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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shutterstock/weniliou The study of Indigenous languages spoken in maritime South-East Asia today has shed new light on the ...

New genetic research reveals the complex demographic history of Vanuatu, explaining how Austronesian languages were retained throughout its history despite near-total replacement of early Austronesian ...

Featuring artifacts that showcase the cultural and lifestyle heritage of Austronesian-speaking peoples, the Keqiutou Site Museum in Pingtan, East China's Fujian Province, recently added a total of 103 ...

The Austronesian Expansion, which began around 5,500 years ago likely in modern-day Taiwan, was the most geographically extensive dispersal of farming peoples in prehistory, ultimately carrying people ...

The annual Austronesian Forum was held in Taipei on Tuesday, focusing on traditional social and leadership structures in Austronesian cultures. Originally scheduled to be held in the Marshall Islands, ...

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 ...

The plate-unveiling ceremony of the International Research Center for Austronesian Archaeology, was held in Pingtan in East China's Fujian province on Nov 7. The research center, the first of its kind ...