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German Firm Bans Foreign Languages at Work (The Moscow Times)

08 September 2008 BERLIN — A German technology company in which Russians comprise more than one-third of the staff has banned the use of foreign languages in the workplace.

Qur'an translations in 107 languages on show (Islamic Republic News Agency)

Iran - Int'l Quran Exhibit Translations of the holy Quran in 107 living world languages are on display at the Qur'an translation section of the ongoing 16th Tehran International Qur'an Exhibition.

More needed in N.W.T. act for aboriginal languages, advocates say (CBC North)

As the Northwest Territories gets ready to review its Official Languages Act, some advocates say the legislation should do more to protect and promote aboriginal languages.

Cenotaph unveiled for wartime sex slaves on Miyako Island (The Japan Times)

NAHA, Okinawa Pref. (Kyodo) About 100 people from Japan and South Korea attended the unveiling Sunday of a cenotaph commemorating wartime sex slaves mainly from the Korean Peninsula forced to serve Japanese soldiers on Okinawa's Miyako Island. The stone monument bears inscriptions in 12 languages. The inscription in English reads, "We remember the suffering of the individual women who were ...

The meek shall inherit the web (Express India)

The World Wide Web Consortium, the body that leads the development of technical standards for the web, usually concerns itself with nerdy matters such as extensible mark-up languages and cascading style sheets.