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		<title>Sharn Hi Juan Ing Knee: language training for World Expo</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ain’t it exciting? The World Expo is finally here. You bet China, especially Shanghai, has been spending huge money and human or non-human resource preparing for this. For those who had been to the Beijing Olympics back in 08, maybe you still remember the warm feeling of being cared about by countless volunteers. Apparently Shanghai [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foursquare clone spotted, and it&#8217;s more than that</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interestingly, a couple of days after I stumbled upon the media report on Foursquare and came up with a paranoid conspiracy theory, I did find the first Chinese clone of Foursquare… No, I’m not promoting myself as sort of oracle or fortune teller. From the look of it, it’s been there for some time, not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Business Wars: Attack of the Clones</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This post is about internet, business, and China. Not how to do internet business here, but rather discussing how to ready yourself if you happen to own an internet business, and may someday want to try your luck in the Orient. It’s going to be lengthy, and mostly I will spin the whole thing around [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beijing Swarm! A Foursquare Day Success</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Foursquare Day 2010 Beijing Swarm Badge, originally uploaded by Illuminant Partners. Social media enthusiasts gathered at the Apple Store in Sanlitun Village on April 16 with the common goal of unlocking Foursquare&#8217;s coveted Swarm badge. A small group soon grew to more than 50 people, all of whom had a mobile device in their hands. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminantpartners.com/blog/index.php/2010/04/20/beijing-swarm-a-foursquare-day-success/</link>
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		<title>Foursquare Day 2010 badge is live!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is our CEO the first Foursquare user in Beijing to get the special Foursquare Day badge?]]></description>
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		<title>An idea that rocks: Foursquare Day comes to Beijing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Beijing was one of the first of major cities to lead and implement the recent idea to globally celebrate“Foursquare Day” on April 16th, and our team at Illuminant is super excited to champion the event in China’s capital. Our chief executive, Simon Cousins, has been a key driver on the global Foursquare Day organizing team [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Congratulations to the ACBA09 winners!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[ACBA09 flyer, originally uploaded by Illuminant Partners.  Illuminant&#8217;s Chief Executive Simon Cousins and Director Catherine Davis are pictured front-and-centre. The 17th Annual AustCham Australia-China Business Awards were held in Beijing for the first time on Thursday 3 December 2009. Illuminant was the fortunate winner of the ACBA08 award for entrepreneurial excellence. We want to congratulate [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminantpartners.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/12/congratulations-to-the-acba09-winners/</link>
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		<title>Brand Identity: sometimes you speak in sense but they listen in gibberish</title>
		<description><![CDATA[An introductory note from the author:  Firstly, ladies and gentlemen, it should be made clear that everything in this post is discussed within the scope of the Chinese marketplace, and that the opinions expressed herein are mine personally. Brand is an interesting thing. Brand is many things, including the personification of a product or service. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminantpartners.com/blog/index.php/2010/02/10/brand-identity-sometimes-you-speak-in-sense-but-they-listen-in-gibberish/</link>
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		<title>Illuminant supports the successful Sino-Austrian Economic Forum 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sino-Austrian Economic Forum 2010 (1), originally uploaded by Illuminant Partners. Sino-Austrian Economic Forum was held in Beijing on 20 January 2010. Illuminant Partners was proud to be engaged by the Austrian government to support and photograph the proceedings.]]></description>
		<link>http://illuminantpartners.com/blog/index.php/2010/01/20/illuminant-supports-the-successful-sino-austrian-economic-forum-2010/</link>
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		<title>Illuminant&#8217;s approach to Chinese-English translation (我们如何在朔光进行翻译工作)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Translation Center, originally uploaded by Illuminant Partners. As we all know, language is, in most cases, far more than just a number of symbols and expressions. Instead, language is a reflection of a nation’s civilization, its unique thinking and behavior patterns and its geographic location as well. 我们都知道，在大多数情况下，语言不仅仅是一系列象征和表现形式。相反，语言能够反映一个国家的文明程度、独特的思维与行为模式以及地理位置。 As a result, translators must do more [...]]]></description>
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