Earthquake in China: assistance from chinaONEcall

Following the recent earthquake in Wenchuan County, Sichuan Province, chinaONEcall is offering free help for victims of the Chinese earthquake, and for anxious family or others needing to contact them or the victims doctors / nurses in the affected area.

Just telephone the service direct within China to 4006 88 66 99 or from overseas to +86 871 805 8503 , quoting “earthquake crisis” and the chinaONEcall team will do their best to help.  They operate a 24/7 interpreter service for travellers ( business or leisure )  and are making available their 15 strong team  to give interpreter support to those on this present crisis.

Please note we will do our best to help, but cannot locate victims, doctors etc as this will be done by the relevant governmental and aid agencies.

chinaONEcall on Fox Business Network

Michael Sinclair recently appeared on the Fox Business Channel talking about chinaONEcall.

Speech to Business Referral Exchange

Michael Sinclair (Marketing Director of China One Call Ltd) was recently asked at short notice to give a speech on ‘Doing Business in China’ to the Business Referral Exchange (BRX) at a breakfast meeting at HSBC, Fleet Street, London.

To see the full text of the speech please click here.

Financial Times article about Language Services

After the lengthy description of an alternative service there is a interesting anecdote given by Michael Sinclair in this Financial Times article about Language Services.

I think the key distinction may be that chinaONEcall’s local knowledge and affordability makes it something to use regularly throughout a trip to China and not only for emergencies. Infact Michael describes how the service can be used spontaneously to create new and exciting opportunities.

Michael Sinclair, marketing director of chinaONEcall says: “A customer of ours was on holiday in a Chinese village full of jewellery shops and thought some of the products would be of interest to a friend who ran a jewellery business. He called us and arranged to have samples sent over. Now the friend is importing from the business.”

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Corporate Travel & Technology World

chinaONEcall will be at the Corporate Travel & Technology World at Shanghai’s Regent Hotel on 8th-9th April. Come and visit us at Booth #12 for a free trial.

Lord Digby Jones endorses chinaONEcall

Digby, Lord Jones of Birmingham, British Minister of State for Trade and Investment and former Director General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) wrote to Michael Sinclair (Marketing Director of China One Call Ltd.) on 27th February, following the UK-China Business Summit in Beijing. He writes “Your product looks useful and innovative for business people in the market, and I wish you every success going forward.”

chinaONEcall mentioned in ModernAgent Travel Pulse

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chinaONEcall UK Launch Party

Well, chinaONEcall – the interpreter in your pocket - launched on 16^th October at the very swish and snazzy No 5 in Cavendish Square and what a turn out! There must have been nearly 100 Guests including leading names from large corporates. Guests we talked to were from HSBC, Lloyds TSB, and many more. The room was absolutely buzzing!

Dr Eugene Chang from the China Britain Business Council and Yu Jing, press representative from the Chinese Embassy welcomed the guests and gave chinaONEcall their seal of approval.

Yu Jing expressed sincere congratulations to chinaONEcall on such a useful idea, and felt it provided a bridge between the 2 countries promoting better understanding and friendship between the people of China and the UK.

Dr Chang who opened the proceedings reflected on the fact that there may shortly be almost as many English language speakers in China as there are in the entire English-speaking world – but that doesn’t mean anyone can get by in doing business or travelling by just speaking English. CBBC members would surely be one of the first subscribers to chinaONEcall as China has one of the largest mobile phone networks in the world, with over 200,000 new mobile accounts opened every day - which is pretty awesome!

Michael Sinclair, Managing Director of chinaONEcall spoke of his personal experiences that inspired him to come up with the idea for the innovative service and said that he felt the full house at the launch was a reflection already of the value chinaONEcall can add to travel in China.

After watching a short film of the call centre in China in action, we dined lavishly from copious trays of beautifully crafted morsels based on a far east or oriental theme – miniature spring rolls, sushi, vast amounts of tempura prawns, thai green curry cornets – the food just kept coming. There was also Tsing Tao to wash it down as the guests merrily networked in to the night.

At the end of the evening the chinaONEcall team were found hunched in a corner with several bottles of self congratulatory Tsing Tao and more food! They deserved it – it had been a triumphant evening!

Hackney - China Trade growing

Another article from the Hackney Business Today blog with some interesting stories about trade between the London Borough of Hackney and China. chinaONEcall is mentioned again as one of its director’s, Michael Sinclair, is also chair of the Stoke Newington Business Association.

chinaONEcall is the Observer Escape’s pick of the week

chinaONEcall is the first of the Observer Escape’s Picks of the Week this week.

Other picks include the 2007 Wine Show at Islington’s Business Design Centre, 5 star holiday lodges in Cornwall and 70 new routes on Ryanair.