Lianhe Zaobao clinches 7 awards at SPH Media's Chinese Media Group awards ceremony
A team from Lianhe Zaobao won the Best Feature Story award for its coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
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A team from Lianhe Zaobao won the Best Feature Story award for its coverage of the Russia-Ukraine war. Read more at straitstimes.com.
January 25, 2021 Beijing’s stronger presence in Southeast Asia in recent years has seen a rise in the popularity of Mandarin. Reuters When Sim Tze Wei began working to raise awareness of the Hokkien language, he never expected he would be accused of trying to divide the Chinese people. “Han Chinese nationalists everywhere are keen to equate Mandarin to [real] Chinese,” said Sim, adding that there are those who find ethnic Chinese people speaking in Chinese languages other than Mandarin “as a sign of disunity and weakness”. The Malaysian -Chinese linguist, who is in his mid-30s, is p...