TUTORS will be sent to Taiwan to learn how to preserve the Hakka language in an effort to prevent the decline of the dialect among the younger generation. Johor Baru Hakka Association chairman Chong ...

Taiwan is an island about the size of Kyushu, but linguistically it is extremely diverse. Nowadays, roughly speaking, people use either Chinese languages or Austronesian languages. The Austronesian ...

TAIPEI — Niche programming is always tricky — and even more so when you’re trying to cater for an ethnic group whose language is in danger of disappearing as a spoken tongue. But that is the task that ...

Longyan city in Fujian province is famed for being the home of the Hakka people in China, with 75 percent of the population of Hakka descent. Changting is also known as another home of the Hakka, and ...

The 34-year-old is a member of Jing Sheng Opera, one of a handful of troupes in Taiwan still staging traditional dramas in the Hakka language -- a dialect that is not widely spoken on the island ...