BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) -- Malay Language is losing its grip in Brunei, with only 50.5 percent of the public in the sultanate communicate in Malay Language at home, finding of a recent ...

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 ...

PETALING JAYA: The International Symposium on Bahasa Melayu is the best platform to identify whatever obstacles in dignifying the Malay language thus making it one of the official languages of Asean, ...

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 ...

Students from Pin Hwa and Tsun Jin High Schools discussed challenges like limited Malay-speaking environments while ...

SINGAPORE: The Malay Language Centre of Singapore is working with the Language and Literature Agency in Malaysia to create opportunities and enrich programmes for teachers. Senior Parliamentary ...

In a recent television commentary, the head of Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, the government agency tasked with promoting and safeguarding the Malay language, had some rather spicy – and perhaps sour – ...

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 ...

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: ...

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