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  Phillip Ang * The author blogs at LikeDatOsoCanMeh.      Read More →

Remarkably language education in Singapore is a controversial and highly politicised matter. Languages define identities and create communities and therefore cultures within them. To be clear I think the learning of languages is a good thing and should be encouraged but to give MTL the priority we have given it ahead of the... 

I had a chat with some uncles in a hawker centre the other day, and as we talked about the about the policies of the government, and many of them shook their heads. Many of them disapproved of the policies that focused on finding jobs for foreigners, while Singaporeans remain unemployed or are stuck at dead-end jobs. They say...