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Jon Watts
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Nushu, the secret women’s script of the Yao minority in China, was widely declared extinct last year, when its most famous user, Yang Huangyi died aged 92. But obituaries for the…
China’s party people
For more than a week after the closing ceremony in Athens the Olympic party was still going strong in China. Celebrations for the country’s record-breaking medal haul were in…
Marks boost for non-mother-tongue matrics
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.30pm. MATRICULATION students whose mother tongue is an African language will have their examination results adjusted upwards to…