At a seminar organised by the Singapore Stock Exchange in March this year,I made a casual remark that many Malay Singaporeans did not seem to speak good Malay nowadays. The audience reacted with surprise and incomprehension.

• 今年3月，我曾经在一个证券交易所主办的研讨会上不经意谈起，现在有许多本地马来人不太会讲马来话，当时在场的听众纷纷表示惊奇和不理解。