A Cantonese language advocacy group in Hong Kong stopped operations after local officials raided the family house of its chairman last week over an essay published three years ago. It’s the latest ...
HONG KONG – Hong Konger Jeffrey Wong started his Instagram account Jyuttoi in 2022, sharing interesting Cantonese idioms to help people pick up the language through casual conversation. Two years on, ...
A group founded to promote the use of Cantonese in Hong Kong has shut down after authorities raided its founder's family home last week. The government cited the controversial national security law ...
You wouldn’t know that Cantonese is under threat, judging from the food court of the Parker Place shopping mall in Richmond, B.C., the most ethnically Chinese city in the world outside Asia. All ...
“They say if you want to kill a city, you kill its language,” said Claudia Mo, Member of the Hong Kong Legislative Council, in a recent video for Vox Borders. Mo was referring to the fact that in ...
HONG KONG — Strung up in the Sunbeam Theatre in a gritty working-class part of this city are posters showing Cantonese opera singers, their red lips offset by chalk-white, made-up faces. In the faded ...
The Hong Kong Language Learning Association was founded in 2013 to "protect the language rights of the Hong Kong people". A group founded to promote the use of Cantonese in Hong Kong has shut down ...