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Happy Boxing Day

December 26, 2020 by John Yunker

For those of us in the US, today is simply the day after Christmas. But for many millions around the world, today is Boxing Day. Which you’ll see if you visit Amazon.co.uk (leave it to Amazon to extend it a …

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Categories Amazon, Australia, Boxing Day, Holidays, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

The Year of the Pig (one localized website at a time)

February 5, 2019 by John Yunker

Lunar New Year has arrived and, with it, the Chinese New Year (and related Asian New Year celebrations). As I’ve done a few times in the past, I thought I’d feature a few localized web pages from multinationals as they …

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Categories BMW, China, Chinese New Year, Culture, Events, Google, Holidays, Nike, Starbucks, Web Globalization, Web Globalization Report Card

One person’s workday is another person’s holiday

March 31, 2013December 23, 2011 by John Yunker

I was fresh out of college and living in Australia when I first experienced Boxing Day. I was clueless. I thought the Aussies were unusually eager fans of, well, boxing. If only I had Wikipedia back then. Now, Boxing Day …

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