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Flood-related vocabulary (updated)
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» Fully updated with vocabulary from latest flooding reports and links to many flood stories covered previously.
Flood-related vocabulary: focus on pronunciation
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» It seems that floods have been in the news continuously for the past year. We’ve learned a lot of the vocabulary used to describe floods. Now let’s learn how to pronounce it.
civil servant
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» someone who works for a government department ข้าราชการ
Half of Swedish three-year-olds online: study
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Swedes are among the world's most connected people and are swarming to the Internet at an ever earlier age, a study published Wednesday showed, indicating that half of Swedish three-year-olds have been online.
Hewlett-Packard unveils its first "ultrabook" laptop
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Hewlett-Packard (HP) on Wednesday unveiled a lightweight laptop computer to take on Apple's MacBook Air in the hot "Ultrabook" arena.
Staggering surge in Android gadget viruses: Juniper
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» The arsenal of malicious code aimed at Android-powered gadgets has grown exponentially, with criminals hiding viruses in applications people download to devices, according to Juniper Networks.
Hollywood, Silicon Valley spar over online piracy bill
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» Hollywood sparred with Silicon Valley in the US Congress on Wednesday at a hearing on a controversial bill intended to crack down on online piracy.
Thaksin pardon, not floods, dominate news
Terry Fredrickson, Published on 17/11/2011
» For the first time in many weeks, politics overtook the floods in front page interest as a rumoured royal pardon for former PM Thaksin Shinawatra provoked an angry reaction.
Have a water crisis? Time to call the Dutch
Published on 17/11/2011
» With much of the country at or near sea level, the Netherlands has produced many water management experts. One of them is helping the Thai government tackle the flood crisis.
Swiss exhibition works to help information junkies
AFP, Published on 17/11/2011
» The Libyan war, the Greek debt crisis and the Dominique Strauss-Kahn scandal have all been rich fodder this year for news junkies -- but is today's information overload healthy?