A Hong Kong lawyer says it’s likely that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) will ban the Cantonese language in the near future. Speaking at a book launch event in Toronto on Nov. 25, Joy Luk, the first and only visually impaired lawyer in Hong Kong, said Beijing intends to “destroy the language and culture” of…

Every week, a selection of three artworks by Marcello Barenghi! I started on YouTube with some drawings like these, very simple, to be solved in a few hours. In this video: ladybug, medieval helmet, and mandarin orange! Credit: Marcello Barenghi (facebook.com/MarcelloBarenghi) * Click the “Save” button below the video to access it later on “My…

BEIJING—The Chinese regime is launching an aggressive campaign to promote Mandarin, saying 85 percent of its citizens will use the national language by 2025. The move appears to put threatened Chinese regional dialects such as Cantonese and Hokkien under even greater pressure, along with minority languages such as Tibetan, Mongolian, and Uyghur. The order issued…