A lawmaker in the Philippines is pushing for measures that will promote the learning of Mandarin among Filipino students to make them more attractive to employers abroad. “We already have the edge ...

Very often, such stories suggest that increased attention to English is the major cause of the deterioration of Chinese language skills. Indeed, this anxious refrain recurs frequently enough that many ...

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts Mandarin and Arabic often ...

Move over, English. In Hong Kong, Mandarin is fast emerging as a new lingua franca. Fresh on the heels of a fracas between Hong Kongers and mainland Chinese ignited in part by controversies over ...