SINGAPORE: More pre-schools are now offering all three mother tongue languages, alongside a push to train more specialised teachers as part of efforts to strengthen early bilingualism.

BANGKOK, Thailand (RNS) A non-Muslim Chinese couple who posted on Facebook a photo of themselves eating pork during the Islamic month of Ramadan face up to 15 years in prison in Muslim-majority ...

A Malay newspaper owned by the country's ruling party, which narrowly won last week's elections thanks in part to the ethnic Chinese community voting for the opposition, ran with the headline ‘apa ...

A tiny Chinese medium school in rural Malaysia set a record of sorts when all 20 students it admitted for year one classes starting on March 11 were Malays. Malays have been outnumbering the Chinese ...

A group of Chinese journalists covering President Xi Jinping’s Malaysia visit have delighted social media in the Southeast Asian nation through their grasp of Malay and appreciation of local cuisine.

A surge in demand for Malaysian real estate from wealthy Chinese families drawn to the country’s international schools and universities may gain further momentum with this week’s visit by Chinese ...

A close examination of two flagship BRI-related infrastructure projects in Malaysia reveals the complex reality of China’s financial statecraft. While the DFTZ promises growth for both Malaysians and ...

Chinese semiconductor design companies are reportedly turning to Malaysia for the assembly of a portion of their high-end chips, known as graphics processing units (GPUs). A move to limit financial ...

Benjamin Blythe is a graduate student at Indiana University’s Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies and O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. His research focuses on ...