The Minister for Information and the Arts, BG George Yeo, mentioned in his speech at the relaunch of the Lianhe Zaobao recently that in many South-east Asian countries, people are taking up Chinese as the second language.

• 新闻及艺术部长杨荣文准将在《早报开创新高峰》一文里曾提及，有许多东南亚国家，很多人选择华文为第二语文。