BEIJING (Reuters) - China's air force has released a propaganda film dubbed into Hokkien, a language strongly identified with Taiwan's pro-independence movement, showing bomber aircraft which have ...

Opera - from Italy to France to Russia to the New World, audiences experience war and love and betrayal and more, all grandly spilled across the stage. Opera is particularly loved in Taiwan, where ...

TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan celebrated linguistic diversity at the Golden Melody Awards late Saturday with big wins for singers who primarily sing in Mandarin, at one of the most prestigious ...

Most artificial intelligence translation to date has been focused on written languages because that is the easiest way to train machine learning systems to understand and translate them. However, more ...

The 2025 World Hokkien Golden Melody Awards, the world's largest Hokkien language music gala, concluded on Saturday in Xiamen, Southeastern China's Fujian province, celebrating the rich cultural ...

PINGTUNG, Taiwan – In the sweltering heat, actors for the Shenhsien Opera Troupe lacquer their lips with vermillion rouge and shrug on magenta satin robes, while the director barks out a rapid patter ...

Music is a big part of Taiwan's culture. The island even has its own special type of opera. In one temple, a small theater troupe is preparing a special performance — just for the gods. Music is a big ...

Wow! Your child understands and speaks Taiwanese? That’s amazing! Whenever I am in a taxi in Taiwan and speak to my parents in broken Taiwanese, the taxi drivers always react to my little ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — The 22nd International Linguistics Olympiad got underway at National Taiwan University on Monday. During the opening ceremony, Deputy Education Minister Chu Chun-chang (朱俊彰) ...

Taiwan opera is revered across the Asian island. One of its most beloved traits is its gender-bending character archetypes, and its best-known actors are women who portray men. Opera - from Italy to ...