KOTA KINABALU: Negotiating skills can make or break a sale, more so if you can speak the language. In Sabah’s seafood and dive haven of Semporna, local traders have learned basic Mandarin with some ...

The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer Basic Mandarin Chinese this fall as a six-week, noncredit course. The course, focusing on spoken Chinese, will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday night ...