The Confucius Institute at Purdue will offer "Basic Mandarin Chinese" this fall. The six-week, noncredit course will meet on every Wednesday night from 7 to 9 p.m. Sept. 18-Oct. 23 in Stanley Coulter ...

Staff at an upmarket department store are being taught Mandarin so they can serve designer-mad Chinese shoppers. Language tutors are giving assistants at Selfridges in Manchester city centre a ...