PUTRAJAYA — Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim clarified on Friday (June 14) that the government will not be employing English teachers from Singapore for Malaysian schools. Instead, he explained ...

One of the challenges ahead for Singapore is to decide whether to adopt British English or American English, said Singapore's former Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew on Tuesday afternoon. As he urged ...

SINGAPORE — For Dr Danica Salazar, world English editor at Oxford English Dictionary (OED), the Singaporean expression “blur like sotong” is like poetry to be proud of, and not something to be ...

“It’s teh-may-toes, not too-MAHH-toes,” snapped the dining staff. I looked back at him, a little surprised and rather hurt. I had never felt uncomfortable speaking my first language, English, until ...

It is true that English writings have made phenomenal advances in many of the postcolonial societies in the last fifty odd years, so much so that Salman Rushdie made the controversial claim that ...

SINGAPORE - The Straits Times has retained its top spot as the most-read English title in Singapore, with print and digital readership combined at 29 per cent reach on an average daily basis, ...

A tiny country thousands of miles away from the UK has one of the strongest economies in the world, and its own unique version of English. Singapore, known officially as the The Republic of Singapore, ...

The young editors of a student magazine, The New Cauldron (1949-60), the official organ of the Raffles Society of the University of Malaya in Singapore, in their youthful idealism and unflagging ...