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 ...

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 ...

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said Malay had a place as the language of knowledge and it should not be sacrificed amid efforts to empower the English language. In defending Putrajaya's decision to revert ...

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