The 2025 World Hokkien Golden Melody Awards, the world's largest Hokkien language music gala, concluded on Saturday in Xiamen, Southeastern China's Fujian province, celebrating the rich cultural ...

Singapore Hokkien singer David Chia has died at the age of 73 on Jan 8. His daughter Lindy Chia told Chinese-language daily ...

Veteran Singaporean Hokkien singer David Chia, also known as Xie Jinshi, has passed away at 73 after a battle with advanced ...

Despite being a Westie, I haven’t ventured much into Boon Lay besides grocery shopping at Jurong Point. So, I scouted for new food options in Boon Lay Place Food Village and noticed that Ho Huat Fried ...

A new study suggests that everyday multilingual habits—from chatting with neighbors to revisiting a childhood language—may help preserve memory, attention, and brain flexibility as we age. An ...

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since ...

It’s rare to see Singaporeans agree on things — Hokkien mee recommendations in particular, because few things polarise (yet unite) us quite like this delicious noodle dish does. That said, my ...

Is language core to thought, or a separate process? For 15 years, the neuroscientist Ev Fedorenko has gathered evidence of a language network in the human brain — and has found some similarities to ...

Are tech companies on the verge of creating thinking machines with their tremendous AI models, as top executives claim they are? Not according to one expert. We humans tend to associate language with ...

PETALING JAYA: Chinese dialects, once frequently spoken by the Chinese community, seem to be fading from daily use as Mandarin takes centre stage. So, amid growing concern over the loss of a vital ...

In their classic 1998 textbook on cognitive neuroscience, Michael Gazzaniga, Richard Ivry, and George Mangun made a sobering observation: there was no clear mapping between how we process language and ...

Among the myriad abilities that humans possess, which ones are uniquely human? Language has been a top candidate at least since Aristotle, who wrote that humanity was “the animal that has language.” ...