese and Teochew Chinese arrived. Its main thoroughfares are Nguyen Trai Street (Nguyễn Trãi) and Tran Hung Dao Street (Trần Hưng Đạo). The Cholon area was the bastion of ethnic Chinese Vietnamese free enterprise until the Vietnamese communist government confiscated private property in the area. Prior to Sino-Vietnamese War the Vietnamese government decided to expel the Sino-Vietnamese from the Northern part of the country hence the second wave of boat people many of whom went to China. After the period of the Vietnam War and Sino-Vietnamese War (the late 1970s and early 1980s), many Chinese Vietnamese (called in Vietnamese the Viet Hoa) along with their ethnic Vietnamese, or the Viet Kinh, compatriots fled the country as "boat people". However, this third wave were mostly ethnic Vietnamese. As a result, there are many overseas Chinese Vietnamese communities in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, and the United States. Nevertheless, Vietnam still has a remnant ethnic Chinese community. Discrimination and anti-Chinese sentiment In 1997, the Asian financial crisis loomed over Asia and caused political turmoil. Although several Southeast Asian leaders such as Malaysia's prime minister blamed the Western-dominated International Monetary Fund for the economic problems. References External links Chinatown.SG – Singapore Chinatown's official website index Singapore Chinatown Welcome to Hakka Community – Twilight descends on Calcutta's Chinatown Singapore's Chinatown The Chinatown of Malacca, Malaysia Asia