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Chinese Domain Names Approved By ICANN

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

ICANN has approved Chinese Domain Names to be registered using only chinese characters. Until now, web addresses have only been latin-based characters. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has finally approved the ...

Taking Your Website International with a Professional Translation Company

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Businesses wishing to take their website international would benefit from a Professional Translation Company for their Website Localization. For many online start-up businesses, they aim to satisfy the local market initially. Still, their long term ...

Professional Legal Translation vs. Freelance Translation

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

A Professional Legal Translation needs to be totally accurate. A translation company will help you to achieve this over a freelance translator. When it comes to translating the day to day business documents, most people ...

Medical Translation Increased for Polish Patients

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Medical Translation for Polish patients has increased recently according to government figures. Medical translation is a highly specialized discipline where the translator uses his or her knowledge in medicine to deliver a scientific message across ...

Language Translation: Transforming Your Website Business

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Language Translation Services have seen a huge increase since the millenium mainly due to website businesses wanting to expand to global markets. The world today is no longer isolated due to the exponential growth in ...

EU Officials Entry Exam - UK Lobbying For Language Change

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

The government is challenging the rules for the EU Officials Entry Exam. At present candidates must use a second language rather than their mother tongue. The new British government is now challenging the rules set ...

China Launches Global English News Channel

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Chinese news agency Xinhua has started broadcasting events in China in English. This move by Chinese government is primarily to combat media giants CNN and the BBC. The Chinese government owned news agency – Xinhua ...

Technical Translations Are Growing Quickly

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Technical Translations are growing in popularity as businesses become more global. The need for technical documents to be translated exists from every industry and shows no sign of decreasing. The demand for technical translations is ...

England Manager Fabio Capello Needs Extra English Lessons

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Everyone can benefit from extra English lessons, even England Manager Fabio Capello after England's loss to Germany in the World Cup 2010 For all the England fans watching the South African World Cup, it has ...

Translation Award Launched By Turkish and German Governments

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

A new Translation Award has been created between the German and Turkish Governments to help promote literary translations between the two languages. A new translation award has been created between two governments with the aim ...

Public Request for Changing the Draft Welsh Language Law

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

A group consisting of 14 different organisations has come together to publish an open letter to have changes made to the draft Welsh language law. The group wishing to make changes to the Welsh language ...

British Ex-Minister Says French Is a Useless Language

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

"Unless we have sufficient numbers of people who speak modern foreign languages - and not just the useless modern foreign languages like French" said British Minister Chris Bryant. With the changing world we live in, ...

Compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam for Immigrants Outside Of EU

By Steve Greenwood · 14 years ago

Immigrants originating from outside the European Union will now have to take the compulsory English Language Proficiency Exam, introduced by the Coalition Government The newly elected Conservative Liberal Democrat coalition government has made it a ...