Education minister Fadhlina Sidek said Bahasa Melayu was versatile, having absorbed words from regional dialects and other languages. “Maha kaya” is among 12 new Malay words to be added to Dewan ...

Forest creatures include some of humanity’s closest biological relatives. Due to human threats, they are also some of the most endangered animals on our planet. Southeast Asia hosts many unique forest ...

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) calls them “untranslatable words” – those that do not have English equivalents – that have been imported into the English language by speakers to fill a “lexical ...