Cantonese kowtows to Mandarin as the people's language. Carson Hom's family has run a fortune cookie and almond cookie company in Los Angeles County for 35 years. For much of that time, the business ...

YESTERDAY'S post on Cantonese touched a few nerves. A blog post is a very compressed medium, and I said some things briefly that I still stand by but which deserve a bit of elaboration. My calling ...

So what is the problem that Cantonese speakers of Guangdong have that has not been voiced so strongly by speakers of other dialects? It has been suggested that whereas many speakers of other local ...

Cantonese, a southern Chinese dialect with a long history but an uncertain future in China, is being championed around the world in some surprising ways and some unlikely places. At Palacky University ...

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 ...

A calligraphy show is held in Yunnan Province to promote the simplified Chinese and Putonghua. Photo: IC Liu Qiling was outrageous when she read the news that Cantonese speaking and the writing of ...

Minister for Digital Development and Information Josephine Teo, who speaks multiple Chinese dialects, attending the SG60 Neighbourhood Party on April 19. Follow our live coverage here. SINGAPORE – ...

“The Guangdong provincial Government conducted an online survey and only 20 per cent of the interviewees supported this proposal. There are already dozens of CCTV channels and two or three regional ...

While the use of dialects in the country has been declining, a group of young Singaporeans are hoping to reverse the trend.

Cantonese-speaking livestreamers are accusing Douyin, ByteDance’s version of TikTok for the Chinese market, of prematurely cutting off their streams. The reason? The platform said it couldn’t ...