ChinesePod Today: Shares Slide for Germany’s Bayer after Roundup Ruling (simp. characters)
- 5 years ago
ChinesePod News (March 21, 2019)
A US jury has ruled that the glyphosate-based weed-killing agent Roundup contributed to a California man’s cancer. Following the announcement, shares of the German chemical company Bayer dropped 12 percent. Bayer acquired Roundup manufacturer Monsanto last year for $63 billion.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/GW2HJNt-T-U
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
除草剂: herbicide
致癌: to cause cancer
重挫: to plummet
专利: patent
过期: to have expired
市面: market conditions
尔后: subsequently
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A US jury has ruled that the glyphosate-based weed-killing agent Roundup contributed to a California man’s cancer. Following the announcement, shares of the German chemical company Bayer dropped 12 percent. Bayer acquired Roundup manufacturer Monsanto last year for $63 billion.
NOTE: This video features SIMPLIFIED characters, which are used in Mainland China. For viewers studying the form of written Chinese used in Hong Kong and Taiwan (traditional), the traditional-character version of this story (alongside all others of ChinesePod Today) is available at https://youtu.be/GW2HJNt-T-U
This ChinesePod Today news broadcast includes the following vocabulary:
除草剂: herbicide
致癌: to cause cancer
重挫: to plummet
专利: patent
过期: to have expired
市面: market conditions
尔后: subsequently
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