“Is English or Mandarin the language of the future” is a title in BBC news on February 22nd , 2012. A author, Pak, explains that how Southeast Asia people study English and mandarin for their business perspectives such as in Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam contexts. The Malaysia children are sent by their parents to study at private school and Singapore everyday because the standard English education in Malaysia was not meet their labour market demand. In addition, the significant important of English language among their native mandarin parents is strong. Whereas some new mandarin classes are opened since the global financial crisis and the China market are powerful in Singapore in last 3 years. Beside, young Vietnam people choose to learn English because they have long history conflict with China since 2000. Alternatively, bi-linguistic language seem to be recommended for global business sector. Even if, it still debate that whether mandarin is the language for the future of ASEAN or not, the English is considered as the basic requirement for business.