An Indian-origin minister in Singapore has emphasised the importance of Tamil language as a mother tongue, underscoring the need to introduce children to one of the four official languages in the ...

Singapore: A month-long Tamil language festival will be held in Singapore starting April 1 to encourage young people from the community to embrace their mother tongue. The theme of the annual festival ...

LIKE Karachi, Singapore is a multi - lingual and a multi-ethnic city. The difference is that Singapore has an astute and foresighted leadership which realises how sensitive the language issue is and ...

Singapore’s Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) is teaming with AI Singapore and the Agency for Science, Technology and Research to launch the S$70 million ($52.3 million) National Multimodal ...

Twenty-five-year-old linguist tutor Kevin Martens Wong (left) conducts a Kristang language class at the national library board in Singapore. Photo: AFP Kevin Martens Wong reels off sentences in ...

A new research initiative is underway to build a large language model (LLM) that better meets the demographics of Southeast Asian nations. Dubbed the National Multimodal LLM Programme, the initiative ...

Singapore minister Indranee Rajah said language was not something that one could only study. "You need to put it to use,” she said. Singapore minister Indranee Rajah recently emphasised the need to ...

Kevin Martens Wong reels off sentences in Kristang, which is among several minority languages in Singapore enjoying a new lease of life after a decades-long drive to encourage the use of English and ...