BEIJING — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying that 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

BEIJING (AP) — China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85% of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional ...

SINGAPORE — The Tok and Teo families are a model of traditional harmony, with three generations gathered under one roof, enjoying each other’s company over slices of fruit and cups of tea on a ...

(Reuters) - China has been promoting Mandarin as the national language for decades to boost unity in a country with thousands of dialects and minority tongues. Here are some facts about language and ...

The 24-hour channel will feature Hokkien and Mandarin dramas and variety shows sourced from Taiwan and the region. It is also SingTel's first self-packaged channel. Goh Seow Eng, chief, digital home ...

Nearly half of the world’s roughly 7,000 known languages four in ten of them exist without an accompanying written component. These unwritten languages pose a unique problem for modern machine ...

Music is bridging the gap across the Taiwan Strait, as singers from both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan sing songs in Hokkien — the shared dialect of people in southern Fujian province and Taiwan.

The government will host a variety show the night before the Legislative Council elections in December, in a bid to ...