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Heading Down Under where locals are "dry as a dead dingo's donger" and beachgoers don "budgie smugglers"?

Pakistan's Supreme Court has ordered the government to implement Urdu as the country's official language, replacing English in all communications.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev visited his homeland in Kaskelen district of Almaty oblast in Kazakhstan’s south, where he met with compatriots.

Writer Yuriy Serebryanskiy has become the winner of the Russian Award for the second time.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev spoke about five institutional reforms he envisions for Kazakhstan that would ensure its move towards a developed and harmonious society.

14 applications have been received by the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan ahead of the early presidential election in the country. There are two highlights this year: first ever female nominee and state language proficiency tests.

Kazakhstan’s President Nursultan Nazarbayev believes English should be made the prime language of instruction in high schools of Kazakhstan.

Google said that Gmail is now available in Burmese, marking the 74th language for the popular email service.

Babies adopted across international borders may not remember the language they heard in their first days, but the words leave a lasting mark on their minds.

Catalonia has promoted its language and popular culture since the 1980s, cultivating a sense that it is different from the rest of Spain which has now turned to separatism.

North and South Korea have never found dialogue easy, but academics from both sides currently meeting in Pyongyang are trying to steer things in the right direction.

Ukrainian President risked further angering the Kremlin by suggesting that English lessons replace Russian ones in schools.

Spanish regions began responding by launching intensive English "bilingual colleges".

Economic prosperity is the worst enemy of minority languages.

Kazakhstan might follow Ukraine’s scenario should it ban all the languages other than Kazakh: President Nazarbayev.

Throughout China, Mandarin -- known as Putonghua, the "common language", with its roots in Beijing's northern dialect -- is the medium of government.

The legendary interpreter who served as the English-language voice of every Soviet leader from Nikita Khrushchev to Mikhail Gorbachev has died in Moscow aged 81.

African elephants can differentiate between human languages and move away from those considered a threat, a skill they have honed to survive in the wild.

Kazakhstan has realised a set of animation movies based on Kazakh tales.

Microsoft on Wednesday denied censoring Chinese-language search results across the globe, but the group behind the accusation stood firm.
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