MALACCA, Malaysia - Children in colorful outfits sing in a creole of Portuguese and Malay during a class in the historic Malaysian city of Malacca, as part of efforts to stem the decline of the ...

Malaysia is at it again. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has recently proposed making Malay or Bahasa Melayu the second language of Asean to "elevate Malaysia's national language (to) the ...

Could Malaysia’s national language one day become Southeast Asia’s de facto second language after English? Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob hopes so, in a controversial stance that has raised ...

SINGAPORE: Malaysia is at it again. Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob has recently proposed making Malay or Bahasa Melayu the second language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) to ...

Ismail Sabri officiating at the International Symposium on Bahasa Melayu on Sunday. Looking on (from left) is DBP's Prof Datuk Seri Dr Awang Sariyan and Education Ministry's secretary-general Datuk ...

The issue is front-page news after the states of Sarawak and Sabah decided to promote the use of English in secondary schools. For Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, it is necessary to enhance the skills ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Professor Awang Sariyan is one of Malaysia's top language experts, being recently appointed as the Honorary Advisor of the Malay ...

The prime minister recently lamented about how Malaysians, even the GLCs, use English rather than Malay for everything, even housing development names. As I sit here in my house in Taman Sonnet ...

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 ...