Goh, 56, has been prime minister of Singapore since 1990. Educated in the U.S. (at Williams College in Massachusetts), Goh was the handpicked successor to Lee Kwan Yew, the founding father of the ...

When then-prime minister Goh Chok Tong launched the “Speak Good English Movement” the next year, he dismissed Singlish as “English corrupted by Singaporeans.” In his National Day speech ...

SINGAPORE - The kind of English spoken in Singapore has long been a discussion point. Throwback to some 25 years ago, when then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong urged Singaporeans to stop speaking ...

It reminded me that our Singaporean students would probably not be understood outside of Singapore if they spoke Singlish, ... then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong cautioned against a cavalier ...

Singlish is crude precisely because it’s rooted in Singapore’s unglamorous past. This is a nation built from the sweat of uncultured immigrants who arrived 100 years ago to bust their asses in ...

SINGAPORE — Emeritus Senior Minister Goh Chok Tong said yesterday (July 27) there is a need to guard against elitism because it threatens to divide the inclusive society Singapore is seeking to ...

GOH CHOK TONG: The last transmission, that is a local transmission of the disease in Singapore happened on April 27, and you normally need two incubation periods of ten days each before we can say ...

This is explored in CNA’s two-part special on Singlish, ... but Phua Chua Kang speaks only Singlish,” said then Prime Minister Goh Chok Tong at the 1999 National Day Rally.