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 ...

The Hakka Affairs Council is tomorrow launching a nationwide series of public forums on legislation drafted to regulate the development of Hakka as a national language, it said on Friday. When the ...

TUTORS will be sent to Taiwan to learn how to preserve the Hakka language in an effort to prevent the decline of the dialect among the younger generation. Johor Baru Hakka Association chairman Chong ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 34-year-old is a member of Jing Sheng Opera, one of a handful of troupes in Taiwan still staging traditional dramas in the Hakka language -- a dialect that is not widely spoken on the island ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...