SINGAPORE – Whenever an apologetic Madam Susan Wong asks for help filling up forms at job interviews, she gets this incredulous response: “You don’t know English?”

The 59-year-old Singaporean, who studied up to primary six in a Chinese-language school, has worked odd jobs all her life while raising three daughters in a one-room flat.

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