Minister of State for Education Gan Siow Huang said there are no plans to introduce Chinese dialects as an elective in primary and secondary schools. She...
Fresh from her recent win in General Election 2020, Member of Parliament for Chua Chu Kang GRC, Low Yen Ling appeared in the 1-hour Mediacorp show,...
New People’s Action Party (PAP) candidate, Chee Hong Tat, says it is “not a bad initiative” for “people who are more talented” or who have the...
When he wrote that fateful letter to the press in March 2009, the then Principal Private Secretary to the late and former Minister Mentor Lee Kuan...
“It would be stupid for any Singapore agency or NTU to advocate the learning of dialects, which must be at the expense of English and Mandarin,”...
By Jentified Citizen Two days after Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong launched the 35th anniversary celebration of the Speak Mandarin Campaign in early July, Lianhe Zaobao...
By Philip AngDear Minister Heng I refer to the article “Dialects will burden school kids more”. (My Paper Monday, Apr 22, 2013) In the article, you...
by Jen Are our kids incapable of learning dialects and Mandarin at the same time? Our government thinks so. Education Minister Heng Swee Kiat said recently at...
By: Jeraldine Phneah For years, English and Mother Tongue ruled the media, while dialects were kept to private conversations at home with one’s elderly grandparents and...
Has the gradual phasing out of our dialects erased more than just a local lingo? Cerelia Lim.
