Translation and Interpretation

Interpreters may help shorten hospital stays

25 May 2012

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Hospitalized patients who aren't fluent in English end up spending fewer days in the hospital when they get help from a language interpreter at certain crucial times, according to a new U.S. study. People who had access to translation services were also less likely to be readmitted for the same complaint within the next month, researchers found. ...

Figes translation scrapped in Russia amid claims of inaccuracies

25 May 2012

Publishers say it would take too long to 'fix the text' of historian's interview-based book on Stalin's Russia When the British historian Orlando Figes admitted writing flattering reviews of his own work – and scathing attacks on rivals – on Amazon two years ago, his peers were aghast. Particularly those whose work had been damned as "awful" and "dense and pretentious". Damaging though the ...

Irshad Manji's books banned

24 May 2012

PETALING JAYA - Home Ministry has banned liberal Muslim author Irshad Manji's books titled "Allah, Liberty and Love" and its Malay translation "Allah, Kebebasan dan Cinta."