immigrants entering the US in 2001 was almost 350,000, some 132,034 immigrants from Asia and Pacific entered Canada and some 40,000 Asians entered Australia in that same year. It is virtually impossible to calculate accurately the number of Chinese as information on ethnicity is rarely collected as part of the data on immigration. Obviously, the overwhelming majority of migrants from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Singapore in recent years have been Chinese, but large numbers of those from Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, as well as Malaysia and The Philippines, were also ethnic Chinese