This means there are seven ways to pronounce the same Chinese words. The seven Chinese dialects spoken here are Cantonese, Teochew, Hokkien, Hakka, Hainanese and Guangxi, dialects spoken in ...

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian and Uighur.

The country’s manpower minister had used a Hong Kong film anecdote to rebuff an opposition member pressing for employment figures.