New figures released by the U.S. Census Bureau show that 22% of U.S. residents spoke a language other than English at home.

The islands of maritime Southeast Asia can range from the very large (for instance, Borneo, Sumatra, Java, Luzon) to tiny pinpoints on the map (Indonesia is said to ... Melaka was a key trading center ...

Learning Mandarin, however, was a challenge, she recalled, as the language was not a standard ... As China’s presence grows across Southeast Asia, local Chinese communities find themselves ...