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作者:冀居·谢 这是一个很旧的台湾笑话，话说有个老人家去医院看病，拿药的时候遇到不谙台语的护士，护士勉强用台语告诉他吃药的分量，哪知道回家后吃下第一次就要送院洗胃，原来老人家把“吃饱三粒”听成了“吃百三粒”。不想这样的笑话竟然活生生出现在本地！ 语言去到较高阶段就要懂得避讳，因为语言是表达给人听、给人看的，要避免误听、误读，更何况吃错药攸关性命，是不可以把两三句话拼成一句讲的。小孩子和学外语... 

In a most stunning U-turn, Education Minister Dr Ng Eng Hen now says that the weightage for mother tongue languages in the Primary School Leaving Examination (PSLE) will not be reduced after all. On 21 April 2010, the Straits Times published an article with the title “Mother tongue weighting in PSLE could be cut”... 

Remarks by Dr Ng Eng Hen, Minister for Education and Second Minister for Defence, at the Press Conference on Teaching of Mother Tongue Language on 11 May 2010 1. There were strong reactions to my interview three weeks ago. Today, I will clarify any misunderstanding by outlining more fully what MOE’s plans are regarding... 

Good morning Reviewing your article on ST forum editor accusing Dr Chee Soon Juan on damaging Straits Time integrity by accusing its editoral practices, I chanced upon this poll on Asiaone website, portal for SPH. I have attached the URL in the picture so you can verify for yourself. Seeing the title “Most singaporeans... 

By Gilbert Goh A friend recently told me that he will be retrenched by the end of July as his company is suffering massive losses from the current recession. As the doom days get nearer, he became rather edgy.  This is his third time out of work after staying jobless for a few months last year. He only works in his current... 

Chelsea Football Club became the 2009/10 Barclays Premier League champions after an empathic 8-0 win over a hapless Wigan side. Didier Drogba scored a hat-trick and the result was never in doubt after Nicolas Anelka found the net after just six minutes of play. Chelsea had only needed a win to ensure that Manchester United... 

Manpower Minister Gan Kim Yong became the latest PAP leader to indulge in generous self-praise after launching the new Human Capital Leadership Institute to spearhead Singapore’s drive to become a “global talent hub”. Mr Gan claimed that the institute will encourage more innovation for businesses in Singapore... 

The Straits Times Forum editor Yap Koon Hong has told opposition politician Chee Soon Juan that he would be denied space in the Forum pages until he withdrew his “serious and unfounded aspersions” on the integrity of the newspaper. He was responding to previous reports on the SDP website which implied that The Straits... 

By Jordan Lee The Concept of Employee Voice The growing interest in the notion of ‘employee voice’ in recent years has led to many different interpretations of the term. Traditional meanings of employee voice such as collective bargaining and grievance procedures have now been combined with more consensual methods such... 

By Asrul Hadi Abdullah Sani from The Malaysian Insider Pakatan Rakyat (PR) leaders said today that Datuk Seri Hishammuddin Hussein should apologize after the Home Minister said that street crime in Malaysia were exaggerated by idle chatter of women while at the hairdressers. The lawmakers agreed that the Umno vice-president’s...