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News updates from April 11: ECB keeps interest rates on hold; OJ Simpson dies aged 76
US charges interpreter of baseball star Shohei Ohtani over $16mn bank fraud
...Shohei Ohtani’s former interpreter was charged with fraud by the US justice department and accused of wiring more than $16mn from the Los Angeles Dodgers baseball star’s bank account to pay off gambling...
April 11, 2024
Sport
NBA player gets lifetime ban for gambling on basketball games
...Last month, Major League Baseball initiated an investigation into star player Shohei Ohtani and his former translator, Ippei Mizuhara, amid allegations of illegal wagering....
April 17, 2024
FT Live
Business of Art
Market shifts and future growth
Monday, 7 October180 Studios, London, UK
Letter
Letter: Nixon’s translator took the diplomatic approach
...The US diplomat Chas W Freeman Jr was the interpreter between Zhou and Nixon and, in his 2013 book Interesting Times: China, America, and the Shifting Balance of Prestige, he reports that Nixon did not ask...
July 6, 2023
ReviewFiction
You Dreamed of Empires — a colonial encounter reimagined
...Malinalli’s fellow interpreter, Gerónimo de Aguilar, was a shipwrecked Andalucían friar who spoke Maya and Castilian: “he lived like a priest in every sense of the word....
January 4, 2024
War in Ukraine
Lost in translation: Germany’s challenges training Ukrainian soldiers
...Kyiv and western capitals are providing translators, who often struggle with the necessary vocabulary....
August 28, 2023
Inside Politics
Sunak must not avoid arguing with his party as his star plummets
...Things took a turn for the worse when the translator got to work on Khrushchev’s speech....
September 13, 2023
FT Live
Business of Football Summit
The global gathering of leaders in football and finance
Wednesday, 26 February 2025In-Person & Digital | London
ReviewThriller books
Thriller round-up — from the Gulag to Glasgow grit
...Interpreters, like waiters, are often little noticed. But they too have eyes and ears, and proximity to power means they can pick up all sorts of intelligence....
April 3, 2023
Xi Jinping
Spat with Trudeau upsets Xi’s choreographed return to limelight
...“In Canada we believe in free and open and frank dialogue, and we will continue to work constructively together,” replied Trudeau, who did not appear to be accompanied by any aides or a translator....
November 17, 2022
FT Magazine
Why a US-style megachurch is thriving in rural Northern Ireland
...It’s a scene that wouldn’t look out of place in America’s deep south. But we are not in Alabama....
July 8, 2023
Transcript
Bored at work? How AI could come to the rescue
...And then, you know, of course, since ChatGPT writes text and can translate as well, you’re looking at interpreters, translators and those of us who write for a living as well....
June 5, 2023
FT Magazine
Novelist Benjamin Markovits: what I learnt about power from a star team-mate
...The German word for interpreter is Dolmetscher, the sound of which sums up how I felt: dogged and modest. A grunt. A born number two. I already knew a bit about being a sidekick....
October 1, 2022
ReviewBooks
Dancing on Ropes by Anna Aslanyan — the joys and terrors of translation
...That’s the thrilling, rather chilling, message of this wonderful history by translator and interpreter Anna Aslanyan, who blesses jaw-dropping and entertaining tales with an insider’s insight....
August 12, 2021
Letter
Letter: Books in original language beat machine translations
...As a professional conference interpreter and translator, I would like to add another aspect to Simon Kuper’s article “The case for diving into another language” (Magazine, FT Weekend, April 24) Beyond simple...
May 19, 2021
Letter
Letter: Interpreters in Iraq have been shamefully treated
...These interpreters now live in fear of retribution from militias and they are not being given any help to resettle in the countries which, until recently, were grateful for their services....
January 4, 2021
Afghanistan
US and UK send troops to help evacuate embassies in Afghanistan
...One Whitehall official said fewer than 5,000 evacuees were expected, consisting of diplomatic personnel, UK nationals such as contractors and Afghan interpreters and staff who are eligible for resettlement...
August 13, 2021
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Chloe Cornish
Iraqi translators live in terror as the west withdraws
...An Iraqi interpreter for a rotating cast of British and American troops and security companies, his work in deadly conflicts has earned him commemorative pins, recommendation letters and distinctly English...
December 1, 2020
ReviewFiction
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri — language, liberation and loneliness
...Fearful of tinkering too much with the text, she passed the translation into English of In Other Words to Ann Goldstein, the brilliant translator of authors including Elena Ferrante and Primo Levi....
May 7, 2021
FirstFT
FirstFT: Today’s top stories
...Interpreters for a rotating cast of British and American troops and security companies live in terror of Iran-backed Shia militias....
December 2, 2020
Letter
Letter: California’s AB5 legislation threatens distinguished professions along with gig economy workers
...But not freelance translators and interpreters — distinguished professions that have existed for hundreds of years and play a vital role not only in a wide range of economic activities, but also in critical...
January 10, 2020
ReviewFiction
The Man Who Saw Everything by Deborah Levy — a day in the life
...He is assigned an interpreter, Walter, whose “eyes were on me all the time”....
August 16, 2019
World1 min
US security chief defends decision not to listen to Khashoggi audio
...I know, but a translator, you could hear the emotion, and a translator could help you understand what happened at that time to relate to the president of the United States and to convey to the world what...
November 28, 2018
US politics & policy
Trump accuses US intelligence of being ‘naive’ about Iran
...The only other American present was his wife Melania, and the interpreter was a Russian official....
January 30, 2019
ReviewFiction
China Dream by Ma Jian — a beautiful lie
...Ironically, the suppressing of one form of liberty has allowed his own freedom of expression to flourish — Ma is a far more explicit, and, for a man of famously tranquil demeanour, enraged interpreter of...
November 16, 2018
Life & Arts
Architect Itsuko Hasegawa: ‘I was told girls don’t go to technical universities’
...The translator looks nervous. “The purpose of life?” he asks tentatively. “There were all these people whose whole world was only architecture,” Hasegawa says....
July 13, 2018
World
Ukrainian interpreter who visited Downing Street arrested as spy
...Stanislav Yezhov, who served as deputy head of protocol meetings and translator for Mr Groysman, was detained late on Wednesday on charges of working for Moscow, a Ukrainian government official told local...
December 21, 2017

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