In 1935, a group of left-wing students in Shanghai warned that ongoing efforts to reform the Chinese language and make it ...

Hollywood icon Kurt Russell takes on the role of Preston Clyburn, the family's patriarch and Michelle Pfeiffer's on-screen ...

The law mandates Mandarin as the basic language of instruction from kindergarten through high school across the country and also requires Mandarin for all government and official business.

BEIJING — China passed on Thursday a law on a “shared” national identity among the country’s 55 ethnic minority groups, a move critics say will further erode the identity of people who are not ...

New legislation formalises Mandarin as dominant language, grants sweeping powers to curb minority cultural expression — and reaches beyond China's borders ...

They might be known for their bleach-blond bonding ritual, but this year, something deeper is bonding Team Rubio at the WBC.

The Iran National Animation Center has issued a nationwide call for the production of short animated works under the title "Steadfast Iran".

Filmed in Glenarm in Co Antrim, it was written by Belfast-based Sarah Gordon and director Damian McCann ...

By any reasonable measure, the past two weeks have not gone according to plan in Washington or Tel Aviv. When Donald Trump remarked in a recent interview that regime change in Iran “is not going to ...

The state-controlled media in Cuba has described the recent demonstrations in Morón, Ciego de Ávila, as mere "vandalism" and a "disorder" caused by a ...

Do all Indian languages share a Sanskrit origin? The Bharatiya Bhasha Parivar theory says yes. This critique examines its ...