January 4, 2026 (TAWILA) – The Sudan Liberation Movement-Abdel Wahid (SLM-AW) has replaced Sudan’s national flag and anthem with its own symbols in territory it controls, a spokesperson said on Sunday ...

Poland on Thursday received its first AW-149 multirole helicopter built on its own production line, part of a 32-aircraft deal that shifts most deliveries from Italy to domestic manufacturer ...

California took a big step toward overhauling its reading curriculum last week when Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a bill pushing for phonics-based instruction in elementary and middle school classrooms.

Jeffrey McQuillan claims that encouraging phonics instruction will be a “train wreck” in California (Letters, Oct. 3). Yet his main piece of evidence, a 2020 analysis, is wanting. Aside from some ...

There are few things people on both sides of the political aisle agree on nowadays, but one is that ditching phonics-based instruction for reading has been a disaster. Even California is now following ...

SINGAPORE – Local actress Jeanette Aw has revealed that she was sexually harassed by a foreigner more than 20 years ago. In the latest episode of her YouTube show JA Unscripted, uploaded on Aug 31, ...

To the editor: In 1970, I was a student teacher and then a second-grade teacher in New York. I later became a learning and reading specialist and taught the teachers. Throughout my training, I learned ...

To look inside Julie Celestial’s kindergarten classroom in Long Beach is to peer into the future of reading in California. During a recent lesson, 25 kindergartners gazed at the whiteboard, trying to ...

Tasked with spelling out the word "drop," the first grader at Logan Elementary School had instead written "drip" onto his laminated sheet with a dry-erase marker. But quickly realizing that spelling ...

If all the world’s a stage, it must include the 20 hectares of barren, dusty and drought-stricken Malaysian farmland at the center of Tash Aw’s sensitively drawn novel “The South.” This failing ...

SINGAPORE – Home-grown actress Jeanette Aw has nothing but praise for her on-screen daughter from the hit local series The Little Nyonya (2008 to 2009), whom she recently reunited with after 17 years.

Jonathan Butcher is the Will Skillman fellow in education at The Heritage Foundation and the author of “Splintered: Critical Race Theory and the Progressive War on Truth” (Post Hill Press/Bombardier ...