She can switch effortlessly between Hokkien, English, Tamil, Malay and even conversational Mandarin. The multilingualism of ...

A nostalgic tale about family, hope and hardship has opened an unexpected conversation.

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The dialect differences in the movie are a telling sign of how things have changed since early migrants moved to S-E Asia. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Becca and Neil have a real conversation in easy English about climate change – how long-term weather patterns are shifting.

Launched in February 2006, Tourism Australia’s “So where the bloody hell are you?” campaign is now 20 years old. Two decades ...

Since the late 1860s, Taishanese (also known as Toisanese or Hoisanwa) has been one of the most common languages spoken in San Francisco. But since then, virtually the only way to learn Taishanese in ...

Rich and powerful families have a strong interest in one particular language, with experts saying it is no surprise given the country's rise.

Police have warned the country's Chinese community to be on the lookout for a phone scam involving fake family doctors.

Then he picks up a stockpot, turns toward his phone and begins speaking in fluent English with a striking American accent.

LOCKED away in a tiny prison cell after being caught trying to flee North Korea, 17-year-old Timothy Cho considered taking ...

But when news broke that the Chinese film "Dear You", originally filmed in Teochew, would be dubbed into Mandarin here, there was a sense of general perturbation. MPs, like the PAP's Cai Yinzhou and ...