More than half of the children from married mixed-race couples are choosing to learn Chinese as their mother tongue in local schools, according to fresh data from the Ministry of Education (MOE).
It showed that over the last five years, about 87 per cent of children from mixed-race marriages studied one of three main mother tongue languages - Chinese, Malay or Tamil.
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