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Wan Luan Song ((69) and his wife Qi Di Huang (54) have a traditional herbalist practice in Chinatown. She came in 1988 from Guangzhou, .China and met her husband in Panama. They have their own practice since 1997. They came for economical reasons...It was already in 1854 that the first Chinese came to Panama to work on the Panamanian railway, many of them came down from the US after the gold rush. By now its the largest number of Chinese in central America: 200,000. In the 80's when the China was opening up their was a second big wave of Chinese arriving. Panamanian Chinese have a stung influence on the Panamanian economy. (KEYSTONE/NOOR/Kadir van Lohuizen / NOOR)