AMMAN — In a quiet neighborhood north of the Jordanian capital Amman, Manal Al-Khammash sits with unwavering focus before a ...

Beyond the buzz over Teochew box-office hit Dear You, some Singaporeans are determined not to let dialects and heritage ...

At 73, retired nurse Kalsang Lhamo is learning to write the language she has spoken throughout her life. Her study of Tibetan ...

From a quiet modern home in Tokyo to The Odyssey's age-old concept of hospitality, here are seven stories from SCMP's recent reporting We have selected seven Lifestyle stories from the past seven days ...

The saga of the artifact displayed at Boston's Old South Meeting House demonstrates how the study of history evolves ...

Most Americans believe children in the United States should learn a second language, yet fewer than half of the country’s public schools actually offer world language classes, according to a new Pew ...

When MIT historian Tristan Brown first examined a Chinese tea chest label displayed as a relic of the Boston Tea Party, he had no reason to doubt its ...

The Potala Palace, one of Tibet’s most revered sites and once the winter residence of the Dalai Lamas, also had no public ...

A 73-year-old retired nurse's decision to learn to write Tibetan language offers a glimpse into how some embrace their ...

Cambodia’s continued crackdowns in Sihanoukville show the coastal “sin city” is still likely powered by the scam industry, observers said, despite mounting pressure on the government to eradicate the ...

Four-in-ten Americans say it is extremely or very important for children growing up in the U.S. to learn a language other than English.

This is the first article in a two-part series exploring how Chinese culinary terms came to be included in the Oxford English Dictionary (OED). For more than two decades, I have studied how Chinese ...