Mandarin
The term Mandarin is generally believed to be a translation of Chinese guanhua—literally "official talk," which originated as a form of common language among speakers of ...
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BEIJING, Oct 17 (Reuters) - China may have one official
national language -- Mandarin -- but as delegates at this
week's Communist Party Congress have shown, fluency and
accuracy remain distant go...
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VINA DEL MAR, Chile (Reuters) - Xiao Qiong, 28,
stares intently at a group of Chilean teenagers, smiles and
says with conviction: "Ni hao!" The disheveled boys and girls in front of her post
exagg...
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BEIJING, Nov 25 (Reuters) - Chinese media and Australian
neighbour Indonesia have welcomed the Labor Party victory that
has swept a conservative coalition from power in Canberra and
made former di...
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BEIJING, Dec 18 (Reuters) - China will next year survey the
thousands of dialects spoken in the country with an eye to
protecting ones which are threatened with extinction, a state
newspaper said ...
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Taipei (dpa) - Taiwan's Transport Ministry is urging the island's
six airlines to merge into two or three airlines to reduce losses
expected from the upcoming start of a hig...
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Japan urged the United States on Thursday to ease regulations on
mandarin oranges and other Japanese farm products under a plan to
boost Japanese farm exports 2.7-fold from 2006 to 1 trillion...
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Ten new hotels and six new restaurants have been added to the list of lodgings and eateries receiving AAA's highest rating, five diamonds.
The additions will be listed in the automobile as...
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We’re over global warming … It’s real and it’s getting on our noives—the ice caps disappearing and the polar bears having to just be called “bears,” yes, b...
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Taiwan is considering abandoning its long-standing policy of recognizing Mandarin Chinese as the island's only official language, the premier said Tuesday, in a move that would likely anger rival C...
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JACKETS• Tuxedo, aka tuxA tuxedo jacket falls into one of two categories:• Single-breasted: One strip of buttons, from one to four, down the front. P.S.: The more buttons, the mor...
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Mandarin
Words mangled, officials tongue-tied at China meet
