The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures offers multiple pathways for students to develop their knowledge of the vibrant cultures of China, Japan, and Korea. While developing linguistic and ...

January 8, 2026 - It's time for John Fensterwald's annual predictions for what's in store for education in 2026. It’s about to get easier to become a bilingual teacher in Vietnamese, Korean, Mandarin ...

A new research initiative is underway to build a large language model (LLM) that better meets the demographics of Southeast Asian nations. Dubbed the National Multimodal LLM Programme, the initiative ...

For writer and artist Trung Le Nguyen, sharing stories was always a way for his family to learn and grow together. Nguyen, who was born in a Vietnamese refugee camp in the Philippines, moved to the ...

Without exaggerating, 2021 was the year of the Russian language in relations between Central Asia and Russia. No other issue seemed to so consistently top bilateral diplomatic relations as much as the ...

Singapore has launched a S$70m (US$52m) initiative to build research and engineering capabilities in multimodal large language models (LLMs), including the development of Southeast Asia’s first LLM.

Australia is to invest an additional AUS$15.2 million in Asian language learning in its schools in the hope of dramatically increasing uptake in the next decade. The government says it will spend the ...

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