KUALA LUMPUR, Jan 11 (Bernama) -- Efforts to strengthen the position of the Malay language and culture as the core of the national identity will continue to be strengthened through the establishment ...

Illustration by Lam Yik Chun. Over the last two decades of using text messaging, I’ve come to believe that the 10th circle of hell comprises people who use ‘jelak’ without knowing its proper spelling, ...

Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yakoob's proposal to use Malay as the second language after English in ASEAN received a lukewarm response from Indonesia for a few reasons, including the ...

Geographically, Malaysia is situated within the vast stretch of the Malay Archipelago, the lingua franca of which is mainly the Malay language and its other acceptable variants. Every nation, for that ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia will discuss with regional leaders to make Bahasa Melayu or Malay as the second language of Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), said Prime Minister Ismail Sabri ...

SINGAPORE - Malay language teacher Siti Rohani Selamat, 35, has tried to incorporate technology and gaming elements into her lessons to make learning the Malay language and about the culture more ...

KUALA LUMPUR: Proficiency in the Malay language remains a requirement for anyone applying for Malaysian citizenship as provided in the Federal Constitution. Deputy Home Minister Datuk Seri Dr Shamsul ...

Professor Awang Sariyan is one of Malaysia's top language experts, being recently appointed as the Honorary Advisor of the Malay Chinese Studies Centre at Beijing Foreign Studies University. (Photo: ...

The prime minister recently lamented about how Malaysians, even the GLCs, use English rather than Malay for everything, even housing development names. As I sit here in my house in Taman Sonnet ...

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