BISHKEK/URUMQI -- Bursts of laughter erupted in a small classroom in Kyrgyzstan's eastern Karakol city as Aidai Kubanychbekova and several children practiced oral Chinese, such as "I'll do my Chinese ...

Languages are either syllable-timed, where all the syllables in a word last for the same amount of time, even when syllables are stressed, or stress-timed, where stressed syllables are pronounced at ...

CHONGQING — The 2025 Belt and Road Initiative annual Chinese character release event took place on Sunday in Chongqing's Yongchuan district, where the character of the year — yong, meaning ...

Sometimes we contract groups of words to make them shorter and to make the sentence more efficient. For example 'I am' becomes 'I'm'. They can help us speak a bit faster and more fluently. Conditional ...

An energetic 60-year-old man from eastern China with an appetite for confounding age stereotypes has gone viral after becoming a university student and taking part in military training. Having taken ...

An AI chatbot developed by TikTok's parent company, ByteDance, is now more popular than DeepSeek. The feat proves that ...

Sept 26 (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday rejected a bid by China-based DJI, the world's largest drone maker, to be removed from the U.S. Defense Department’s list of companies allegedly working with ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. Elon Musk’s SpaceX has taken money directly from Chinese ...

Shares of Nio Inc. took a dive Wednesday after the China-based electric-vehicle maker sold $1 billion worth of stock to the public in an effort to raise money so it can develop new models amid ...

Dessein recalled with a smile what it was like to embark on Chinese studies at that time. "In the early 1980s, learning Chinese was very much ... Yet for Dessein, every character he traced, every text ...

Today, there are 300 children in Chinese orphanages who aren’t supposed to be there, and our daughter is one of them. My husband, JD, and I always knew we wanted to adopt. In 2019, we were finally ...

Hikers caught in a shock blizzard near Mount Everest have spoken of experiencing hypothermia as they battled relentless snowfall, while rescuers continue to evacuate scores of people. At least one ...