Making matters worse, Tam’s preference for speaking Mandarin Chinese over English is also ... or even a first name. Interestingly enough, the surname Tam is Cantonese in origin, and in Mandarin ...

The reason for such stark differences is that translations of foreign names are based on Chinese characters, which are words, not letters. As a result, when you write a foreign name in Chinese ...

Two hundred members of a Chinese family are reportedly changing surname because the character used to write it is so rare computers do not recognise it. Computer coding systems convert most ...

politicians have long taken a second name in Chinese characters. And any serious candidate knows to order campaign materials in English and in Chinese. But the city’s leniency for adopted names ...