As many of you may already know, Singlish is the English-based creole spoken colloquially within Singapore, and despite the government's efforts over the years with the Speak Good English Movement, ...

Tan is the author, most recently, of Sarong Party Girls My father had just one question when he started reading my first novel earlier this year: “Who taught you to speak like that?” Written in ...

Singapore's famous spouting Merlion statue - in Singlish "merlion" means to vomit profusely Singapore's government has long insisted that everyone in the island nation should speak English - it's the ...

SINGAPORE: Every other foreign gig who’s performed in Singapore in recent months seems to be learning and using Singlish. At Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour at the National Stadium in March, Swift's dancer, ...

On November 11th, the last day of Singapore Writer’s Festival (SWF) 2018, I find myself in the strange position of having to explain Singlish to a foreigner. A backpacker from Taiwan, she happened to ...

SINGAPORE: The narratives surrounding Singlish has dominated both the public and academic imagination. Singlish has had her share of supporters and detractors. Supporters of Singlish believe that ...

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While Crazy Rich Asians is not the first big budget Hollywood production to be filmed in Singapore, it has a special status: It is based on a bestseller written by a Singaporean, and the story, ...

Taylor Swift’s dancer Kameron Saunders (right) has been treating the audiences in Singapore to Singlish across the 6 nights of The Eras Tour. (Photos: Ashok Kumar/TAS24/Getty Images for TAS Rights ...