An estimated 13,000 international students who do not already hold residence permits for Taiwan could be permitted to enter the country, government has suggested.

Taiwan has gifted the UCLA Asia Pacific Center and Harvard's Fairbank Center funding for Mandarin language learning and the study of Taiwan.

The US and Taiwan will expand opportunities for learning Mandarin and English as Chinese government programs come under suspicion.

The Chinese government has moved management of its overseas Confucius Institutes to an NGO to lessen the suspicion the centres have attracted over the last few years.

The Hanyu Shuiping Kaoshi exams taken by Mandarin learners to prove their language proficiency are set to be reformed, according to test organisers the Hanban.

The way I built LTL was to teach Chinese the way I wished I had studied it

International schools in Cambodia are missing out on a potential new market by not offering trilingual programs in English, Mandarin and the local Khmer language.

According to MP Chris Bowen, out of 25 million Australians, only 130 of non-Chinese heritage can speak Mandarin at a level good enough to do business.