There are some 15 million Chinese in South-East Asia. They can play an extremely useful role as catalysts in the process of modernising our economies. Lee Kuan Yew, Prime Minister of Singapore A lot of people talk about the Chinese as the Jews of South-East Asia, it isn't fair to the Jews, it isn't fair to the Chinese. P.G. Lim, Barrister Racial integration is not a problem exclusive to the Western world. Tonight's documentary, specially filmed in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, and the Philippines, looks at this problem through Eastern eyes. The Chinese emigrant communities, formed by the breakup of the old Chinese empire, provide a nucleus of people with the drive, energy and business acumen to drag South-East Asia into the 20th century. But the price of their economic and political success has been the envy, fear and often hatred of the peoples among whom the emigrant Chinese now choose to live. Cameraman RAY HENMAN Written by MICHAEL DAVIE Produced by RUSSELL SPURR A BBC/Intertel Production made for the CBC, ABC, and NEtV