Asian-owned businesses are also an engine of job creation, of the 1.5 million Asian-owned businesses in 2007, 397,484 had paid employees.

In 2007 Asian-owned business with employees averaged 7 employees and payroll per employee increased 12% from 2002 to 2007.

Now it's all small, Asian-owned businesses.

The number of Asian-owned businesses grew 24 percent over the period.

When he came to Houston in the early 1970's, Asian-owned business barely registered in the dizzying energy-led boom.

Asian-owned businesses are commonplace within the area, including many food stores and restaurants.

Scores of Asian-owned businesses - from automobile plants to supermarkets and software companies -have come on stream during the last 10 years.

Morris Powell consequently organized sporadic protests on 125th Street to rail against individual white-owned or Asian-owned businesses.

Pomona's Asian-owned businesses had filed the lawsuit.

The number of Asian-owned businesses skyrocketed by nearly 1,000 percent from 1972 to 1987.