Multicultural Australia

礁石垂釣可能會有危險的…出發前請查看天氣！

2012-02-17T08:31:00.000+11:00

請小心注意以下…一種或多種情況綜合就可能會造成危險∶
• 漲潮和高潮
• 大浪
• 強風

該做些什麼…見以下“該怎麼做...”所列步驟

第一．查看高潮時間 - 漲潮時水可以覆蓋你垂釣的礁石區。漲潮和高潮可導致浪潮進入礁石垂釣區。您可能會被困或從岩石上給高潮捲走。

第二．查看大浪預告 – 大浪或浪濤可能會有危險的。您可能會給大浪捲離礁石垂釣點。

第三．查看強風預告 - 強風可能會引起危險的大浪或把您推離濕滑的岩石。

該怎麼做...

一．查看惡劣天氣警告 – 有關異常高潮，破壞性強風和/或破壞性衝浪的信息可從以下網站查看http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/warnings/index.shtml

二．查看海岸水域的預告 – 注意風力高於每小時15 海裡，以及海浪或浪濤大於1.5 米。風浪可能超出預告數字的兩倍。在新州，也可從http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/ 網站，查看“危險的打破近岸” (breaking dangerously close inshore)有關的討論信息。

三．查看漲潮預告 - 有關漲潮和高潮的信息可從以下網站查看http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/

鏈接礁石垂釣安全網站
安全釣魚網站- http://www.safefishing.com.au/Rock%20fishing.html

Check the weather first!

2012-02-15T08:28:00.000+11:00

바위 낚시는 위험할 수 있습니다... 떠나기 전에 날씨를 확인하세요!

다음 사항을 주의하십시오… 하나 이상이 겹치면 위험할 수 있습니다.
• 상승 조류 및 만조
• 큰 파도
• 강풍

무엇을 해야 하나… 각 단계에 대해서는 아래 ‘어떻게 해야 하나’ 에 있는 지침을 확인하십시오.

1단계: 만조(밀물)가 언제인지 확인하십시오 - 만조시에는 물결이 귀하가 낚시를 하고 있는 바위를 덮을 수 있습니다. 조류가 상승하거나 밀물시에 낚시 지점에 파도가 부딪힐 수 있고, 이로 인해 발이 미끄러 지거나 바위에서 휩쓸려 갈 수 있습니다..

2단계: 큰 파도를 주의하십시오 - 큰 파도나 너울은 위험할 수 있습니다. 큰 파도로 인해 낚시를 하고 있는 바위에서 휩쓸려 갈 수 있습니다.

3단계: 강풍을 확인하십시오 - 강풍으로 인해 큰 파도가 생기거나, 바위가 젖어서 미끄러울 때, 미끄러져 떨어질 수 있습니다.

어떻게 해야 하나…
1. 기상 경보를 확인하십시오 - 비정상적으로 높은 조류, 위험 수위의 바람 그리고/혹은 위험 수위의 파도 등.
http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/warnings/index.shtml 에서 정보를 찾아보실 수 있습니다.

2. 해안 지역 예보를 확인하십시오 - 15 노트 이상의 바람, 1.5미터 이상의 파도 혹은 너울을 확인하십시오. 바람과 파도는 예상 수치보다 2배까지 상승할 수 있습니다. NSW 주의 경우 ‘내륙쪽으로 위험하게 부서지는 파도(breaking dangerously close inshore)’ 라는 설명을 눈여겨 보시기 바랍니다.
http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/ 에서 정보를 찾아보실 수 있습니다.

3. 조류 예보를 확인하십시오 – 상승 조류나 만조에 대한 정보를 확인하십시오.
http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/ 에서 정보를 찾아보실 수 있습니다.

바위 낚시 안전을 위한 사이트 링크
낚시 안전(Safe Fishing) 웹사이트 - http://www.safefishing.com.au/Rock%20fishing.html

Torrential rain and water safety

2012-02-13T12:28:00.000+11:00

Lightning and flash flooding are causing havoc in Australia. It's time for a remind about water safety.

Rock fishing can be dangerous… check the weather before you go!

Be careful of the following… a combination of one or more could be dangerous:
•   Rising tides and high tides
•   Large waves
•   Strong winds

What to do… See instructions for all steps below in ‘how to…’

Step 1. CHECK when high tide is – High tide can cover your rock fishing spot with water. Rising tides and high tides make waves break onto rock fishing locations. You may get trapped or swept off the rock by a high tide.

Step 2. CHECK for large waves – Large seas or swell waves can be dangerous. You may get swept off your rock fishing spot by large waves.

Step 3. CHECK for strong winds – Strong winds can create dangerous waves or push you off wet, slippery rocks.

How to do it…

1. Check for Severe Weather Warnings – for abnormally high tide, damaging winds and /or damaging surf.
Available at http://www.bom.gov.au/australia/warnings/index.shtml

2. Check Coastal Waters Forecast – for winds above 15 knots, and seas or swell greater than 1.5m. Wind and waves can reach double the forecasted figure.
In NSW also look for comment ‘breaking dangerously close inshore’.
Available at http://www.bom.gov.au/marine/

3. Check Tide Predictions – for rising tides and high tides.
Available at http://www.bom.gov.au/oceanography/tides/

Links to rock fishing safety site
Safe Fishing website - http://www.safefishing.com.au/Rock%20fishing.html

Happy Year of the Dragon!

2012-01-16T07:52:00.002+11:00

Happy Lunar New Year to Chinese, Vietnamese and anyone who celebrates it on 23 January!

Thank you Italian readers!

2012-01-05T20:10:00.001+11:00

Chopsticks Culture has just reached No.3 best selling English travel ebook and No.4 best selling English educational ebook in Amazon Italy.

- Bestseller in Viaggi

- Bestseller in Educazione

Thank you!

Happy Holidays!

2011-12-23T17:49:00.002+11:00

Happy Holidays and A Wonderful 2012!

MMM will reopens on Monday 9 January 2012.

Free resources for hospitality staff

2011-12-17T04:50:00.000+11:00

We're proud to announce another new phone app in Android for hospitality staff, executives and employers. It's a free training and educational tool for you to delight and charm Chinese tourists and guests.

You can download it by pressing here.

Charming the Chinese Guests (Lite) is a free educational training app for hospitality industry staff, executives and employers who want to provide delightful experience to Chinese tourists and guests.

It contains:
- tips about the needs of your Chinese guests
- managing cultural differences and conflicts
- useful phrases in Chinese for hospitality staff
- free bilingual (English and Chinese) survey form for you to use in your hotel/destination

Let us know what you think and what other information you need so we can update it regularly.

Advertising Standards Bureau

2011-12-15T07:38:00.004+11:00

A safe sex campaign poster featuring two men hugging, an ad portraying an Indian person as a door-to-door salesman and a billboard offering free copies of the Koran were the most complained about advertisements of 2011.

But the board of the Advertising Standards Bureau dismissed the 222 complaints about the "Rip and Roll" campaign, which became the centre of public debate in June after the poster featuring a hugging gay couple was removed from Brisbane bus shelters.

Read more from Sydney Morning Herald.

Advertising has been around for centuries. Often it creates controversy and debates. Perhaps it's time to review some old advertisements. The ones below are from the 19th century:

Photos source from Wikimedia.

Bratislava's winter beauty

2011-12-12T07:08:00.000+11:00

Finally, I bring you the winter beauty of Bratislava, capital of Slovakia. I went there when I was studying German in Vienna. It's about 2 to 3 hours by train to go from Vienna to Bratislava. We went there on a day trip. I was charmed by its old city, even though it's very cold.

Chopsticks Culture available for free

2011-12-08T07:58:00.001+11:00

By popular demand, we have developed a FREE version of our best selling iPhone app Chopsticks Culture. The Lite version has less dishes, about 60 of them and only one game level. It's available in iTunes store.

We're pleased to report that Chopsticks Culture has been sold to customers in Australia, USA, Germany, UK, Canada and Switzerland. If you're going to China for a visit soon, this iPhone app will be one of your best travel companions. Press here to check out detail of Chopsticks Culture Lite.

Less travelled roads in Korea

2011-12-07T07:00:00.000+11:00

Continue with this week holiday theme. Here are a few photos from my travel in Korea. We didn't see a lot of westerners travelling by public transport to some of the less popular places we've been to. But there are many interested sights in the less travelled roads.

Wonderful Townsville

2011-12-05T07:54:00.000+11:00

Christmas is near. What's your holiday plan? Early this year, I went to Cairns and Townsville for holiday. It's right after Cyclone Yasi hit the area. A lot of beaches were destroyed but I still liked Townsville and Magnetic Island a lot. Here are a few photos to wet your appetite.

Language and air safety

2011-12-02T10:32:00.002+11:00

A Chinese airline has pledged to improve its crews' English skills after one of its flights took off from a Japanese airport without authorisation.

China Eastern Airlines did not say what caused the error, but pledged yesterday to "further improve the English communication skills of our flight crews to assure flight safety," suggesting it may have been a misunderstanding.

The latest incident comes after the privately-owned Chinese airline Juneyao said in August one of its pilots had refused to give up his landing slot to a passenger plane that issued a distress call to say it was running out of fuel.

Read more from Sydney Morning Herald.

Any solution? What do you think?

Interpreter's standard questioned

2011-11-30T07:38:00.006+11:00

A DISPUTE about the alleged mistranslation of the Indonesian word ''push'' has cost taxpayers tens of thousands of dollars after it caused a criminal trial to be aborted.

The suspected mistake occurred as an accused Indonesian people smuggler gave evidence in his trial at the District Court last month.

The perceived problems were raised by a juror who speaks Indonesian and wrote a note to the judge alerting him to ''some discrepancies in the translation'' of the questions put to the accused. The problem - which the now retired District Court Judge David Freeman said he had not encountered in 31 years on the bench - led to the discharge of the jury on the 10th day of the trial, which will now have to be run again next year.

In a second note, the juror gave two examples; in one the words ''did you stop anyone moving'' were allegedly translated as ''did you push anyone'', in the other the interpreter allegedly translated the word ''deny'' as ''push''.

Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald. Read more by pressing here.

What do you think of the standard of interpretation and translation in Australia?

Nissan Facebook Competition Causes Fury

2011-11-28T08:31:00.004+11:00

Nissan Australia is embroiled in a social media storm after it awarded a free $20,000 car and $1250 voucher to personal friends of a staffer managing its Facebook competition.

A marketing source said it was unfortunate that the competition result looked dodgy because Nissan's system was far more objective than other competitions, which for example ask entrants to write 25 words or less on why they should win.

In those competitions judges must subjectively decide the winner by committee whereas here the source said it was done by a computer algorithm based on who engaged most actively with the competition.

Social media consultant Laurel Papworth said the issue for Nissan most likely arose because the ad agency staffers working on the campaign would have advertised it first on their own social networks. It was then highly likely that friends would enter.

Excerpt from Sydney Morning Herald. Press the link to read more.

But why would the ad agency do so? Shouldn't they be putting advertisements out in Facebook to draw participants, instead of asking staff to advertise it on their own social networks?

Congratulations to Merrylands RSL Club

2011-11-25T08:13:00.000+11:00

We would like to congratulate our client Merrylands RSL Club for winning the 2011 NSW Brand Revitalisation Award by Australian Marketing Institute's Awards for Marketing Excellence.

Merrylands RSL Club implemented six key research recommendations from MMM and achieved exponential growth in food, beverage, membership and revenue in the last year.

Tourism Accreditation

2011-11-23T08:09:00.001+11:00

We're pleased to have successfully gained Tourism Accreditation of the Australian Tourism Accreditation Program (ATAP).

Our new accreditation status verifies that Multicultural Marketing and Management is committed to providing high quality products, service and experience to our customers and industry.

You can read more about the ATAP by pressing here.

Multicultural Marketing Awards

2011-11-21T11:08:00.000+11:00

This year's national multicultural marketing awards will be announced next week on 29 November. We've two clients entering this year. Let's keep our fingers crossed.

The awards aim to:
highlight the responsibility of public sector managers to cater to the needs of the whole community and to fully inform all people about their services and activities.
promote the advantages for commercial managers of marketing their product or service to every potential client or customer.
stimulate creativity in marketing to a culturally diverse society.
recognise work of a high marketing standard so as to inspire marketers who are not yet meeting the challenges of a culturally diverse society and do not enjoy the benefits of this market.
promote a more equitable representation of our diversity as a nation through mass media marketing channels.

Press here to read more about the awards and past winners.

只在 Mr Vitamins 商店出售

2011-11-11T08:10:00.000+11:00

Nature Clinic ™ 商店价格高达50％的折扣

Mr Vitamins 에서만 만나볼 수 있습니다.

2011-11-10T08:07:00.003+11:00

Nature Clinic™가 권장 소비자가 보다 최고 50퍼센트 싼가격으로 찾아갑니다.

Asian languages and Australia's economy

2011-11-08T17:30:00.000+11:00

Sydney Morning Herald has an interesting article today about language education in Australia. Hugh White, a professor from ANU, argued that it's better for Australia's economy to send young people to learn Asian languages in the source countries.

That is a lot of money, but $375 million is less than 5 per cent of the $8 billion a year that Australia's rapidly growing overseas aid budget is planned to reach over the next decade. This is where the money should be found. We need to ask whether our future in Asia might be better secured by spending a bit less on teaching our neighbours how to do things, and a bit more on learning about them.

Press here to read more. What's your opinion on this?

Paid interviews with leukemia patients

2011-10-21T13:16:00.001+11:00

Our client requires 8 chronic myeloid leukemia patients to participate in half-an-hour one-on-one interview. You must be over 55 years old.

Their interviewers can go to a location near you (in Sydney). You must speak reasonably good English to complete the interview.

The client pays $90 for the 30 minute interview, to be conducted in an agreed time (from 27 October to 1 November)

Please ring or email us with the preferred time. We are an established market research company, set up since 1993. We comply with Australian Market and Social Research Society's privacy rules and code of ethics.

Taut discount at GNC Brisbane

2011-10-06T07:32:00.000+11:00

Print, cut it out and bring to stores listed above in Brisbane. Happy shopping!

Best selling Chinese Travel Books

2011-10-03T08:37:00.000+11:00

Woohoot! Chopsticks Culture, your photo guide to exploring Chinese cuisin, Kindle version has climbed up to No.28 best-seller multicultural education and No. 38 best-seller in Chinese travel last week. Thank you again, for the American readers.

Taut discount at GNC Victoria

2011-10-01T08:36:00.000+10:00

Here is the discount coupon for GNC Victoria. Happy shopping!

Vietnamese, Korean and Spanish speakers required for a paid research

2011-09-29T12:38:00.001+10:00

18-40 year-old Vietnamese, Korean and Spanish speaking people required for a paid research

We need the following people for a face-to-face research about smoking for a government department.

-    22 Vietnamese speaking people
-    13 Korean speaking people
-    10 Spanish speaking people
-    You must be either a smoker (smoke on weekly basis) or a recent quitter (smoked on weekly basis but quitted within the last 12 months)
-    You must be in Australia for the past six months
-    The interview is around 20 minutes. It will be conducted in English in Parramatta, Sydney at an agreed time from 5 October to 11 October.
-    We pay $50 supermarket voucher per person as an incentive
-    To register, please email info(at)multiculture.com.au or phone 02-9687-6788 with the following information:

your name
language you speak at home
day time contact number
have you been in Australia for the last six months?
your age
gender
how often you smoke/smoked
if you are recent quitter, when did you quit
what brand do/did you smoke
which day do you prefer the interview be

Taut available in GNC Livewell stores

2011-09-27T11:48:00.002+10:00

Later on in the week, I will post the discount coupon for Brisbane and Melbourne GNC stores. For more information, visit taut.com.au

RUOK? Day founder Gavin Larkin dies

2011-09-23T07:59:00.010+10:00

I've known Gavin briefly when I worked on the NSW Lotteries multicultural marketing account. Gavin was working at John Singleton Advertising then. He was always helpful and with brilliant ideas. I'm saddened to learn of his death on Thursday, after a long battle with cancer.

RUOK? Day is a wonderful way to remind people to take time to talk to others.

Gavin, your legacy is benefiting many people. My prayers to his wife and children.

Nominations Open for New People of Australia Ambassadors

2011-09-21T07:48:00.000+10:00

Do you know anyone worthy of nomination?

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Australians can now nominate their own local champions who have helped to promote inclusion and strengthen community relations under a new ambassador program set up by the Gillard Labor Government.

The People of Australia Ambassador program will see up to 40 local champions selected from nominations submitted by the public across the country.

The ambassador program is a key initiative of the Gillard Government's new multicultural policy -The People of Australia - announced earlier this year.

People of Australia Ambassadors will champion inclusion and provide advice to the new Australian Multicultural Council and to the Government about effective initiatives which promote belonging and leverage diversity in our communities.

Prime Minster Julia Gillard today encouraged Australians to nominate outstanding individuals from their neighbourhoods who have encouraged participation in their community.

Ambassadors will be appointed for a 12-month period and have key roles in annual community events and celebrations including Harmony Day on 21 March.

Communities and individuals can nominate a representative who has contributed to promoting the benefits of social cohesion and diversity, or has played a pivotal role in building strong community relations in Australia.

Nominations for the Ambassador roles need to be submitted before 7 October.

All nominations will be considered by the Australian Multicultural Council.

For more information on the program and nomination process.
See: www.amc.gov.au

Source: Joint media release with Julia Gillard - Prime Minister of Australia and Kate Lundy - Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister and Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration and Multicultural Affairs.

Small business superannuation clearing house

2011-09-19T15:46:00.000+10:00

Our Office Manager receives a letter today from the Department of Human Services and Australian Taxation Office, informing us of the Small Business Superannuation Clearing House.

It allows small business to make one electronic payment to cover all the superannuation contributions.

Less hassle!

I hope all the small ethnic businesses will take advantage of it. For more information, please press here.

Don't forget to spread the word by pressing one of the social media buttons below.

Thank you, Germany and USA!

2011-09-16T08:30:00.000+10:00

Our phone app, Chopsticks Culture, is available in Amazon as well.

The handy photo guide to exploring Chinese cuisine has reached No.4 best selling China travel book in Amazon Germany last week, right behind Lonely Planet's Hong Kong and Macau Guide.

In Amazon USA, it's reached No.62 best selling multicultural education book and No.74 best selling China travel book.

Thank you, Germany and USA!

Chopsticks Culture available in Kindle

2011-09-14T08:42:00.003+10:00

Our iPhone, iPad and iTouch app Chopsticks Culture is also available in Kindle. Below is the description:

Chopsticks culture: Your Photo Guide to exploring Chinese cuisine, is a complementary guide to the smart phone app of the same name. It can be used alone.

The app is a cool flashy and boisterous program that will remind you of a trip to Chinatown. What’s its primary use? Challenge your friends in a game and see who can match a mouth-watering Chinese dish with its name in English Chinese and phonetics.

If that’s too simple for your taste or your liking try the app’s main use: master the way of ordering Chinese dishes in Cantonese or Mandarin with the help of our adorable Madam Chu and cool Master Zhao.

Or you can simply abandon the educational aspect and let the app show the waiter what you want to order.

In this maiden creation by our multi-award winning cultural team we promise you authentic Chinese food only. The app will help you stay away from coffee and hot dog for they are not listed!

In developer's lingo the app has around 100 photos of Chinese food corresponding English simplified and traditional Chinese names phonetics and sound files. The game includes three levels and a top scoreboard.

In this Kindle version, the sound and game modules are not available. But it’s still a great handy photo guide for learning to order Chinese food or show to the waiters what you want to eat.

The book is arranged in this order:
1. Photo of dish
2. English name
3. Name of the dish in traditional Chinese and Cantonese phonetics
4. Name of the dish in simplified Chinese and Mandarin phonetics

For the smart app, please visit us at http://culturaloz.blogspot.com and press the phone apps tab.

To buy the Kindle version, please press the link on the right hand panel of the blog.

Happy learning and eating!

It's a French Mouse

2011-09-12T07:33:00.003+10:00

Last Friday, I presented "It's a French Mouse - Tips about Multicultural Research" at the AMSRS Conference in Hilton Hotel.

Here are some tweets I found. Thank you!

Open letter to NAATI

2011-09-09T08:48:00.017+10:00

A letter by a translator to NAATI. She contacted NAATI three times in the past year and she still hasn't received any reply. What do you suggest her to do?

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I am writing to express my serious concerns with the operation of the ‘Professional Translation Services’ market in Australia and to suggest possible ways those concerns might be addressed.

Over recent months I have become aware that some translation service providers appear to consider translation services as a ‘commodity’ item that can be tendered for at drastically discounted prices.

One typical example is a recent tender for a Commonwealth Government Department. In this instance, the successful tenderer submitted its bid that provided for:

1.    NAATI-accredited translating,
2.    Final document layout (in InDesign format) and
3.    NAATI-accredited, independent checking

at a rate of $0.17 per word for performing the three listed tasks together.

I note that when I obtained my NAATI accreditation 13 years ago, the industry recommended rate for translation was $0.25 per word (for carrying out the first task alone).

Obviously, the question must arise as to how the tenderer can satisfy the terms of the contract without:

Under-paying the NAATI-accredited translators and checkers involved with the project or paying them an unfair fee
Under-delivering the committed services and/or
Using non-NAATI-accredited translators and checkers

While there may be business reason why this successful tenderer might submit a price that is substantially below what might be considered to be ‘standard’, I feel that this situation exhibits a phenomenon that appears to occur far too regularly.

NAATI has members from Commonwealth, State and Territory governments on its board and is the only national accreditation authority in Australia. It aims to:

-    Set, maintain and promote high national standards in translating and interpreting, and
-    Implement a national quality-assurance system for credentialing practitioners who meet those standards.

As a possible solution for this problem, I suggest that NAATI recommends a benchmark salary for translators and interpreters for use by Commonwealth Government departments. NAATI could advise Commonwealth Government department procurement officers of that benchmark industry rate and suggests how they might ensure that NAATI-accredited translators are not paid below that rate.

I have not been able to find any Commonwealth Government recommended translation rate. However, the South Australian Government Wages Parity (Salaried) Enterprise Agreement 2010 states:

-    Civil servant who are NAATI-accredited translators and undertake translation for the government are to be paid $0.28 per word for documents more than 100 words
-    A rate of $0.13 per word for independent checking
-    Typesetting is to be paid at $23.90 per hour (not sure if the skill of InDesign is required)

I look forward to NAATI taking the leadership to ensure translators are paid fairly and treated appropriately by government translation service buyers. (The letter is adapted slightly for confidential reason)

Why do I need to conduct research in community languages?

2011-09-06T15:40:00.001+10:00

I'll be presenting "It's a French mouse - Tips for successful multicultural research" at the AMSRS conference at Sydney Hilton Hotel this Friday (9 Sept).

In the past two weeks, I've been calling some mainstream research agencies, hoping to meet up with them at the conference. While many of the research companies are very keen to learn about multicultural research, some are quite lukewarm.

One lady told me today their agency is helping financial companies to conduct research and she is only interested in interviewees in Australia who can articulate in English well.

If you look at the Census statistics, for example, among the China-born Australian, nearly 35% of them do not speak English well or not at all. And yet, Chinese Australian are among the most wealthy because many of them are business owners or engaged in trading with China.

For Korean-born Australian, 37% of them do not speak English well or not at all. Korean Australian is among the fastest growing migrant groups and many of them came to Australia on business visa.

Why would you ignore one out of three of your target audience when you conduct research?

TIO info in Karen

2011-08-31T08:30:00.000+10:00

Game on with our Chopstick Culture iPhone and iPad app!

2011-08-28T08:23:00.007+10:00

We're proud to announce our first ever phone app! Below is the detail. It's available in iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch at iTunes store.

Chopsticks culture is a cool, flashy and boisterous app that will remind you of a trip to Chinatown. What’s its primary use? Challenge your friends in a game and see who can match a mouth-watering Chinese dish with its name in English, Chinese and phonetics.

If that’s too simple for your taste or your liking, try the app’s main use: master the way of ordering Chinese dishes in Cantonese or Mandarin, with the help of our adorable Madam Chu and cool Master Zhao.

Or you can simply abandon the educational aspect and let the app show/tell the waiter what you want to order. No internet connection is required. The app works anywhere, in your home or on the Great Wall of China.

In this maiden creation by our multi-award winning cultural team, we promise you authentic Chinese food only. The app will help you stay away from coffee and hotdog, for they are not listed!

In developer's lingo, the app has around 100 photos of Chinese food, corresponding English, simplified and traditional Chinese names, phonetics and sound files. The game includes three levels and a top scoreboard.

It's available at iTunes store now.

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2011-08-26T08:29:00.000+10:00

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2011-08-24T08:33:00.004+10:00

TIO info in Dari

2011-08-22T08:31:00.001+10:00

Get paid to do research

2011-08-20T19:36:00.000+10:00

Multicultural Marketing and Management (MMM) conducts mainly multilingual research for clients and is interested to recruit people who speak a language other than English at home. We also conduct research projects in English so we are looking for English speakers too.

You can earn good money by participating in our research projects! We pay you via Paypal for every research project that you contribute to. The amount you will earn will vary by project. It will be displayed when we approach you for each project.

Please register by completing the few simple questions at www.multiculture.com.au and press Opportunities on the left and we will contact you when we have a suitable research project. Your details will be kept confidential.

MMM is a member of the Australian Market and Social Research Society and observes its code of professional conduct.

Register, have your opinion heard and earn some nice cash! Thank you.

Tell your friends to register too.

Two cultural workshops to ensure your success!

2011-08-17T14:31:00.011+10:00

Did you know that:

1 in 4 Australian residents, 30% of business proprietors in Australia and around 2 millions of overseas visitors to Australia come from non-English speaking backgrounds.
33% of Sydney and Melbourne residents speak a language other than English at home.
This translates into around 8 million people in the non-English speaking market in Australia.

It is clear that communicating successfully to non-English speaking communities represent a significant strategy for any business and government body! We offer you two of our popular cultural workshops:

1. Cultural Harmony in the Workplace (Wednesday 7 September 2011)

Are you operating in a workplace that includes people from different ethnic backgrounds? Do you find it difficult to keep it in harmony?

Our dynamic half-day cross-cultural workshop will enhance your communication skills and help you work with your multicultural colleagues and clients effectively.

Cultural Harmony in the Workplace will cover:

Working with colleagues and clients from different cultural backgrounds
How to motivate team members with consideration of their cultural backgrounds
Strategies to overcome barriers to communication among the multicultural workforces

Who should attend: Employees in multicultural workplace, frontline staff and managers

2. Successful Multicultural Research (Wednesday 31 August 2011)

Do you manage multicultural market or social research? Do you find it difficult to achieve successful outcomes when working with ethnic audience?

Our dynamic half-day cross-cultural workshop will enhance your understanding of organising multicultural research and help you manage your multicultural stakeholders and contractors effectively.

Successful Multicultural Research workshop will cover:

Target audience
Culturally sensitive research instruments
Multilingual target audience and fieldworkers
Reporting with a multicultural perspective
Budgeting

Who should attend: Small business owners who want to conduct research to help grow their business, research managers in government, commercial and voluntary organisations.

Testimonial for MMM workshops

"I found Multicultural Marketing and Management's workshop very useful. I gained a lot of knowledge that will lead to better business relationships. The presenter's knowledge was very thorough." - Jimmy Minassian, Coca-Cola Amatil

"The workshop opened my eyes to wide range of options. It was very useful and the presenter's knowledge was wide ranging" - Peter Austen, Jenolan Caves Trust

Time: 11 am – 2.30 pm
Venue: Rhodes Phoenix Chinese Restaurant, Level 5, Rhodes Shopping Centre, Rhodes, NSW
Cost: $198 per person per workshop

All prices are inclusive of GST, a light lunch, handout and certificate.

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Telecommunications Industry Ombudsman - Dinka

2011-08-16T08:27:00.003+10:00

Burmese info

2011-08-14T08:25:00.004+10:00

Amharic info

2011-08-12T08:24:00.002+10:00

Serbian info

2011-08-10T22:22:00.002+10:00

TIO - Nepalese

2011-07-29T07:50:00.000+10:00

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2011-07-27T07:48:00.003+10:00

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