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

• 25 августа 2016, 17:19

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

• 09 сентября 2015, 16:05

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

• 13 мая 2015, 01:11

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

• 28 апреля 2015, 22:32

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.

• 11 марта 2015, 23:37

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.

• 10 марта 2015, 20:13

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

• 07 марта 2015, 19:08

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

• 26 февраля 2015, 13:31

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.

• 18 ноября 2014, 12:45

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.

• 08 ноября 2014, 12:10

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.

• 03 ноября 2014, 14:37

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

• 04 октября 2014, 15:22

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

• 10 сентября 2014, 19:23

Economic prosperity is the worst enemy of minority languages.

• 03 сентября 2014, 12:50

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

• 25 августа 2014, 12:58

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

• 25 августа 2014, 11:51

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.

• 17 мая 2014, 17:41

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.

• 11 марта 2014, 17:16

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

• 07 марта 2014, 16:38

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

• 13 февраля 2014, 11:51