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14th August 2003: Published our analysis of the percentage of Requests for Proposals broken down by region for the 1st half of 2003, illustrating a softening (but most likely temporary) of the trend towards China and East Asia. Thailand was the country with highest growth of interest so far in 2003. See Market Research Trends in Asia - (August 2003).
14th Jan 2003 Due to expansion in our data collection requirements we have provided an application form for part time and casual field workers for quick registration. These are in the areas of phone, street intercept and face to face interviewing, mystery customer and mystery shopping. Please note the greatest demand at present is for Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and South Korea in both capital and provincial cites. Field workers must sign a NDA and confidentiality agreement, agree to a background check, and attend a general training session and specific briefings for each project. Payment is via piece rate after validation of work by field work supervisors. Please note there are no positions available at present for full time field research supervisors nor Project leaders, who develop mainly from our most successful field force members.
1st Jan 2003 Thailand is one of our fastest expanding and busiest data collection centres, providing services for 14 clients in 2002 from telephone interviewing to focus groups and shopping mall and street intercepts. We pride ourselves on the quality of our English to Thai to English translations by back translation and team translation specifically for research materials, which often makes a major difference in the accurancy and dependability of research results. See our new page on Market Research in Thailand.
2nd Dec 2002: We wish all our clients and visitors a very happy Christmas, Hari Raya and New Year. Our office will be closed for 3 days over the Christmas/New Year period, but our online customer service and enquiry email addresses will still be manned.
24th Nov 2002: Our listing of clients and projects has just been updated incoporating new commissions for the past 3 months.
20th Sep 2002: Orient Pacific Century is pleased to announce new online survey and web survey capabilities after 6 months of testing, extending our full range of data collection techniques to the Web. Our first project, involving data collection in over 12 countries for a major client is already under way with exciting results.
18th Sep 2002: See our analysis of our market research Requests for Proposals to Orient Pacific Century over the past 2 and a 1/2 years, showing the dramatic increase in interest in Chinese consumer and industrial market research.
5th Sep 2002: We have now incoporated a live chat facility on most pages of the OPC site, as demonstrated at the bottom of this page. The icon indicates whether one of our staff are Online, or Offline. If on-line, clicking on the icon should result in establishing a chat window to one of our staff. We tend to be on-line around 12 hours a day, including both Asian and American/European working hours. We trust our clients and visitors will find this extra method of communication useful.
4th Sep 2002: Our Web site was fully updated with a new style on September 5th 2002, designed to improve navigation and loading times for our clients and visitors.
19th June 2002: We welcome new staff member Mr Harris Cazaly to the Malaysian office
30th August 2002: See our updated guide to running focus groups in Asia
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