Chirac's New TV Network Aims to Project French Language, Clout Bloomberg.com
Dec. 6 (Bloomberg) -- In 2002, as the U.S. drowned out French objections to the invasion of Iraq, President Jacques Chirac had an idea: create a global television channel to promote the Gallic point of view.
In French-Speaking Canada, the Sacred Is Also Profane Washington Post
MONTREAL -- "Oh, tabernacle!" The man swore in French as a car splashed through a puddle, sending water onto his pants. He could never be quoted in the papers here. It is too profane.
France to Launch English-Language News Channel NPR
France has an answer for America's 24-hour news channels. The country is launching a TV-news service of its own. France 24 is a partnership between a commercial network and the state-run France Televisions. It'll feature two news channels, one in French, and the other primarily in English.
Egypt holds French, U.S. suspects in secret group Reuters via Yahoo! News
Egyptian police have arrested nine French people, an American and two Belgians on suspicion of forming a secret Islamist organization linked to "terrorist" groups abroad, the government said on Monday.
From Paris, with edge: French 'CNN' beams new view The Christian Science Monitor
The 24-hour news service aims to plunge viewers into regions and perspectives that get little air time elsewhere.
The value of learning a foreign language NorthJersey.com
AS I WRITE THIS, I am on a plane to France.
World powers fail to reach Iran accord AP via Yahoo! News
Six world powers made "substantive progress" but failed to reach an accord on a U.N. resolution to punish Iran for defying U.N. demands to halt its nuclear program, the French Foreign Ministry said after talks in Paris Tuesday.
Language crisis facing UK schools Guardian Unlimited
Teenagers at a school in Manchester were overjoyed when they were told they could drop French this year. Out of 100 pupils just 15 signed up for the GCSE. So few showed an interest in German that the school decided not to offer it at all.
Canada-Japan Literary Awards go to John F. Howes and Denis Thériault Government of Canada News
The Canada Council for the Arts announced today the names of the winners of the 2006 Canada-Japan Literary Awards. The English-language winning work is Japan's modern prophet: Uchimura Kanzô, 1861-1930, a biographyby John F. Howes, of Vancouver. The French-language winning work is Le facteur émotif, a novelby Denis Thériault, of Montreal.
Language crisis facing UK schools Guardian Unlimited
Ahead of a major report on foreign language teaching, academics demand new start for millions of children.

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