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The 2026 Greater Bay Area Semiconductor Expo Opens in Shenzhen Today: with Exhibitors from 22 Countries, Exports Mean More than Just Chips
The 2026 Greater Bay Area Semiconductor Industry Ecosystem Expo (Semicon Greater Bay) opens in Shenzhen today, running 1...
The 140th Canton Fair Opens on Thursday: Behind 210,000 Buyers, the Language Business Is Shifting Gear
The 140th Canton Fair opens in Guangzhou on 15 October through 4 November, marking the fair’s 70th anniversary. Of 32,00...
From 30 Minutes to Five: the Rebuilt Huanggang Port Opens This Morning, and Shenzhen-Hong Kong Integration Takes Another Big Step
At 6:30 a.m. on 12 October the rebuilt Huanggang Port in Shenzhen officially opened, with co-located clearance and a sin...
45 Days to Black Friday: Customs Reform, Peak Logistics and the Sellers’ Multilingual Paperwork Wall All Land at Once
Black Friday 2026 falls on 27 November, 45 days away. Mandatory EU product identifiers and the €3-per-item duty apply fr...
The Pause Button on Green Cards: Microsoft Loses Labour Certification, Nine Top Universities Face Probes, and Visa Documents Cannot Be Improvised
On 8 October the US government suspended permanent labour certification for Microsoft, Adobe, Cognizant and Infosys — th...
The World Gathers Under One Mediterranean Sky: IAC 2026 Opens in Antalya, and Language Services Are the Quiet Infrastructure of Space Cooperation
The 77th International Astronautical Congress opened in Antalya, Türkiye on 5 October, with 5,000–10,000 participants an...
IceCube Wins the Nobel Prize: Behind a Cubic Kilometre of Antarctic Ice, a 12-nation Collaboration Runs on Language
The 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics goes to Francis Halzen for the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, an instrument of 86 strings...
Four Weeks to 1 November: Mandatory Product Identifiers in the EU and the Turning Point for Low-value Parcels
From 1 November, customs declarations for low-value goods imported into the EU must carry a product identifier; the €3-p...
Nagoya Asian Games Close: the Language Service Behind 40,000 Volunteers, and a Wake-up Call for the Translation Industry
The Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games closed on 4 October, China taking 169 gold medals. Language support was a distinct voluntee...
Post-editing Machine Translation: A Practical Guide for Professional Teams
MTPE is now a standard part of the language mix. How professional teams decide when machine translation fits, define qua...