Paulina Sugiarto’s three children played together at a mall here the other day, chattering not in Indonesia’s national language, but English. Their fluency often draws admiring questions from other ...

Artist Prach Pimarnman was born in Bangkok and later moved to study in the southern province of Narathiwat. Prach attended state schools that did not allow students to speak the local language, Bahasa ...

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Trent Josiah Huizar is not your ordinary teenager. Unlike many who spent their time in quarantine perfecting their TikTok dance skills or improving their gaming scores, this 16-year-old from Phoenix, ...

Malaysians of a certain age will remember the British sitcom “Mind Your Language”. It was about a language teacher who tries to teach English to a merry band of misfit immigrants. It seemed hilarious ...

Faiz Subri has created history for Malaysia - the first Malaysian to ever win the Puskas award - an award presented to those who have scored the most aesthetically significant, or ‘most beautiful’ ...