BEIJING--China is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85 percent ... Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with ...

The 55-year-old businessman said he picked up Mandarin and Hokkien from his neighbours and friends at a very young age. “There are more Indians in the constituency now, but when I was growing up ...

Some historians say that the mandarin-tossing tradition likely began in Penang by the Hokkien Chinese during the early 19th century, and it was linked to romance. Young maidens back in the day ...

Though I speak, read and write Mandarin, I always firmly and loudly, but respectfully, answer in true blue Penang Hokkien ­whether it’s the coffee shop, wet market or shopping malls.

The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater ... said use of Mandarin, known in Chinese as “putonghua" or the “common tongue ...