Music is bridging the gap across the Taiwan Strait, as singers from both the Chinese mainland and Taiwan sing songs in Hokkien — the shared dialect of people in southern Fujian province and Taiwan.

GEORGE TOWN: Lau Wan Yin does not speak Hokkien but she beat 49 others to win an international Taiwanese singing competition that was held using the Chinese dialect. Wan Yin, 12, who triumphed in the ...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - The front row at the getai concert, a Chinese musical show, was empty. But this was not for lack of popularity -- the seats were reserved for ghosts. Getai, a traditional ...

What is the Singaporean Chinese identity? Leave it to Annette Lee and Benjamin Kheng to figure it out. To sum it up in a nutshell, "We need hanyu pinyin to read Chinese characters — that type of ...

SINGAPORE - The Feb 15 event at Safra Jurong, which has been linked to 21 cases of Covid-19 so far, was a Chinese New Year celebration attended by members of a Hokkien singing group. According to the ...

A group of college students in Shanghai have translated over 60 Chinese song lyrics into English in order to help foreigners better understand and appreciate local music. The team, named MelodyC2E ...