| USS Washington stays out of Yellow Sea |
因中國強烈反對 美航母退出黃海軍演 |
| The US made an apparent climb-down on its naval drill plans by deploying its aircraft carrier, USS George Washington, in the Sea of Japan, instead of in the Yellow Sea west of South Korea, following objections from China. Ralph Cossa, president of the Pacific Forum Center for Strategic and International Studies, said the move could present problems for the US and said that its military should at least assert a presence in the Yellow Sea by conducting a port call at Incheon on South Korea's west coast. |
因為中國強烈反對，美國在即將進行的黃海軍演計劃方面作出了明顯讓步，將航母喬治·華盛頓號部署到了日本海，而不是原先計劃的韓國以西的黃海海域。美國智庫戰略和國際研究中心太平洋論壇主席拉爾夫·科薩稱，這一部署會帶來問題，他還稱，美軍至少需要通過訪問韓國西海岸仁川港來強調在黃海海域的作用。 |
| Competition drives up price of wheat |
競爭導致小麥價格上漲 |
| Despite a good wheat harvest in China this summer, the price of wheat has increased sharply. Analysts agreed fierce competition has raised the price. In China's market, Chinese state-owned purchasers, such as China National Cereals, Oils and Foodstuffs Corporation (COFCO) and China Grains & Logistics Corporation, compete with powerful foreign competitors, such as Singapore's Wilmar International Limited. Analysts expect the purchase price to gain in the second half of the year, but they said it will gradually become stable as supply grows. |
雖然今年的夏小麥獲得了大豐收，但是小麥的收購價格卻上漲了不少。分析人士普遍認為，激烈的競爭導致了價格上漲。在中國市場，中國糧油食品(集團)有限公司、中國華糧物流集團等國資巨頭和像新加坡豐益國際有限公司這樣的外商爭奪地盤。市場人士分析認為，今年下半年糧價可能繼續上漲，但隨著糧食供應量增加，糧價會逐漸趨穩。 |
| Amazon: E-book sales outstrip real books |
亞馬遜電子書銷量首超實體書 |
| Sales of digital e-books have outstripped real books for the first time, according to Amazon. Amazon.com announced Monday that it has sold 143 e-books for its Kindle e-reader for every 100 hardcover books over the past three months. And last month, the gap grew to 180 e-books for every 100 hardcovers. Amazon sold more than three times as many Kindle books in the first half of 2010 as in the first half of 2009, the firm said. Amazon's Kindle bookstore now offers more than 630,000 books as well as over 1.8 million free, out-of-copyright titles. |
亞馬遜公司周一宣布，其第二季度的電子書與精裝書銷售比為143：100，電子書銷量首超實體書，上個月這個銷售比還擴大為180：100。另外，該公司今年上半年電子書銷售量比去年同期增長了3倍。目前亞馬遜的電子書店有超過63萬本書籍出售，還有180萬本過了版權期限的免費書籍。 |
| Google pulls plug on Chinese sites |
谷歌不再支持中國網站 |
| Google Tuesday announced on its Chinese-language site that it is to shut down a website ranking page and a lifestyle site, both based in China. The company said the decision was made because of "lower-than-expected demand". Google will also discontinue technical support for two services of its local partner Tianya.cn this week, the firm said. |
周二，谷歌在其中文網站上宣布將關閉其在華自主開發的一個網站排行頁和一個生活時尚網。之所以做出此決定是因為它們“沒有受到中國用戶的廣泛歡迎”。另外，谷歌表示，還將于本周停止對合作伙伴“天涯”社區的兩項服務提供技術支持。 |
| Lightning hits plane |
廈門飛濟南航班遭雷擊后迫降 |
| Shandong Air flight SC4981 from Xiamen to Jinan was struck by lightning on Monday night and forced to land at Linyi City airport, 300 kilometers from Shandong provincial capital Jinan, Qilu Evening News reported yesterday. The cockpit suffered cracks and lost pressure but no injuries were reported. |
據《齊魯晚報》昨天報道，周一晚上，山東航空由廈門飛往濟南的SC4981次航班遭遇雷擊，被迫降落在距濟南300公里左右的臨沂機場。雷擊造成駕駛艙前玻璃出現裂縫，導致駕駛艙失壓，但無人員傷亡。 |
