Monday, January 7th, 2019
A client visited us this week confused about China’s requirements for her consulting and potentially a large contract to deliver services in China. It turns out that communications had been hampered by poor translation. She had been relying on a PhD student in her field but, as we often see, such ‘translators’ are not trained
Monday, April 30th, 2018
With estimated over 700 million viewers of online videos in China (statista.com) and growing, it’s time to make video part of your China strategy. Video advertising consumption in China overtook television advertising a long time ago. A...
Monday, April 16th, 2018
Boao Forum shows there is a long road ahead for Machine Translation Under the theme “An Open and Innovative Asia for a World of Greater Prosperity”, the Boao Forum 2018 was held last week in south China’s...
Friday, September 8th, 2017
We’ve come full circle since first establishing ourselves as Chinese translation experts 25 years ago, marketing our brand and language translation service to a diverse audience across the globe. We made our mark in Australia, China, and...
Monday, August 21st, 2017
There’s a lot of jargon around translation out there. Barely a week goes by without seeing someone blogging on about some fancy new idea, or tossing in some made up translation accreditation. Crowd sourcing was one. In...
Monday, May 15th, 2017
There I was at Athens Airport in August 2004 when I observed a couple of familiar looking faces; ‘I must have done interpreting for them’, I thought. Later it dawned on me: I’d just seen Roy and...
Monday, May 8th, 2017
Travelling back and forth to China and Canberra are well-beaten paths in my profession of Mandarin Interpreter. But over 25 years in business, my interpreting career has taken me to some other unexpected places. Back in 2001...
Friday, April 28th, 2017
Offered to All New Clients Start off with 10% OFF Your First Translation! Chin Communications helps businesses, governments, and organisations communicate effectively through our Chinese translation services: Product packaging and labels Marketing brochures and flyers Business cards...
Wednesday, April 12th, 2017
A bright tie stands out – Mandarin Interpreter Charles Qin keeping up with an action-packed agenda. Carefully choreographed with many events on the program, the visit of Premier Li Keqiang (China’s number 2) was a big deal with...
Monday, December 12th, 2016
The Boao Forum has been running since 2001 and it came to Melbourne for the first time last week. As the pre-eminent international forum in the Asia Pacific (the equivalent of Davos in Europe), this was a...
