Here is a letter which I received today from that worthy organization:

Dear Thomas Robertson,

This is a letter from Zhangcheng Tong (Manager of HR) and Richard Lee (Manager of FAO) written on behalf of Hangzhou Zhejhiang University Helen China TEFL Network Co., Ltd (abbreviated as China TEFL Network or CTN). By this Letter of Notification we would like to inform you officially of the following facts:

1. Hangzhou Zhejiang University Helen China TEFL Network Co., Ltd is the first Company and one of the 32 companies in China up to this moment registered and authorized by the State Administration for Foreign Expert Affairs (SAFEA) to recruit and assign foreign teachers to certified schools around China.

2. On Feb. 10th one of our recruiting staff, Jane Qin, resigned from the Company, so any conducts and words from her after that date does not represent our Company.

3. Our recent investigation has shown that, some previous staff resigned, and even some one still in the Company at this moment, under the drive of their own economic interest, has built a team of partners of crime and involved in the theft of commercial secrets from the Company, which is obviously against the Chinese law.

4. The team of partners of crime made up untruthful stories and sent them through e-mails or phone calls to some of our present foreign teachers of our Company, sent to foreign foreign teachers who has received legal visa invitation from the Company and on their way to entering China, just for one aim, to hold back the Company’s foreign teachers and introduce teachers to other schools they contacted and make illegal money. Their behaviors have violated the Chinese Law. All these illegal conducts has resulted in causing severe loss to the Company and the schools both in reputation and economy. They also caused negative influence to our foreign teachers and their legality of working in China.

5. Fortunate enough, most of our foreign teachers don’t believe their words and conducts. Some of our teachers reported to our Company on these illegal things. The Company has started to collect evidences of the crimes and has reported to the local the PSB (Public Security Bureau) in Hangzhou on the crimes. More other evidences of the crimes from our foreign teachers are welcome to provide to us if you have any.

By this letter of Notification, here we would kindly again remind everyone of the teachers that when you apply for a position in China through an agency, the first and most important thing you should do is that you should ask the agency for a copy of their license from SAFEA to make sure if the agency is legal or not.

As for the list of legal 32 companies in China up to now, please check SAFEA website (http://www.safea.gov.cn/content.shtml?id=12745867) for more details, and please check our Company’s website for our license copy (http://en.chinatefl.com/about/License.htm). Please do not trust any gossip or rumors from those partners of crime and not to be deceived easily.

Any further questions or any help from our BPO schools or from our Company, please contact us by e-mail at fao2@helengroup.com; gmoffice1@chinatefl.com.

HR Manager & FAP Manager
Hangzhou Zhejiang University Helen China TEFL Network Co., Ltd
Feburary 26, 02013

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