KOTA KINABALU: Basic Mandarin language classes are ongoing for frontliners of the Sandakan and Tawau airports to ease the difficulty in communication experienced by tourists, particularly those from ...

The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer Basic Mandarin Chinese this fall as a six-week, noncredit course. The course, focusing on spoken Chinese, will meet from 7 to 9 p.m. every Thursday night ...

Staff at an upmarket department store are being taught Mandarin so they can serve designer-mad Chinese shoppers. Language tutors are giving assistants at Selfridges in Manchester city centre a crash ...

We join Tonia Couch and Tom Daley at a training session with their Chinese coach Li Peng. Tonia tells us about her visit to and successes at the Beijing Olympics in 2008 and the importance of language ...