Early this month, Hong Kong’s Education Bureau deleted an article from their website after it exposed a legal grey area inhabited by spoken language and attracted much criticism from locals. The ...

What does it mean to learn the Chinese language? Schools across the globe have generally presumed a consistent, straightforward answer to this question: it would mean learning standard Mandarin, ...

Reporting from Beijing — In Guangzhou, the city formerly known as Canton, Chinese government banners hang in primary schools with instructions to use the country’s official language, Mandarin, also ...

In unraveling his family history, writer William Poy Lee had no idea he’d wind up making a declaration of respectability for Toisanese across the America. Yet there he was on stage, in the hoity-toity ...

Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo, who speaks multiple Chinese dialects, attending the SG60 Neighbourhood Party on April 19. - ST SINGAPORE: Over a bowl of Teochew ...

The Year of the Horse 2026 will be welcomed across China with blessings for money, health and more. Here are common ones and their meanings From auspicious horse-themed phrases and couplets to whether ...