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Toronto woman recalls when war came into her life

Jia Zhen Liao remembers the day she lost her family. “I was a young girl then and didn’t know what was happening,” she said. In the early 1940s, young village children in the Canton province of China spent their days playing, tending the crops or performing various chores.


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U of T research contributes to instant verbal translation

When Microsoft’s chief research officer took to the stage in Tianjin, China, last month, his language skills made an auditorium of hundreds of native Mandarin speakers applaud wildly. But he only spoke English at the conference. As he explained new developments in instantaneous translation and interpretation, Rick Rashid’s English spoken words were simultaneously translated robotically to Mandarin. The stunned crowd applauded the new computer system that can recognize human speech patterns, thanks to a U of T research team.



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Tatham leads Canada’s third quarter comeback at worlds

[audio:http://torontoobserver.ca/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/Nicole_CanadaChinaWomensBBall_podcast.mp3|titles=Nicole_CanadaChinaWomensBBall_podcast] After a blowout loss in their opening game of the FIBA women’s world championships, team Canada found themselves down a large margin once again. But this time, the Canadians came out of halftime with…


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China thumps Switzerland to win bronze

In their first Olympic games, China’s women’s curling team has impressed by picking up a bronze medal as they defeated Switzerland 12-6 at the Vancouver Olympic Centre on Friday. Two-time Olympic silver medalist Mirjam Ott…