KUALA LUMPUR (The Straits Times): Former bank officer Sri Devi Mani, 41, grew up in Selangor speaking her mother tongue Tamil, and now uses the language to create lessons for her Mandarin tuition ...

The government says more Mandarin speakers will help boost the economy Mandarin in English schools will get a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it by 2020, George Osborne has said on a ...

A PRIMARY school believes Mandarin is the language children need to learn to get on in life and is teaching it to pupils from the age of five. Did you know with a Digital subscription to Yorkshire ...

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Mandarin in English schools will get a £10m boost, and 5,000 more pupils will learn it by 2020, George Osborne has said on a visit to China. The cash will be used to recruit and train teachers to ...

Six schools in Northern Ireland are set to have lessons in Mandarin thanks to the arrival of three Chinese language assistants. St Joseph's PS, Crumlin; Rathmore Grammar School and Carr's Glenn PS in ...

Hundreds of languages are spoken across Asia but by far the most common is Mandarin. In fact, it is the most spoken language in the world and is replacing Japanese as the Asian language of business.

Pupils increasingly want to learn Mandarin – but the UK has only 100 people qualified to teach the language. Jeremy Sutcliffe visits a schools that's found a novel solution: lessons by video ...

The three-day visit by Chinese President Xi Jinping to the UAE is set to strengthen the bilateral relations between the two nations, expand business opportunities and tourism, which all will help ...

This afternoon more than a dozen Liberians are expected at the Samuel Doe sports stadium in the capital, Monrovia. In a makeshift classroom with some plastic chairs and a whiteboard their teacher, Li ...