Foreign experts who carry gold, silver – or products made of gold or silver – should declare them to China Customs, and Customs officers are likely to approve reasonable quantities for private use. Items which are over the legal limit will be regarded as imported goods – and the owner must obtain a legal document […]
Language, as we have seen, seems to be a highly developed form of animal signaling. But there is a missing link in rhe chain. How, and when, did we start to talk?
Today is the 70th anniversary of Auschwitz liberation – Holocaust Memorial Day – see a past Exhibition presented by HKTTC and Spear Translation at PolyU in Hong Kong.
The cradle of civilization refers to countries or places that saw the birth of the earliest civilization, i.e. ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, ancient China and ancient India, sometimes ancient Greece is also included.
Chinese characters are one of the four oldest writing systems in the world, among which only Chinese characters are still currently in use.
India has been putting effort in raising the position of Hindi, which is firstly related to her dream of “superpower”. It is commonly accepted that language is a kind of soft power, exhibiting its huge influence imperceptibly.
It is generally accepted by linguists that, if two spoken languages are not directly communicable, they can be defined as two different languages.
Advertisement translation is a public act of information exchange, which takes an important role in promoting a product, service and idea through newspaper, television and broadcast by payment. Advertisement translation therefore is more than an economic activity but a medium to promote culture.
There are two ways for products to enter a new target market. One is a full launch of the new product to a segmented target market while the other is a rolling launch with certain steps.
“Survey on Trends of Translation” is a survey conducted annually by Spear Translation for the purpose of finding out the changes of linguistic services used by businesses and individuals under the highly globalized and digitalized world. The survey interviewed 500 individuals from New York, Hong Kong, London and Shanghai, and all of them are the Executives/Directors of their corresponding companies.
