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The Chinese language law [a] [1] is the first specialized law on spoken and written language in China, adopted at the 18th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Ninth National People's Congress on October 31, 2000; it came into effect on January 1, 2001. The law stipulates the scope, norms and standards for the use of the country's common ...
The Guangdong National Language Regulations [1] are a set of laws enacted in 2012 by the Government of Guangdong to promote the use of Standard Chinese in broadcast and print media at the expense of the local varieties of Chinese—namely Cantonese, Hakka and Teochew.
A Hakka speaker, recorded in Taiwan.. Hakka (Chinese: 客家话; pinyin: Kèjiāhuà; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-va / Hak-kâ-fa, Chinese: 客家语; pinyin: Kèjiāyǔ; Pha̍k-fa-sṳ: Hak-kâ-ngî) forms a language group of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people in parts of Southern China, Taiwan, some diaspora areas of Southeast Asia and in overseas Chinese communities ...
In May 2015, China indefinitely blocked access to the Chinese-language Wikipedia. [36] In 2017, China discussed plans for its own version of Wikipedia. [37] [38] As of May 2019, all language versions of Wikipedia have been blocked by the Chinese government. [39]
Language restrictions were relaxed after 1987 with the lifting of martial law and ensuing democratic reforms. [8] In 2012, the ministry-level Hakka Affairs Council was established to stem the language's decline in Taiwan. [10] In December 2017, the Legislative Yuan designated Hakka as an official national language of Taiwan. [11]
In the spring of 1878, the city officially founded the San Antonio Volunteer Fire Department. [6] As the city of San Antonio continued to expand and grow, so did the volunteer fire companies. During the early 1880s, three new fire companies were established. The first was the Second Ward Hose Company which was founded on April 14, 1883.
The decline in Chinese government bond yields could also widen the interest rate spread between the US and China, causing money to flee the world’s second largest economy and heaping pressure on ...
Chinese citizens who also have foreign citizenship may declare a change of nationality at the Immigration Department of the respective SARs, and upon approval, would no longer be considered Chinese citizens. SAR permanent residents who are not Chinese citizens (including stateless persons) are not eligible for SAR passports. Persons who hold a ...