安沙瑞X 獎

[yonglan]

I mentioned (via email) the Ansari X Prize to a Taiwanese friend, who has a Ph. D. in engineering and is generally up to date in all things scientific and technological, and he asked what is that? So I went to search in Chinese (baidu, yahoo.com.tw, and Google HK) and could only get old stories. I don't check the papers regularly, so could someone tell me if the Chinese language papers (in Taiwan, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore) missed this? Can't be, but web searches for 安沙瑞X 獎 or just X 獎 turn up nothing new (October 4th new) in Chinese on the aforementioned Chinese language search engines.

[skylee]

You mean reports like these? (Try to search "Ansari X" with the double quotation marks.) The common translation of the award seems to be "安薩里X獎".

Ming Pao (HK) -> 私營太空船舵手﹕太空總署已沒落 (6 Oct 04)

Epohtimes -> 首架民營太空船試飛成功 太空旅遊指日可待 (5 Oct)

中國經濟網 -> 美私营太空船5天内两发成功 夺千万元大奖 (5 Oct)

四川在線 -> 美私营太空船5天内两发成功 夺千万美元大奖 (5 Oct)

[yonglan]

Thanks. This is yet another instance where I find that the difference between simplified and traditional characters may not be such a big problem when compared to the difference between Chinese names for foreign things/people in Taiwan and China