FIFA is back! When the first kick-off began last month (June 2018), many of us were cheering on our favourite teams as they play against their...
Upon his appointment as the attorney-general, Tommy Thomas had previously admitted to not being very well-versed in the national language, Bahasa Melayu (BM), and promised to...
This week, a controversy arose because our finance minister, Lim Guan Eng, used Mandarin to convey an official announcement from the Finance Ministry via Facebook. While...
Being Malaysian means that we are so fortunate to be able to experience the diverse melting pot of cultures we have here. We get to experience...
A Malaysian returning to his home country from Copenhagen, Denmark recently had the opportunity to sit beside Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng in the airplane. So...
It’s probably an open secret that the level of English of some of the civil servants in Malaysia is not that great. Remember the language boo-boos...
It doesn’t matter whether or not Tun Dr Mahathir had scored the Nobel Peace Prize award, because he’s now bagged a Bollywood movie. Well, not exactly! ...
Remember the local students who became famous for their Avengers parody that they did for their English project? Well, here’s a little flashback to help you...
Yet another reason why we should work on our proficiency in English. Just recently, NST reported that a sign in a public restroom at an MRT...
As the 14th general election is set to take place this year, it is clear that competition is fierce between political parties. Penangnites woke up to...
Robert Kuok Hock Nien is a big name in both Malaysia and the world of entrepreneurship. With his business empire spanning across the world, Kuok is...
The command of English amongst our Malaysian youngsters has been ridiculed time and time again. With that said, there is one group that constantly receives a...
Every few months, the people responsible for new entries to the Oxford English Dictionary sit down with experts to determine what new words should be added....
We’re supposed to be a multilingual and multicultural country but it seems that our grasp of English just isn’t that good yet. Even though we should...
The results of the EF English Proficiency Index just came out recently and it looks like Malaysia did pretty okay with a ranking of #13. This...
University of Malaya (UM) is one of the oldest and leading universities in Malaysia, which is why when the Chinese Language Society of UM was suspended,...