The Hakka Affairs Council on Tuesday said it has restructured its organization to create a new Department of Language Development dedicated to promoting the Hakka language. The promotion and revival ...

Hsu Wan-ling (徐婉綾), 23, sits at the front desk of a veterinary clinic in Miaoli County, keeping a watchful eye on several dogs. An elderly woman walks in with her small dog on a leash. Like 62.2 ...

Taiwan is an island about the size of Kyushu, but linguistically it is extremely diverse. Nowadays, roughly speaking, people use either Chinese languages or Austronesian languages. The Austronesian ...

TAIPEI: The Legislative Yuan passed a law yesterday to regulate Hakka affairs, allowing the administration to use public resources in an ambitious plan to turn Taiwan into a global Hakka culture ...

TAIPEI — Niche programming is always tricky — and even more so when you’re trying to cater for an ethnic group whose language is in danger of disappearing as a spoken tongue. But that is the task that ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Taiwan has released its first set of Hakka lift-the-flap books for infants and toddlers, aiming to spark early interest in the language and support family-centered learning. At ...

When Lau Chun-fat returned after eight years in Germany to live in the New Territories village where he grew up, he was shocked to find none of the children spoke Hakka any more. The language of the ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Miaoli held its first Hakka storytelling competition at West Lake Resortopia in Sanyi Township on Monday. The event attracted 142 teams and 180 participants from the county, per ...

Members of the Jing Sheng Opera onstage during the first day of the Hakka Festival at the Yimin temple in Taoyuan. (AFP pic) Dressed in a robe fringed with beaded tassels, traditional Taiwanese opera ...

The Tam Kung temple on Government Street, the oldest operating Chinese temple in the country, is a point of pride for Victoria’s Chinatown and the city. But less is known about the Hakka people who ...

TAOYUAN (TAIWAN) - Dressed in a robe fringed with beaded tassels, traditional Taiwanese opera singer Jen Chieh-li applies the final touches to her heavily painted face as she prepares to take the ...