Austronesian' — the term that appears in textbooks, classrooms, the Matatag curriculum, social media, and research — is not a ...

TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Small Island Big Song (小島大歌) is a successful music and film project that connects with Austronesian culture by working with hundreds of famous musicians from 16 island countries ...

Complex genetic data now confirms that mitochondrial DNA found in Pacific islanders was present in Island Southeast Asia at a much earlier period. The languages known as Austronesian are spoken by ...

Isidore Dyen, an emeritus professor of linguistics at Yale who is known for his seminal work on Austronesian languages and Proto-Austronesian (the ancestral language of languages from Indonesia to ...

Chinese archaeologists uncovered a 7,300-year-old civilisation on Pingtan island, off the coast of Fujian province in southeastern China, that indicates the island could have been an originating ...

With its wealth of artifacts shining a light on the long history of the Austronesian language family, the new Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province has garnered widespread ...

The 27-bp deletion in the erythrocyte band 3 gene (B3Δ27) constitutes a genetic basis for Southeast Asian and Melanesian ovalocytosis. The distribution of B3Δ27 has been interpreted to reflect malaria ...

The Assembly of Austronesian Leaders opened in Taipei yesterday with about 100 delegates from 13 countries participating. President Chen Shui-bian (陳水扁) offered his greetings in a speech to the ...