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About Haoyah.com

Overview

Haoyah.com Pty Ltd is based in Melbourne, Australia. It is a full service Internet Media Company specializing in providing quality Internet content and professional services to online Chinese community. It offers a full array of Chinese language news, entertainment, e-commerce platforms, and financial information and lifestyle tips. With its separate website in China, Haoyah.com provides global content and services directly to the audience of each region of China.

History

Haoyah.com was founded in November 1999. It is one of the largest Chinese Web Sites in Australia. Haoyah.com website has two versions: Simplified Chinese, for people from Mainland China; Traditional Chinese, for people from Hong Kong, Taiwan, etc; Its future functions are anticipated to be far beyond the present realm. It will reach not only into the Chinese community within Australia, but also the global Chinese market.

In China, we have established a joint venture with the XINAO GROUP to set up a portal site in Beijing. The completion of this project will accelerate our web operation in the Great China region.

Objectives

Haoyah.com has set its objectives as providing a hub for global information sharing and opening up trade opportunities between the east and west, providing the international and Australia news for Chinese community in Australia. We also provide services which could help people to remove language and cultural barriers and build online communities.

This web site covers 16 areas: News, Entertainment, Finance, Commerce, Medicine, Literature & Art, Tourism, Education, Food, Information Technology, Real Estate, Automotive, Sports, Employment, Legal and Miscellaneous. There are also sub-sections within each main area. For instance, Under automotive, visitors can view information such as, news, reviews, dealer invoice information, complete model listings, and a dealer locator; Currently, Haoyah.com functions as a info-media. It allows web surfers to obtain information on all areas.

Haoyah.com Products

Haoyah.com is one of the largest full service Chinese portal web sites in Australia. Its contents include Finance, Latest News, Immigration, Education, Online Domain Name Registration, e Commerce, Virtual Market, Entertainment, Tourism,  Medicine, Literature & Art, Food, IT world, Real Estate, Automotive, Sports, Employment, Legal and Lifestyle, Secondhand Market, Newspapers, Weather Forecast, Chat room and BBS. There are also sub-sections within each main area.

The following details the functionality and content of some areas:

Finance

The Finance section provides detailed information of Australian economic and financial situations. This includes comprehensive information on the Australian stock market, interest rates, currency exchange rates, and news on investments, etc.

Online stock trading: We have set up a co-branded online bilingual share trading system with Sanford Security Ltd. We are the first and only web site in Australia, which has online Australian stock trading system in Chinese. This site helps Chinese investors to invest their money in Australia by Haoyah in their own language. Financial information on Hong Kong, Taiwan, China and other regions are also covered in this section.

Business

An online Chinese Yellow Page, which covers Chinese businesses in Australia.

At the same time, we are building a business network through our web site. This will provide a gateway for businesses in both the east and west. Australian products and services can be introduced to Asia, in the native language of consumers and vise versa. The purpose of this is to remove language and cultural barriers for people in different marketplaces and optimize trade opportunities globally. 

Education

There are 600,000 Australian Chinese in Australia. More and more students come from China and Asia to study in Australia. This year the total number of Chinese students studying in Australia will exceed 100,000. This has provided an opportunity for Haoyah.com to tackle this special market segment.

Haoyah’s education site posts complete information related to all levels of education in Australia and New Zealand. This information contains: a list of schools, colleges, and universities, their rating, courses, subjects and duration, enrollment details, fees and charges, scholarships, relevant conditions and requirements, facilities and services, etc.

Online Domain Name Registration

  Cooperated with Melbourne IT, Haoyah provides Chinese domain name registration service. The registration is processed worldwide simultaneously. Also, Haoyah provides English domain name and Australian domain name registration service.

Tourism

The initial focus of this section is currently in Australia. There are detailed introductions of popular tourist sites within each state of Australia. This includes all types of local information such as: detailed maps, transportation, accommodation, food and restaurants, shopping, famous scenic places and other sites attractive to tourists, festivals and events, relevant costs, weather condition, special local produce, tourist organizations and their service, travel reviews and tips, etc. Other services provided include a currency converter. By visiting this section, more tourists from Asia will be attracted to Australia.

E Commerce

Haoyah provides Domain name registration, Online stock trading system, Online shopping (Sending flowers to China and Telephone Card Sale). The e-shopping process is supported by Haoyah’s secure online transaction processing facility.

Automotive

This section has different motor dealer listings from all over Australia. Visitors can click straight into individual dealer’s sites from Haoyah.com’s link. Visitors can view different car models and assess various car loan options.

Real Estate

This section is mainly information on a property price index in all areas of Australia, news on purchasing and renting properties. There are links to different real estate agents, property valuation estimators, and mortgage lenders.

Haoyah has an association with Realestate.com.au – the largest online real estate company in Australia to establish an online bilingual property search. Visitors are now able to search properties from all over Australia without leaving home. By doing so, they can save an enormous amount of time in visiting a large number of individual agencies. 

Employment

Haoyah has established a link with Mycareer.com. Visitors are now able to conduct Mycareer.com’s search through Haoyah. Haoyah provides job seekers with interview tips, a resume building system, and career development assistance.

The next step will be to establish an online employment service in China. We are going to cooperate with the Education section in this area to offer online training for particular job requirements, as well as training for job seeking and work placement.

Virtual Community

This is an area for people to trade second hand goods, place advertisements or search on jobs, rentals, and special relationships. Most of all, this service is absolutely free of charge.

·        Second Hand Market: people can buy and sell all sorts of second hand goods through this market. The sellers are able to add, edit and delete their items any time online from their own home PC. This has enabled buyers to view real time information.

·        Rental Market: It allows vendors to place rental information online and search for desirable tenants, and vise versa.

·        Job Market: People can view different types of full and part-time positions.

Bulletin Board / Forum

It is a place for people to post their own ideas, topics and issues of any kind, or discuss whatever they like with someone. They can share their idea, joy or disappointment with someone else online any time. They can even ask questions, or express their concerns on Haoyah’s bulletin board.   

Services

Haoyah.com intends to offer a whole suite of multicultural Internet services, on line virtual market, and off line professional services to the Asian Pacific region and other clients all over the world. The services include:

·        Multicultural web site design  

·        Virtual marketing

·        Banner advertising

·        Directory listing

·        E-commerce solution

·        Consulting service

·        Content sponsorship

·        Translation service

 

Our Mission

HaoYah.com is currently looking to attract more companies of varying scales and from various industries to link with its site and to attract more visitors world wide. We are planning to construct a IT infrastructure with the capability of addressing the following areas: 1. Tracking and tracing our online visitors and their online behavior. 2. Be able to produce comprehensive reports and analysis for marketing purposes. 3. An indepth data warehouse for in-house data storage and customer transaction information. 4. Compatible enough to suit all type of businesses and customers. 5. Scaleable enough to adapt to future rapid traffic and business growth. 6. Secure enough to process all business transactions and data transmission across all business units and via internet. 7. Reliable enough to handle different types of system related problems such as connectivity, speed, and other faults. In China, we have established a joint venture with the Lang Fang City Council to set up a portal site in Beijing. The completion of this project will accelerate our web operation in the Great China region. The next development stage for HaoYah.com is to develop an English Web Site as a gateway for Chinese companies to communicate with the west.

Our Location

Haoyah.com Pty Ltd

Level 8 167-169 Queen Street,

Melbourne VIC 3000

Australia

Tel: 03-96400566 (Within Australia) or 61-3-96400566 (International)

Fax: 03-96000699 (Within Australia) or 61-3-96000699 (International)

Email: info@haoyah.com



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