Taipei Times, 17 Sep 2009
A cacophony of Mandarin and English echoes through the streets of Singapore’s Chinatown as crowds of shoppers buy joss sticks and fruit as offerings to the spirits during the Ghost Festival.
English has long united the ethnically diverse island-state but Singapore’s leaders now foresee a time when Mandarin will be the country’s dominant language and they are aggressively encouraging their people to become fluent in Chinese.
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