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April 2011
  • Over 300 interpreters ready to help quake-affected foreigners – Kyodo News
  • Lancashire police interpreter contract is scrapped – Sam Chadderton
  • Conference report on AVIDICUS symposium on remote interpreting – Miren Maialen Samper
  • Huang Youyi: China has stories to tell the world – Ren Zhongxi
  • Lost in translation: courtroom video-link interpreting – Catherine Burton
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February 2011
  • Interpreter’s actions raise suspect rights question – Chase Purdy
  • Translation as Literary Ambassador – Larry Rother
  • Courts Service goes to tender again – Mary Phelan
  • Medical interpreters are a patient’s right – Francesca Lunzer Kritz, LA Times
  • Deaf man can sit on jury, says judge – Eithne Donnellan
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December 2010
  • Lack of interpreters a threat to Swedish asylum process – thelocal.se
  • European Commission wants more universities to offer courses for translators
  • Conference Report – Mediterranean Translators and Editors Meeting – Ann Marie Bohan
  • Conference Report – Sixth International Conference in Translation and Interpreting (IPCITI) Manchester – Miren Maialen Samper
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October 2010
  • Loughborough, Leicestershire immigration centre criticised for lack of interpreters – BBC News
  • NHS ‘failing those who don’t speak English’ – BBC News
  • Business “sans frontiers”! – Languages for European SMEs
  • Conference Report – Birmingham Critical Link conference on public sector interpreting – Mirean Maialen Samper
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August 2010
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  • Two anthologies of poetry in translation – Máire Nic Mhaoláin
  • Conference Report: Author –Translator conference in the European Literary tradition – Pawel Zosik
  • Thank you, but no thank you! – Michael J McCann
  • Demand for translating services slump amid public sector cuts in UK – Katie Allen
  • EU recruitment
June 2010
  • Dublin Rape Crisis Centre interpreter training – Miren Maialen Samper
  • See one, do one: a handy grasp of Hindi – Rishika Sinha
  • Unilingual Supreme Court of Canada judges just don’t get it – Sébastien Grammond
  • What is in a name? – Kevin Lin
  • Will Lady Justice ever be multilingual? – Nataly Kelly
  • Siobhán Parkinson, Ireland’s first Laureate na nÓg – Enda Wyley
  • Dáil questions about achievements of Foras na Gaeilge 11 May 2010
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May 2010
  • New online Italian MA in specialist translation – Michael McCann
  • Why literary translators deserve some credit – Tim Parks
  • Interpreters in California challenge process that certifies skill – Dana Littlefield
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March 2010
  • The lives of others – Madrid police translators – Carla Guimares
  • Spanish judges protest at lack of qualified translators in court cases – F. Javier Barroso
  • Hundreds of Hungarian driving licences issued to illiterate Romanians – Krisztina Zimányi
  • Statistics-based machine translation gaining ground – Irish Times
  • European Commission proposes minimum Translation and Interpreting standards for suspects – Irish Times
  • Pádraic MacKernan 1940-2010 – John Kearns
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