Albert Wong had spent his whole life trying —and failing — to type Cantonese characters on a computer. But now, thanks to time allowed by Google’s 20-percent projects, some terrific teamwork and a ...

HONG KONG — I had always presumed that speaking to your child in your native tongue was the most natural thing in the world. Apparently not everyone thinks so. When we held a birthday party for our ...

[Gendou sighs and mutters to himself]<BR><BR>Starting Sunday, I'll be taking calls from Hong Kong. While we will have translator assistance, I have to conference them in.<BR>So I need to be able to ...

More than 9,000km away from Hong Kong, a 17-year-old British teenager – who has never been to Hong Kong or southern China – is on a mission to keep Cantonese alive, after having mastered the language ...

My mom always talks about Cantonese being my first language, but it’s hard to believe now that I can barely understand it. When she was 2 years old, my mom and her family immigrated to the United ...

Jenny Liao is relearning Cantonese after years of rejecting it, saying she was inspired by the sense of community that came as a result of anti-Asian hate crimes fueled by the pandemic. “As I relearn ...

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Three decades ago, finding opportunities to learn Cantonese in San Francisco wasn't hard. But today in the city that's drawn Cantonese speakers from South China for over 150 years ...

I am writing to express my disagreement with the policy of using Mandarin to teach Chinese (“Hong Kong education chief forced to clarify controversial comments about teaching Chinese language in ...