聞 - Wen2 - Hear, Smell
新聞 - Xin1 Wen2 - New Hear – News
newsinchinese.com has very cool technology! Mouse over a word of phrase and it is translated into pinyin and English. Two things that I consider drawbacks: 1) the site is written in Simplified Chinese, 2) it is based on a feed from Xinhua, the Chinese government’s official news agency.
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AP - Shares of Ubisoft Entertainment SA rose 4 percent Wednesday as the French video game maker and its U.S. rival said they were in discussions, prompting speculation the French company could be an acquisition target.
Reuters - Ubisoft and U.S. giant Electronic Arts
are holding talks two months after Ubisoft dismissed EA’s
acquisition of a near-20 percent stake in the French video game
maker as “hostile,” the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.
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