Ten things you should know in

News Translation

1. Free Translation/Adaptation

2. GMT Calculation

HK -> GMT = 13:00 8 hours = 0700 GMT

GMT -> HK time = 16:00 + 8 hours = 24:00
London summer time = GMT +1 hour
The earthquake occurred at 9:52 a.m. local
time (0852 GMT) off the northern coast of
Sicily island () region.

3. Currency Signs and Exchange

Rates

US $6.25 million
HK $0.37 million
21 billion
530 million
NT$ 0.5 billion
1.7 trillion
120 thousand

4. Titles

Chinese president
USState Department chief
Prime Minister Vs Vs
the Premier of the Republic of China

5. Stance

Ties between China and Japan have

been repeatedly strained by a territorial
row over a group of islands, known as
the Senkaku islands in Japan and the
Diaoyu islands in China. ~BBC News
The rebels took over the capital and set
up a new government.

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Takeshima islands
Senkaku islands
Scarborugh Shoal
The Kuril Islands
Sakhalin Island

6. Names referring to
institutions or authorities

The Pentagon announced Tuesday that

it has stopped training Afghan troops
because of anti-American protests
across the Muslim world.
Six-nation talks in Beijing on North
Korea's nuclear programme fail to
bridge gap between Washington and
Pyongyang.

The White House has threatened to

veto a controversial act due to go before
the House of Representatives this week.
British Prime Minister David Cameron's
emergency talks in Downing Street over
possible military action against Syria
have finished.
An armed raider waved a gun at a twoyear-old child as he and another man
tried to rob a post office in south London,
Scotland Yard said.

7. New words

ped-text (verb)
couplie (noun)
FTW (abbreviation)
applepick (verb)
twit-rape (verb)

8. How to translate Peoples

Names

Adolf Hitler Vs
Joseph Stalin Vs

George Bush Vs Vs
Barack Obama Vs
Leon Panetta: Vs


Barack Obama
Silvio Berlusconi
David Beckham

Barack Obama
Silvio Berlusconi

David Beckham

Hilary Clinton /
Michelle Obama
*Cory Aquino

Yingluck Shinawatra ()
Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
()
Najib Razak ()

Gordon BrownVs

Tony BlairVs

Chris Patten
Kevin Rudd

Gary Locke
Lucy Liu
Connie Chung

9. How to translate place

names

Los Angeles Vs
San Francisco Vs
Massachusetts Vs
British Columbia Vs

10. Special Terms and Proper

Nouns

IBM Vs
Google Vs
Intel Vs
Facebook Vs /

The Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra

Vs
The Bank of Bangkok
Vs
Chung Chi College & New Asia College

Questions?