On June 16th-19th, 2008, for the first time, the International Chamber of Commerce presented a senior training program for international commercial arbitration in Spanish and Portuguese at its headquarters in Paris. 50 students from 14 countries attended this program and gave it very high praise. (Source: ICC website http://www.iccwbo.org/iccccgje/index.html)

　　The ICC Commission on Intellectual Property Rights translated the 9th version of “Roadmap on current and emerging IP issues” into the languages of Chinese, Arabic, Spanish and Portuguese and placed them on its website. Today, as intellectual property right issues become more and more important, this action by the ICC will help to broaden the understanding of intellectual property across the world. (Source: ICC website http://www.iccwbo.org/policy/ip/id3060/index.html)

(Chen Xi)