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Cebu hosts ESL fam tour; DOT 7 to tap new ESL markets

Sun Star 19 Apr 2024

CEBU welcomed over 100 international education agents from five Asian countries for a five-day ESL (English as Second Language) familiarization tour in the province.

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Despite ‘model minority’ trope, 1 in 10 Asian Americans live in poverty

News India Times 18 Apr 2024

When the Office of Management and Budget recently announced it was adding new racial and ethnic categories to the Census for the first time in 27 years, large Asian American advocacy groups rejoiced.

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UN Chinese Language Day celebrated in Tunisia

People Daily 18 Apr 2024

The event gathered Chinese culture enthusiasts, interested locals, and students studying the Chinese language at Carthage University, providing a chance for Tunisians to gain a deeper understanding of the Asian country.

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Professor who Columbia president said was ‘spoken to’ for calling Hamas invasion ‘astounding’ says he ...

CNN 18 Apr 2024

When asked at the hearing if Massad, a tenured professor, faced any disciplinary action, Shafik responded he had been “spoken to” by the head of his department of Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies and his dean.

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Here are the top 7 things to do in Austin this weekend

Culture Map 18 Apr 2024

The springtime festival season is in full bloom, and these happenings are proof of a social calendar teeming with possibility ... The event features more than 30 international films that showcase South Asian stories, screening in more than 17 languages.

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Al-Quds Day at Harvard

The Harvard Crimson 16 Apr 2024

Espada ’96, an employee of the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, wrote on X, “How about instead of saying Zionists are abetting genocide we use their own preferred terminology and ...

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Nations seek ‘sovereign AI’ in global tech race

Taipei Times 15 Apr 2024

... but also using AI to protect and expand a nation’s culture, language and knowledge, Huang said ... Singapore has partnered with Nvidia to build its Sea-Lion (Southeast Asian Languages in One Network) LLM.

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Congratulations, democracy

Korea Times 15 Apr 2024

By Mark Peterson. Congratulations, Korea, on another display of democracy with your recent elections ... Grant ... Mark Peterson (markpeterson@byu.edu) is a professor emeritus of Korean, Asian and Near Eastern languages at Brigham Young University in Utah . .

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The AI That Could Heal a Divided Internet

Time Magazine 15 Apr 2024

The breakthrough was made possible by recent advances in large language models (LLMs), the type of AI that underpins chatbots like ChatGPT ... The tool breaks when confronted with a slur that is commonly directed at South Asians in the U.K.

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A distinctive feature of Asian Englishes: Particles lah!

The Manila Times 13 Apr 2024

My collaborator Umberto Ansaldo and I have regularly emphasized how particles from Asian language typologies are ubiquitous and robust features of those contact varieties of Englishes ... or language.

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Color system, core graphics, sports pictograms unveiled for 9th Asian Winter Games

Xinhua 13 Apr 2024

HARBIN, April 13 (Xinhua) -- With 300 days to go until the opening of the 9th Asian Winter Games in Harbin, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, the color system, core graphics and sports pictograms for the Games were released on Saturday.

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SPEAK UP: Eid al-Fitr, Water Festival celebrations to take place (2/2) 開齋節、潑水節齊登場（下）

Taipei Times 11 Apr 2024

Language Tip. Water Festival The New Year’s celebrations that take place in Southeast Asian nations such as Thailand, Laos, Myanmar and Cambodia, as well as among the Dai people of China, and the southern parts of Vietnam ... .

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China not to blame for prices

China Daily 11 Apr 2024

... excluded from the US currently," said Wang Xin, associate professor of China Studies and director of Asian Studies in the department of languages and cultures at Baylor University in the US.

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‘Rohingya’ a powerful word that many in Myanmar fear

Arab News 10 Apr 2024

The “Classical Journal of 1811” has a comparative list of numbers in many East and Central Asian languages, identifying three spoken in the “Burmah Empire” and distinguishing between the Rohingya and ...

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Why Democrats are losing Asian Americans

The Hill 09 Apr 2024

The Biden administration can point to initiatives such as a webpage for reporting anti-Asian hate, improved data collection on Asian Americans to support better analysis and more informed policies, and federal agencies’ expanded language access.