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		<title>Global Handshake</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sooner or later, it happens to everyone running a business. You notice that more and more of your meetings are with people with unpronounceable last names or in cities far removed from North America or Western Europe. You find yourself eating sushi with a big customer in Osaka or jetting off to meet with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Al-Jazeera English and Press Interpreter</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/28/al-jazeera-english-and-press-interpreter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Nov 2006 05:35:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today, I added links to the Al-Jazeera English &#8211; Front Page and Press  Interpreter &#124; The foreign language news in English to the Linguistic Solutions &#8211; Global Culture page, under &#8220;Read a Foreign Newspaper &#8211; Expand Your Point of View,&#8221; one of 7 Strategies for Expanding Your Cultural Awareness and Sensitivity.
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		<title>Al Jazeera English Goes Live</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/11/26/al-jazeera-english-goes-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 27 Nov 2006 03:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera English, the new international news channel from the Qatar-based television network, has begun broadcasting from its main studios in Doha.
The opening broadcast, which was expected to be available in 80 million households around the world, took place at 3pm Doha time (12:00 GMT) and featured a clip introducing the channel.
Aiming to be the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Found in Translation: King&#8217;s &#8216;Dream&#8217; Plays in Beijing</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/found-in-translation-kings-dream-plays-in-beijing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 May 2006 04:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For months now, Caitrin McKiernan has gone from place to place in this city to ask Chinese people an unlikely question: What does the life of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. mean to you?
The questions don&#8217;t end there, either. In most of these gatherings, she gets far more specific, burrowing into the history [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Help is a Call Away, Ctizens Taught</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/05/29/help-is-a-call-away-ctizens-taught/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 May 2006 07:07:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Newcomers to Canada don&#8217;t always know how to reach emergency services or what to expect when police, fire or ambulance personnel show up at their door.
Some come from countries where the police are perceived as corrupt or oppressive.
That&#8217;s why Halton police have initiated a unique diversity program called Emergency Services Information to New Canadians (ESINC). [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half White-collars Keep Blogs, Privacy Top Theme</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/02/22/half-white-collars-keep-blogs-privacy-top-theme/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Feb 2006 05:35:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[ Web Globalization]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogging has increasingly become more popular in China, with 52% of white-collar workers now keeping weblogs (blogs) according to CBP Career Consultants Co., Ltd., a leading career consulting firm in China.
Pictures from the Web log of a woman from Shanghai who goes by the pseudonym Mu Mu.
Unlike western bloggers who often focus on news and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Int&#8217;l Day of Mother Languages to debut in China</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/02/17/intl-day-of-mother-languages-to-debut-in-china/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 20:15:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An International Day for the Celebration of Mother Languages, which falls on Feb. 21 every year, will make its debut in China.
    The United Nations Education, Science and Culture Organization (UNESCO)introduced the day in 1999, aiming to promote people&#8217;s awareness of their mother tongue, which, as an communication tool, represents a specific [...]]]></description>
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		<title>R&amp;D: Globalization &amp; Flat World</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/02/17/rd-globalization-flat-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2006 19:50:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In fifteen years of offshoring, India has been aggressively expanding its higher-value services (proof points exist in business application innovations, product development, and BPO) and has developed a stable of world-class IT services vendors that can save foreign companies the trouble of setting up their own offshore centers. A large supply of qualified talent exist [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google Launches Censored Chinese Search Engine</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/01/28/google-launches-censored-chinese-search-engine/</link>
		<comments>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2006/01/28/google-launches-censored-chinese-search-engine/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2006 04:10:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Online search giant Google (GOOG) launched a China-based search engine Wednesday that will be self-censored to avoid posting results that antagonize China&#8217;s communist government.
Google.cn uses the Chinese Web suffix &#8220;.cn&#8221; and supplements the existing dot-com Chinese-language website available from servers in the USA.
&#8220;In order to operate from China, we have removed some content from the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Muslim-US Diplomacy &#8211; One Teen at a Time</title>
		<link>http://www.linguisticsolutions.com/2005/06/28/muslim-us-diplomacy-one-teen-at-a-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2005 11:35:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Christopher Hurtado</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Sometimes diplomacy is as simple as a teenager&#8217;s smile. In the halls of Falmouth Academy on Massachusetts&#8217; Cape Cod, the face of Iraq is Ruba &#8211; unveiled and unabashed as she gives out hugs and high-fives.
&#8220;I love answering questions,&#8221; she says as she nears the end of her year here as a high school [...]]]></description>
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