A few days before the iPad was released in the second wave of countries, Apple managed to surpass Microsoft in terms of market value – let’s have a look at an excerpt of Chinese language news related to this: 以市值而言，生產麥金塔電腦、iPod、iPhone和iPad等產品的蘋果公司（Apple），擠下軟體業巨擘微軟公司（Microsoft），登上規 … Continue reading
Every Monday we will be having a look at a selection of the week’s international news from Chinese language newspapers and dissecting the important keywords: 1, Global Competitiveness Report 瑞士洛桑管理學院世界競爭力年鑑十八日出爐，星、港超越美國擠上前兩名，台灣躍升至第八。 瑞士洛桑管理学院世界竞争力年鉴十八日出炉，星、港超越美国挤上前两名，台湾跃升至第八。 瑞士（瑞士） Pinyin: ruì shì Zhuyin: ㄖㄨㄟˋ ㄕˋ English: Switzerland … Continue reading
In reaction to the result of today’s UK general election here’s a brief news hack with some keywords from a Chinese news article relating to the current situation in the UK: 工黨（工党） Pinyin: gōng dǎng Zhuyin: ㄍㄨㄥ ㄉㄤˇ English: Labour … Continue reading
Using the term ‘BRIC‘ is now commonplace when describing the four up-and-coming economic powers: Brazil, Russia, India and China. The countries met for the second official summit on the 16th of April 2010 to discuss their economic future, more specifally … Continue reading
In light of the recent Russian bombings, and attacks on the American Embassy in Pakistan you may well find yourself staring at a Chinese news article about similar attacks and wondering what certain words mean. Here is an outline of … Continue reading
