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 ...

Meaning "guest families", the Hakka (or Kejia in Putonghua) are a subgroup of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly in the provinces of Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and Taiwan. Their ancestors ...

Weiwu (self-encircling houses) scattered in Meizhou, Guangdong province, are one of the most visible examples of the Hakka way of living.[Photo by Huang Lingbo/for China Daily] The Hakka people were ...

Pingtung County’s National Neipu Senior Agricultural and Industrial Vocational High School last weekend hosted a meeting involving six schools and their programs for Hakka-language integration into ...

Less than 10 km east of Chengdu, capital city of Sichuan Province in southwestern China, there is a small town called Luodai. The town is famed as a Hakka culture town; not only the houses are in ...

The first official compendium on Hakka culture, the Hakka Culture Encyclopedia has finally been released after three years' compiling. According to Liu Weitao, vice president of Lingnan Hakka Culture ...

Visitors learning about Hakka culture during an outreach programme by the Johor Baru Hakka Association at Jalan Tan Hiok Nee, Johor Baru. TUTORS will be sent to Taiwan to learn how to preserve the ...

Avid scholar: Vollmann’s interest is piqued by how Hakka sounded so different from other local Chinese dialects. AN Austrian university professor is dedicating a large part of his research to studying ...

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 ...

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 ...