Belgium teeters on a linguistic edge

As French-speakers spread north in Belgium, Flemish hear a threat
If Belgium vanishes one day, it will be because of little towns like this one, where Flemish politicians are riding a new wave of nationalism and pushing for an independent state. Liedekerke has only 12,000 inhabitants, but its elected council has caused a stir by insisting on [...]

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Belgium under scrutiny over linguistic feud

The country hosting the EU institutions may soon face a monitoring procedure by the Council of Europe, according to human rights envoys from the oldest European organisation speaking in Brussels yesterday at the end of a fact-finding mission. One of the envoys on the fact-finding mission is a Serb, whose country is currently under several monitoring procedures [...]

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UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for research to develop universally accessible technology

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for research to develop universally accessible technology in a message addressed on the World Telecommunication and Information Society Day, to be observed on 17 May. Starting with the earliest drum beats, telegraphy — “writing in distance” — has been with us in dynamic, evolutionary motion. The ability to relay important [...]

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DoD Announces Grant Awards for The 2008 ROTC Language and Culture Project

The Department of Defense (DoD) announced today the award of eight major grants totaling $3.07 million dollars, as part of the 2008 Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC) Language and Culture Project, sponsored by the National Security Education Program, on behalf of the Defense Language Office. This year’s recipients include Arizona State University, Georgia Institute of [...]

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Beef mistranslation shows Korea’s poor negotiating power

Mistranslation Shows Korea’s Poor Negotiating Power

The government is said to have been unable to understand Washington’s cattle feed rules during beef talks with U.S. officials and mistranslated certain parts of the cattle feed rules while officials were writing up question-and-answer material for the Korean public. The U.S. government had stated in the federal gazette that [...]

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Across Systems and Localization Providers Launch ”Independence” Campaign to Highlight Issues of Consolidation in Translation Industry

According to Across Systems, a leading provider of corporate translation management solutions, consolidation and acquisitions in the translation industry have bound many enterprises to proprietary software technologies and often force [...]

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Intradyn Enters Asian Market With Release of Native Language Email Active Archiving Appliance

Intradyn Enters Asian Market With Release of Native Language Email Active Archiving Appliance

Also announces the appointment of Kenji Tokuhisa as Country Manager to head
the new sales and support office in Tokyo, Japan.
ST. PAUL, Minn., May 14 /PRNewswire/ — Intradyn(TM), the leader in
simple, affordable appliance solutions for automated e-mail active
archiving, announced today at the “Information Security [...]

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Arabic translation of the Advanced Disaster Medical Response Manual for Providers

Every family should know how to save itself if emergency services cannot help after a natural disaster or terrorist attack, relief specialists say. Everyone should have a week’s supply of food and water in their home and access to first-aid kits, medicines, water and other essentials in their car, office and school, said Linda Sperberg, [...]

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Justice depends on court interpreters

Barstow courthouse Spanish interpreter Carmen Cordova had her first court interpreting experience at the age of 12, when her Mexican-born father got a traffic citation in Los Angeles. At that time, there was no formal court interpreter program in California, so Cordova went with her father to court. She was already used to translating for [...]

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Ireland: Rape crisis handbook for translators launched

Rape crisis handbook launched

The Dublin Rape Crisis Centre (DRCC) has launched a handbook for translators who accompany sexual assault victims to their clinics.The DRCC said 11% of people who use its services are immigrants who speak little English. The new handbook is currently available from the DRCC and will also be launched on its website [...]

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