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I am Genevieve Cheung, originally from Hong Kong. After completing secondary studies, I moved to Australia where I completed a degree in Bachelor of Business Management at the VUT in Melbourne. After graduation I moved to Italy where I have been living for more than twenty years.
My vast cultural background and extensive linguistic knowledge (speak and write fluent English, Mandarin/Cantonese Chinese and Italian), allow me to join our company- SKY IN COMPANY (HK/ITALY). We provide main services such as web-site translations from Italian/ English to Chinese/English, and SEO services for the Chinese search engine "Baidu".
Our offices, based in Hong Kong and Italy, have a young and dynamic team with collaborators around the world.

Sono Genevieve Cheung, originaria di Hong Kong; dopo aver completato gli studi secondari, mi sono trasferita in Australia, dove ho conseguito una Laurea in Bachelor of Business Management presso la VUT di Melbourne. Dopo la Laurea mi sono trasferita in Italia, dove vivo ormai da più di venti anni.
Il mio background culturale e la vasta conoscenza linguistica (parlo e scrivo correntemente l’inglese, il cinese mandarino e l’italiano), mi consentono di partecipare in quest’attività di traduzione in Italiano/English/Cinese.
La principale attività della nostra ditta – SKY IN COMPANY (HK), consiste nella traduzione in lingua cinese di siti web italiani, nonché di servizi di tipo SEO rivolti al motore di ricerca cinese “Baidu”. La nostra ditta principale, con base in Hong Kong, dispone di un team giovane e dinamico con collaboratori in tutto il mondo.

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• China to ban foreign companies from online media business

  By Sky In Company on March 11, 2016 • ( 1 )

  

  The ruling Chinese Communist Party has announced new regulations that will ban foreign companies from publishing online media, games and other “creative” content within China’s borders from next month. The “Regulations for the management of online publishing services” also ban… Read More ›

• The truth behind China’s exchange rate delusion

  By Sky In Company on February 24, 2016 • ( 0 )

  

  The current bout of anxiety is a symptom of the fact that China’s transition from an export-led growth strategy is proceeding far less smoothly than hoped China’s management of its exchange rate peg continues to rattle global financial markets. Uncertainty… Read More ›

• Understanding the two Chinas

  By Sky In Company on December 2, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Our view that China may be heading for a mild cyclical upswing next year needs to be set against the background of the broader economy, which is changing rapidly. We think that it makes sense to view the economy as… Read More ›

• Can China’s consumers save the world economy?

  By Sky In Company on November 18, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Long the place that makes stuff and doesn’t consume much, China is set to redress the balance. And thus, some say, rescue the troubled global economy. But it’s a stretch to think that Beijing’s plan — shifting the export-driven country… Read More ›

• The one thing holding back China’s yuan

  By Sky In Company on November 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  While China may be the world’s second largest economy, the future of the yuan playing a bigger role in international markets is clouded by politics. Earlier this fall, the IMF postponed a scheduled update of the designated basket of reserve… Read More ›

• China’s economy is worse than you think

  By Sky In Company on November 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The unreliability of Chinese official economic data has become almost a cliche. A few years before he became China’s premier, Li Keqiang said that the country’s numbers were “man-made” and “for reference only.” If the top economic policy maker of a… Read More ›

• Great Firewall rising: How China wages its war on the Internet

  By Sky In Company on November 8, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In April, the police came for Li Gang. It was a visit he had been dreading for almost six months, since he began working on a tool to help Chinese Internet users get around the vast censorship apparatus known as… Read More ›

• What could really disrupt China’s economy?

  By Sky In Company on November 6, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  In an earlier post, I explained why I’m still bullish on China’s economy. But as the events of the past few months have shown, the risks of economic disruption are real. Here are several potential risks that could throw China’s… Read More ›

• Apple disables news in China rather than censor service

  By Sky In Company on November 4, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Apple appears to be censoring content already downloaded to customers’ phones when those customers visit mainland China. Rather than complying with the country’s draconian censorship rules by censoring certain content, the company disables the app altogether when it detects that… Read More ›

• A massive Chinese industry is flashing warning signs that the world cannot ignore

  By Sky In Company on October 30, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  China’s steel industry, the world’s biggest, is in crisis. The disaster is the result of a combination of factors, including a slowing Chinese economy, falling commodity prices, and an industry loaded with debt. Earlier this month, state-owned enterprise (SOE) Sinosteel… Read More ›

• 10 things the Communist Party wants you to believe about China’s next five-year plan

  By Sky In Company on October 28, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  The Chinese newspaper that serves as the ruling Communist Party’s mouthpiece has outlined 10 objectives that are expected to lead to breakthroughs on the mainland in the next five years. The targets were revealed on thePeople’s Daily’s Weibo account as… Read More ›

• Western companies are being forced to figure China out all over again as sales plummet

  By Sky In Company on June 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Foreign companies have long known that China’s economic slowdown—now upon us—could hit their earnings hard. They just didn’t expect they’d be hit by changing consumer buying habits and a rise in Chinese competitors at the same time. Suddenly, foreign brands… Read More ›

• Chinese army newspaper calls for military role in Internet culture war

  By Sky In Company on June 20, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  An article published in the People’s Liberation Army Daily, the official newspaper of China’s military—and reprinted in part by Qiushi, the official magazine of the Chinese Communist Party—calls the Internet “the ideological ‘main front’ and ‘the main battlefield’” upon which… Read More ›

• China to invest $193 billion on Internet networks, but will tightening controls harm creativity and scare investors away?

  By Sky In Company on June 18, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  China’s Internet is a place of often confusing extremes. On the one hand, this week the government announced an investment of nearly $200 billion to boost Internet connection speed with fast optical broadband in major cities and 4G networks in… Read More ›

• “Made in China” really doesn’t mean what it used to

  By Sky In Company on June 16, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Among shoppers in the West, the notion persists that “Made in China” indicates—to put it bluntly—junk. Many still prize labels boasting a product was made in, say, Italy—even if a growing number of Italian products come from factories that are… Read More ›

• 3 helpful tips for dealing with vexing Chinese negotiating tactics

  By Sky In Company on June 13, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  As a film producer and consultant who works extensively in China, I am often confronted with the vexing challenge of making deals with savvy Chinese negotiators. I have found the advice offered by Steven Dickinson, an attorney with the Seattle-based… Read More ›

• China’s new silk road could change global economics forever

  By Sky In Company on June 11, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  Beginning with the marvellous tales of Marco Polo’s travels across Eurasia to China, the Silk Road has never ceased to entrance the world. Now, the ancient cities of Samarkand, Baku, Tashkent, and Bukhara are once again firing the world’s imagination…. Read More ›

• China’s one-child policy breeds ‘little emperors with skewed values’, writer Xinran Xue says

  By Sky In Company on June 9, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  One of China’s most influential expat writers says the country’s one-child policy has had alarming unforeseen consequences and produced a generation of “little emperors” whose values are dangerously skewed. British-based writer Xinran Xue interviewed some of the 150 million single… Read More ›

• Outdated mindset is blocking China’s new ideas, say analysts

  By Sky In Company on June 7, 2015 • ( 2 )

  

  A leading mainland Chinese inventor-entrepreneur says he may not have surrendered his professorship at an elite university if government policy at the time had allowed him to set up his company while still staying in his post. “If there had been… Read More ›

• Xi Jinping’s China is the greatest political experiment on Earth

  By Sky In Company on June 5, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  Can Xi do it? This is the biggest political question in the world today. “Yes, Xi can,” some tell me in Beijing. “No, he can’t,” say others. The wise know that nobody knows. There is a great debate going on… Read More ›

• Why western companies fail in China

  By Sky In Company on June 3, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Many western companies try to expand their business to China’s nearly 700 million internet users. Some companies succeed and get tremendously rewarded, but many more fail. I previously wrote an article about what, as I see it, Chinese startups should… Read More ›

• This is how China is trying to save its economy

  By Sky In Company on May 14, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  China has had 35 years of hypergrowth, but now it’s over. It’s going to have to settle for really, really good growth instead. But that’s still going to be hard now that fewer Chinese are working-age, fewer people are moving… Read More ›

• China teaches its 100 million tourists some travel etiquette

  By Sky In Company on May 5, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  This year may go down in history as the moment when the global balance of economic power shifted dramatically towards China, after Beijing humiliated Washington over the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank. But let’s face it, tectonic shifts in the global… Read More ›

• What it means to be Chinese – nationalism and identity in Xi’s China

  By Sky In Company on May 4, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  What does it mean to be Chinese? A strong tradition in premodern China held that it meant thinking, behaving, and living in a society in accord with heaven-sanctioned principles exemplifying the best way to be human. Other peoples could learn… Read More ›

• Putting China’s debt into perspective

  By Sky In Company on May 3, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  China’s total debt quadrupled between 2007 and 2014, which was about one-third of the $57 trillion in debt added globally during that period. Can this possibly be safe? To answer this question, the McKinsey Global Institute devotes an entire chapter… Read More ›

• Where do we draw the line on balancing China?

  By Sky In Company on May 2, 2015 • ( 9 )

  

  Is it time for the United States to get serious about balancing China? According to Robert Blackwill and Ashley Tellis, the answer is an emphatic yes. In a new Council on Foreign Relations report, they portray China as steadily seeking… Read More ›

• This chart explains everything you need to know about Chinese Internet censorship

  By Sky In Company on May 1, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  What goes through a Chinese web user’s head the moment before he or she hits the “publish” button? Pundits, scholars, and everyday netizens have spent years trying to parse the (ever-shifting) rules of the Chinese Internet. Although Chinese authorities have… Read More ›

• Is China’s new ‘internet plus’ ambition all about new smartphones?

  By Sky In Company on April 30, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  China’s ‘internet plus’ strategy, announced in early March, promised to integrate mobile Internet, cloud computing and big data for manufacturing and promote the development of e-commerce, industrial networks and internet banking. But how would this ambitious plan to transform the… Read More ›

• Chinese state-owned company, in a first, defaults on its domestic bonds

  By Sky In Company on April 28, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  For decades, regardless of weaknesses or inefficiencies, an overriding certainty of state-backed capitalism in China has been that the government looks after its own. That may be changing. On Tuesday, a little-known power equipment manufacturer became the first state-owned company… Read More ›

• The Domino Theory: Asia’s growing China problem

  By Sky In Company on April 27, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  Asia has a China problem. Beijing has just initiated its biggest cut in bank reserve requirements since 2008, a move that underscores just how worried it is about its economy. But the cut is also a stark wake-up call for neighbours that have gotten… Read More ›

• Productivity, not reproductivity, must be the new driver of Chinese growth

  By Sky In Company on April 24, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Around a quarter of China’s remarkable economic growth over the past three decades or so was delivered by the dividend from its demographic structure, with a young population augmenting the workforce and lifting output in new jobs. A large proportion… Read More ›

• What’s behind the surprise drop in Chinese exports?

  By Sky In Company on April 22, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  China’s exports for the month of March fell by 15% from a year ago (in dollar terms), the General Administration of Customs said today. It was a big surprise to markets and investors, who were expecting a rise of as much as 12%…. Read More ›

• Three ways the rise of China’s stock market might change the world

  By Sky In Company on April 20, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  When a market gets on a roll, nothing seems to stop it. We have just learnt that China’s exports fell by an alarming 15% last month, while its imports fell by the biggest amount since the financial crash of 2008… Read More ›

• Asia’s dominance in manufacturing will endure – that will make development harder for others

  By Sky In Company on April 19, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  By making things and selling them to foreigners, China has transformed itself—and the world economy with it. In 1990 it produced less than 3% of global manufacturing output by value; its share now is nearly a quarter. China produces about… Read More ›

• China’s economy is worse than you think

  By Sky In Company on April 17, 2015 • ( 12 )

  

  China’s steel and metals markets, a barometer of the world’s second-biggest economy, are “a lot worse than you think,” according to a Bloomberg Intelligence analyst who just completed a tour of the country. What he saw: idle cranes, empty construction… Read More ›

• China threatens to shut down Sina news website unless it ‘improves censorship’

  By Sky In Company on April 16, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  China’s government has threatened to shut down Sina, one of the country’s most popular news websites unless it “improves censorship”, state media reported, in a rare public glimpse into controls over the press. The online portal “distorted news facts, violated morality and… Read More ›

• China attacking websites across the globe in new censorship offensive

  By Sky In Company on April 15, 2015 • ( 3 )

  

  China has expanded its internet censorship efforts beyond its borders with a new strategy that attacks websites across the globe, researchers said.The new strategy, dubbed “Great Cannon,” seeked to shut down websites and services aimed at helping the Chinese circumvent… Read More ›

• China risks social conflict if war on pollution lags, researchers warn

  By Sky In Company on April 14, 2015 • ( 6 )

  

  Any failure to tackle China’s huge pollution problems in the coming years could stoke public discontent and create “social conflicts,” government researchers warned, underlining political concerns driving Beijing’s war on smog. With pollution identified as a major source of unrest,… Read More ›

• China’s dilemma: How to discipline 90 million people

  By Sky In Company on April 13, 2015 • ( 5 )

  

  China’s extensive crackdown on government corruption, which has already ensnared hundreds of thousands of officials in the People’s Republic, is now spilling over the country’s borders. The State Department recently confirmed that China’s legal authorities had provided a list of… Read More ›

• China wants to recruit 10 million students to “civilise” the Internet, but won’t pay them for their time

  By Sky In Company on April 12, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  China wants to recruit 10 million young people, mostly university students belonging to the Communist Party’s youth wing, to “spread positive energy” on the Internet — in other words, to use social media to praise and defend the government. Web users… Read More ›

• China Ban Hits Google’s Search Ad Share; Baidu Gains

  By Sky In Company on April 10, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  Google’s search-ad revenues are eroding on a global scale in large part because China, one of the world’s fastest-growing markets for information services, has banned the U.S. company’s offerings. Meanwhile, Baidu, which is based in China, is reaping the benefits,… Read More ›

• China, the economy and Xi Jinping’s strategy

  By Sky In Company on April 9, 2015 • ( 18 )

  

  Few economies in the world are more closely watched than China’s. It is the second largest and fastest growing economy, so there’s a lot of attention being paid to who’s running things. Chinese President Xi Jinping is the most authoritarian… Read More ›

• EU cannot maintain protection against Chinese imports, as rules change in China’s favour

  By Sky In Company on April 9, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  European fears of being forced to lower tariff defences against cheap Chinese imports have grown following a confidential warning from the EU’s own lawyers, who say the bloc should not ignore changes to global trade rules set to favour Beijing…. Read More ›

• Google no longer recognises digital security certificates issued by Chinese government

  By Sky In Company on April 8, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Search giant Google will no longer recognise security certificates issued by the official China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC) following what experts called a “major breach of public trust and confidence”. CNNIC, which is responsible for internet affairs under the… Read More ›

• China says Central & Eastern European countries should implement attractive tourist visa policy for Chinese people

  By Sky In Company on April 2, 2015 • ( 4 )

  

  Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) should accelerate the implementation of visa on arrival, visa-free, and multiple entry visa policy for Chinese tourists, according to Li Jinzao, head of the China National Tourism Administration who was at the China tourism… Read More ›

• Why China won’t eliminate foreign technology by 2020

  By Sky In Company on April 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Late last week, an interesting piece ran in Bloomberg about China’s plans to eliminate foreign technology from government agencies and key industries by 2020, mostly for security reasons. China has already begun pushing in this direction – Windows 8 is… Read More ›

• ‘Made in China’ tops the EU’s most unsafe list

  By Sky In Company on April 1, 2015 • ( 1 )

  

  Every parent assumes the plush doll they bought for their child at the mall is safe, but if it has a “Made in China” label, you should think twice. A European Watchdog agency issued 2,435 notifications of unsafe products in 2014, which… Read More ›

• NGO weighs legal action after Chinese police raid its offices

  By Sky In Company on March 31, 2015 • ( 0 )

  

  An anti-discrimination civic group said on Friday it was considering legal action over a police raid on the group’s offices that was apparently prompted by its advocacy for five women’s rights activists whose detentions have drawn international scrutiny. Beijing Yirenping… Read More ›

• U.S. coding website GitHub hit with cyberattack, probably by China

  By Sky In Company on March 31, 2015 • ( 7 )

  

  A popular U.S. coding website is enduring an onslaught of Internet traffic meant for China’s most popular search engine, and security experts say the episode likely represents an attempt by China to shut down anticensorship tools. The attack on San… Read More ›