Zhou Ji (Zhōu Jì / 周济 / 周濟) is out, in a move that caught many by surprise. Under-fire education minister removed from post, China Daily, November 2, 2009 China Dismisses Its Minister of Education, New York Times, November 3, 2009 China’s...

Ethnic Uzbeks in southern Kyrgyzstan are reportedly suffering from problems with the education system, including that Uzbekistan has switched to the Latin alphabet but Kyrgyzstan has not. Kyrgyzstan is home to more than 766,000 ethnic Uzbeks out of...

Street signs in Taipei County are beginning to be changed to Hanyu Pinyin. For Pinyin supporters here, this is a long-awaited development. Here’s an example of a new sign in Banqiao, the seat of the Taipei County Government. This is just outside the...

Parts of Penang, Malaysia’s George Town are scheduled to get some new street signs that will include Chinese characters. (Penang has a high concentration of ethnic Chinese.) Controversy over whether to pick traditional Chinese characters or simplified...

I can’t believe I’ve been doing this so long…. And even at the age of five this blog is considerably younger than most of the rest of Pinyin.info, which I built largely by hand using a text editor. Oh, those were the days. Fortunately, I now have a...