With next week’s iPhone event just around the corner, it’s a good bet we’ll soon be getting iOS 5, the next major version of the software that powers Apple’s iPods, iPhones, and iPads. By now, you’re probably ready for the handy new features, tweaked UI, new Twitter integration, and everything else (read what we’ve learned [...]
Launch declared a success as space station era beckons 标志着空间站成功发射新纪元的到来。 JIUQUAN, Gansu – China’s space dream took a step closer to reality as the Tiangong-1 module blasted off into the night sky on Thursday from the Gobi Desert. 星期四晚上，中国甘肃酒泉卫星发射基地的茫茫戈壁滩上，天宫一号点火升空。 The Long March II-F T1 rocket, under the unmanned module, Tiangong-1, lifted off from the Jiuquan [...]
BEIJING — Twelve government employees have been fired and stripped of their Communist Party membership after an investigation into allegations that family planning officials kidnapped children in an impoverished rural area in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, People’s Daily, the party’s official newspaper, reported Thursday. 北京- – -一份调查指控称计划生育官员在中国南部省份湖南省的一个贫困农村绑架儿童，十二名公务员被开除公职和党籍，共产党的官方报纸人民日报周四报道。 While investigators concluded that the government [...]
Vladimir Putin has sparked speculation he has had a facelift amid a backlash over his decision to return as Russian president. 普京为了重当总统去整容使人们发生猜想。 The 58-year-old’s appearance at the United Russia congress in Moscow set tongues wagging about cosmetic surgery. 人们纷纷议论参加在莫斯科统一俄罗斯党年会上58岁的普京外貌。 Mr Putin appeared to have puffier cheeks, while bags under his eyes that were clearly visible [...]
La Nacion is reporting that an unknown explosion has leveled a few buildings, killing at least one person, in the town of Monte Grande, Argentina. What is also included in some reports are the testimonies from witnesses who claim to have seen a gigantic fireball falling from the sky just before 2 am on Monday morning. [...]
KUANSHAN, TAIWAN — Early this year, military intelligence agents and prosecutors showed up at a white, single-story farmhouse here in southern Taiwan and told Lo Hsien-sheng that they needed to search the premises. They hunted in sacks of rice, burrowed in the garden and checked the chicken pen. 台湾关山-早些年， “They said they were looking for [...]
SHANGHAI — Hundreds of people were injured here on Tuesday when a subway train slammed into the rear of another train in a sprawling transit line that opened just last year. The accident cast new scrutiny on the safety record of China’s rapidly modernizing mass transit rail systems. 上海-去年新建地铁启动时发生两辆地铁碰撞事故，周二那天数以百计的人受伤。这次事故给快速发展的中国现代化铁路交通安全系统敲响警钟。 The state-run news media reported that [...]
Samsung opens the door to the high speed, high resolution 4G era by unveiling new LTE smartphone line up in Korea 三星揭开LTE智能手机的神秘面纱，在韩国开启了高速、高清的4G时代。 SEOUL, Korea, September 26th, 2011 – Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd, a global leader in digital media and digital convergence technologies, today announced the launch of ‘GALAXY S II LTE’ and ‘GALAXY S II [...]
HONG KONG — General Motors said Tuesday that it would develop electric cars in China through a joint venture with a Chinese automaker, and would transfer battery and other electric car technology to the venture. 香港-通用汽车公司周二表示它将通过与中国汽车制造商在中国合资发展电动车，将电池和电动车技术转移到合资企业。 G.M., which is already the largest foreign maker of conventional vehicles in China, is keen to help define the [...]
In what is probably just an Internet rumor, MediaTakeOut.com is reporting that Michael Jordan is marrying Cuban model Yvette Prieto next week. After giving up $168 million in the divorce with Juanita I’d think MJ would be steering clear of marriage for a while.. As in, when the Bobcats win a championship. 这可能只是一个网上的谣言，MediaTakeOut.com今天报导麦克尔乔丹将要与古巴模特伊薇特-普列托在下周进行结婚。在花了1亿6千8百万美元与胡安妮塔离婚后，我认为乔丹将暂时对于自己的婚姻看得很清晰…就像何时山猫队能夺取了总冠军一样。 Jordan and [...]
How many NBA players can say they have a limited edition car named after them on top of 5 finals rings? Kobe Bryant’s signature Smart car was recently released in China. The limited edition Black Mamba” Fortwo. 有多少NBA运动员能自称在他们获得5次总冠军戒指后，他们会有一辆限量版的车子来命名？在中国，科比布赖恩特的签名被放在最近发布的SMART汽车上。就是这款黑色限量黑曼巴蛇。 The “Black Mamba” Smart features fully blacked out exterior and interior and dynamic BRABUS wheels. Basically your [...]
BEIJING — For a nation not yet inured to lurid and senseless crime, a report that a former civil servant in central China kept six women enslaved in an underground bunker — and that he killed two of them — was shocking enough. 新京报-作为一个国家还尚未习惯于耸人听闻和愚蠢的犯罪，曾有一篇报道指出一名公务员把六名女子囚禁在地下室，他杀害了其中两个，让人震惊万分。 But perhaps almost as disturbing, at least to some readers, was [...]
Today Dan Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point went activist on Yahoo! (YHOO). The hedge fund manager is well known for his eloquently penned letters that often attack his targets with brutal honesty. 今天丹尼尔·勒布的对冲基金麾下的第三点有限责任公司对雅虎公司（股票代码 YHOO）有所行动。对冲基金经理以他富有雄辩的信函，经常残忍而又诚实地抨击他的目标而著称。 Below is Dan Loeb’s letter to Yahoo! (YHOO): 下面是丹尼尔·勒布写给雅虎（股票代码 YHOO）的信: “September 8, 2011 2011年9月8日 Board of Directors 董事会 Yahoo! Inc. 雅虎公司。 701 First [...]
SINGAPORE – Asia Pacific Breweries (APB) is the only Singapore company to make the cut on Forbes Asia’s Fabulous 50 ranking of the largest listed companies in the region this year. 新加坡–今年在这里，亚太酿酒厂（APB）是唯一一家新加坡企业努力挤进福布斯亚洲50强最大的公司排行。 APB, with a market value of US$5.7 billion (S$7 billion) and sales of US$1.9 billion, is a newcomer to the list. Olam International, [...]
PARIS — An explosion at a nuclear waste facility in southern France killed one person and injured four on Monday. Authorities said there was no radioactive leak, but critics urged France to rethink its nuclear power in the wake of the catastrophe at Japan’s Fukushima plant. 巴黎– 周一，在法国南部一个核废料设施的爆炸导致一人死亡四人受伤。当局说那里无放射性泄漏，但是批评者呼吁法国应该重新考虑它的核能不再步入像日本福岛核电站的大灾难。 The Nuclear Safety Authority declared the accident [...]
Country Mapof Guinea-Bissau 几内亚比绍的地图 U.S. State Department Consular Information Sheet for Guinea-Bissau 美国驻几内亚比绍的领事登记表 Guinea-Bissau Embassy in the U.S. 几内亚比绍驻美的使馆 World Factbook entry for Guinea-Bissau 几内亚比绍的概况的条目 Other On-Line Resources Related to Guinea-Bissau 其它与几内亚比绍有关的线上资源： Guinea-Bissau The index has been created by The Norwegian Council for Africa, as part of its comprehensive effort to strengthen the knowledge of [...]
