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Singaporeans feel sad about the decline of Chinese dialects in favour of Mandarin and English
MSN News· 5 days agoSINGAPORE: A Singaporean Redditor recently sparked a lively discussion online by asking the local...
Adopted Pakistani woman in China goes viral, hopes to buy parents a house
NextShark via Yahoo News· 7 days agoA Pakistani woman adopted by a Chinese couple as a child has seen her fame skyrocket after a video...
Sibling-owned San Francisco bookstore celebrates Asian American experience
Fox local via AOL· 6 days agoSisters Cynthia and Jennifer Huie, Chinese-Americans, co-own the store named On Waverly. They said they wanted a place for the community to... Friday night, the sisters hosted ...
‘Exotic’ Pakistani woman adopted by Chinese couple as baby dazzles mainlanders
South China Morning Post· 4 days agoThe couple brought her back to their hometown in a rural area of central China’s Henan province, and called her Fan Zihe, an auspicious name meaning “vigorous and long-lived”. Fan first attracted ...
Accents Are Emotional
The Atlantic· 21 hours agoTo a large degree, how we speak also reflects what we feel—especially, it seems, when it comes to regional accents. Take, for instance, the struggle of adult English speakers—like me—to properly ...
Actor "Sympathizer" Soldier Spy: How Australia's Hoa Xuande became the ultimate double agent
Salon via Yahoo News· 5 days ago(His Assistant Director thought Vietnamese was just another type of Chinese accent.) Here, the...
Opinion | End of war against property speculators marks new phase in China housing
South China Morning Post· 4 days agoPeople from Wenzhou, a port city in eastern Zhejiang province, who speak the same dialect and are...
Family documentary offers window into ordinary Shanghai life
China Daily· 1 day agos mother and her six siblings, averaging 77 years old. From childhood memories, education journeys, career paths and marriages, to residential relocations — the details of their life stories ...
Who are China’s ‘elderly drifters’? Seniors moving to join families, get lonely
South China Morning Post· 4 days agoJust under 70 per cent of such people relocate voluntarily to reunite with their families, the...