Their painted faces belie the focus in their eyes. Sleeves flicking, heads tilting, the young Cantonese opera stars revel in applause. But these are no professionals – they are students of the Cha Duk ...

Offering Cantonese Opera as an optional subject in primary and secondary school curricula has been only partially successful.

Early this month, Hong Kong’s Education Bureau deleted an article from their website after it exposed a legal grey area inhabited by spoken language and attracted much criticism from locals. The ...

Demand for Cantonese-dubbed versions of English-language films is on the rise, dealing a blow to a government push for young people to pick up English from daily life. Recent box-office records showed ...

BEIJING Protests over land grabs, industrial pollution and poor work conditions often rattle the Chinese authorities. Now add to that outrage over language policy. More than 1,000 people gathered ...