1.   Because of their Chinese origins, noodles are the only food in Thailand eaten with chopsticks, though that is changing.

2.   Beginning in the fourth or fifth millennium B.C., pottery and stone tools of unmistakably southern Chinese origins appear on the island of Taiwan.

3.   A person of Chinese origin, held for deportation, claimed to be a U.S. citizen.

4.   Eventually, the Army promised that no American soldier would ever go off to war, or even to KP duty, wearing a chapeau of Chinese origin.

5.   Mr Lee is of Chinese origin, but was born in Vietnam.

6.   That person, he added, was not of Chinese origin.

7.   The images of flowers, birds and mythic beasts suggested that they might be of Chinese origin.

8.   The presence of lead in Singapore suggests metal of Chinese origin.

9.   After he was ransomed, one prominent Filipino businessman of Chinese origin said he went to the police and saw one of his abductors there.

10.   Conventional wisdom is also encouraged by a negative attitude toward a certain group, for example businesspeople of Chinese origin, or government agent.