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 ...

The government is to require schoolchildren in areas where Hakka is widely spoken to learn the language as part of efforts to help the ethnic group preserve its mother tongue, President Tsai Ing-wen ...

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 — 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: 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 (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 ...

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 stage. The 34-year-old ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...