BEIJING: Compulsory foreign language lessons were "necessary" for pupils in China's primary and junior high schools, an education official said Tuesday. Sun Xiaobing, director of the policy and ...

I spent several years, and some of your tax dollars, trying to learn Chinese, so I need to say something about a new campaign to get that language into U.S. schools and colleges. The Asia Society just ...

With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi Arabian children now learning the language ...

A former senior education official has triggered heated debate after he publicly denounced the teaching of English to young children and called for more classes on Chinese traditional culture. Wang ...

Sixty-year-old Liu Zhang Fang cuts a curious figure sitting composed among the boys in blue — his legs folded, his face attesting vague passivity, his alert eyes monitoring every move, every ball — ...

Schools minister Nick Gibb hails controversial experiment as one of the most successful things the Department for Education has done A controversial government experiment introducing Chinese-style ...

Mandarin's entry into public schools is the latest sign of growing ties between Saudi Arabia and China — Fayez Nureldine With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser al-Shaalan ...

RIYADH-With a map of China on the wall behind him, 14-year-old Yasser Shaalan studied the names of professions in a Chinese textbook, one of thousands of Saudi children now learning the language at ...