Four second-level students will be walking the Great Wall and speaking the native tongue in China over the next fortnight.

Nitrous oxide balloons no laughing matter

Irish students will attend marital arts and origami classes as part of one of the country’s largest ever student exchange trips to China.

A Rose with a passion for rowing has backed plans to set up a special rowing team in Cork for people diagnosed with or recovering from breast cancer.

With the second-largest economy due to outstrip the US by 2027, speaking Mandarin could become a necessity for our children, says Suzanne Harrington

A PRESTIGIOUS award bestowed upon University College Cork could help fund a dedicated centre for Chinese culture and language on campus.

The University of Ulster is to team up with a Chinese counterpart to promote the teaching of Mandarin in schools in the North, it has emerged.

THE local authority overseeing the controversial Irish Sky Garden is under fire again over plans to spend €50,000 on another garden.

UNIVERSITY College Cork (UCC) has been selected as Ireland’s University of the Year by the Sunday Times. The university last held this title in 2005.

THE Lord Mayor of Cork has criticised the Irish pavilion at the World Expo in Shanghai for failing to promote his city – the only Irish city twinned with the massive Chinese metropolis.

FIRST it was the Lonely Planet. Now Yahoo China has boosted Cork’s tourism stock even further.

Chinese deputy premier Zeng Peiyan will meet the President, the Taoiseach and the Tanaiste during a three-day visit to Ireland this week.