About Us
Golden Microphone’s eloquence and traditional Chinese culture courses help students unlock their potential through engaging, interactive learning that develops voice and stage presence. The training nurtures confidence and transforms shy learners into expressive and confident individuals. Through speech, debate, recitation, presentation, drama, opera, singing, dance, and traditional folk arts, students gain a deep appreciation of Chinese culture and the beauty of the language, while building fluent and versatile communication skills. The program has also nurtured hundreds of award-winning students, including national champions, runners-up, and recipients of gold, silver, bronze, and excellence awards in storytelling, speech, recitation, and debate competitions, and has been widely featured in media coverage.
Our tuition courses have consistently helped students achieve strong results in the PSLE and O-Level examinations. Many students continue their learning journey with us from primary to secondary school. These lasting relationships between students, parents, and the centre are at the heart of Golden Microphone and define our core values.
Additionally, the centre has been invited to deliver specialised teaching programmes for PSLE reading comprehension, oral exams, and composition in various primary and secondary schools, as well as O-Level Chinese reading comprehension and oral exam preparation courses. These initiatives help students strengthen their exam techniques and have been well-received from schools and learners alike.
Our Principals
Ms. Liu Chang
Liu Chang is the founder and principal of Golden Microphone Learning Centre. With 35 years of frontline teaching and training experience, she has a profound understanding of children’s psychology and has developed distinctive methods to cultivate eloquence and performing arts in children. She is passionate about uncovering each student’s potential, sparking their curiosity, and guiding them to grow from shy and reserved individuals into confident, expressive learners.
She is a multi-time champion in national Chinese storytelling, public speaking, recitation, and crosstalk competitions for primary and secondary school students in Singapore. Since her first student’s championship win in 2005, she has mentored hundreds of students to success. Over the past decade, she has coached more than 200 students to first, second, and third place, along with numerous awards at various levels.
Ms. Liu Chang has conducted courses and lectures in speech, recitation, storytelling, performing arts CCA, PSLE preparation, and O-Level Chinese oral examination sprint programmes in nearly 30 government primary and secondary schools over the past 20 years. She has also coached school teams to multiple top-three finishes in national competitions. Many of her champion students have been featured in major media outlets, including Lianhe Zaobao, The Straits Times, Thumbs Up, Mediacorp’s “Singapore Today 6:30”, CAPITAL 958 and 96.3 好 FM.
Ms. Liu Chang is a registered senior public speaking coach, drama instructor, and Chinese language teacher with Singapore’s Ministry of Education, and also a public speaking and performing arts instructor with the Singapore People’s Association. She is a former Class One Teacher and Model Teacher in China.
She has received multiple awards in teaching and arts competitions organised by the Chinese Ministry of Education and Ministry of Culture, and has coached children’s troupes featured in numerous major television productions, including two CCTV-17 Mid-Autumn Festival Galas.
The poetry recitation, song, and dance drama programmes coached by Ms. Liu have been featured in numerous large-scale cultural performances in Singapore. She serves as chief director of the “First Children’s Poetry Culture and Art Festival and Second Singapore Poetry Spring Festival Gala” and the “Lion City Chinese Children’s Art Festival,” as well as executive director of the “Lion City Children’s Four Great Classics” and the “Children’s Original Drama Exhibition for the 60th Anniversary of the Founding of the People’s Republic of China.”
Mr. Zhu Ning
Mr. Zhu Ning is the founder of the Golden Microphone Learning Centre and has more than 30 years of experience as a professional host and emcee.Hehas received numerous personal honorary awards in China. He is the recipient of the China Radio and Television Golden Microphone Award, has been named one of the first "Top Ten Hosts" of China's city radio, and has won first prize in the China Good News Awards.
In Singapore, Mr. Zhu achieved a Grand Slam in multiple speech competitions at the International Speech Contest. His accolades include the first National Humorous Speech Champion, the Champion of the Singapore International Speech Contest, and the Champion of the inaugural Lianhe Zaobao Singapore Chinese Speech Open.
Beyond his own achievements, Mr. Zhu has made a significant impact as a coach in primary and secondary schools. He has guided numerous students to top-three finishes in the Singapore National Chinese Speech and Storytelling Competition and has coached renowned schools to multiple victories in the National Secondary School Bilingual Debate Championship.CounselingNeighborhood Middle School won the Best Charm Award in the competition.And was interviewed by "8 World"; also tutoredNeighborhood Middle School won the second place in the same bilingual debate competition.
Zhu Ning has conducted speech, debate, hosting, and young journalist classes at over 20 local primary and secondary schools. She has mentored students from prestigious and neighborhood schools to win first and second place in the Singapore National Debating Team and has trained four young people to become professional radio hosts in China. Zhu Ning has also served as a featured host on MediaCorp Radio's 958 City Channel and Love972.
Our Creative Arts Consultant
Professor Chua Soo Pong
Professor Chua Soo Pong is the founding dean of the Singapore Academy of Chinese Opera. He began studying dance and music at a young age and was actively involved in drama activities at Hwa Chong High School and the Hwa Chong Alumni Association. At the age of 19, he led the dance and arts groups of the Children’s Drama Club. He later continued his creative work in the Children’s and Youth Drama Clubs, where he choreographed and directed numerous productions performed on stage and broadcast on radio. In 1989, on the recommendation of Singapore’s Ministry of Social Development, he was appointed as the first senior performing arts expert at the Southeast Asian Archaeology and Art Center under the Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organisation, marking the beginning of his regional artistic career across Southeast Asia. Professor Chua is also an established drama and dance critic and has served as a judge for international competitions in drama, dance, and puppetry across more than a dozen countries, including China, the United States, Japan, South Korea, India, and Malaysia. In 2021, he met Teacher Liu Chang and began collaborating to further the preservation and promotion of Chinese cultural arts in Singapore, including Yangzhou Opera. He currently serves as the Special Artistic Director of Golden Microphone.
Our Stars
Zhu Zeliang
Zhu Zeliang is currently a DJ at Singapore’s YES 933 radio station. In 2008, he became the champion of the 4th National Primary School Students’ Mandarin Storytelling Competition, making him the first national champion trained by Golden Microphone Learning Centre.
During his student years, he demonstrated strong talent in storytelling, drama performance, and public speaking.
In 2016, he officially began his radio career with the programme The Star Voice. After joining YES 933 as a part-time DJ, he went on to host various shows, and in 2021 became a full-time evening host on Night Belt – The Night Is Young.
In 2019, he also won the Mediacorp Radio Children’s Talent Competition. Over the past few years, he has also worked as a bilingual emcee for various events and expanded into television dramas, variety shows, travel programmes, and web series, demonstrating strong multi-platform versatility.
From 2023 to 2025, he was nominated for the Star Awards’ Most Popular Rising Star, and in 2025, he also received a nomination for the professional category of Best Radio Programme Host.
Meera
Meera is the first Indian student of Golden Microphone Learning Centre and has been under the guidance of Teacher Liu since Primary 1. With her patient mentorship, Meera has achieved outstanding results, including third place in the National Primary School Chinese Storytelling Competition and the National Secondary School Speech Competition. In 2017, she and a team of contestants from China won first prize in the Singapore “Global Village” Bilingual Speech Competition and the YMCA Chinese Speech Competition. Her achievements have been featured multiple times in Lianhe Zaobao and The Straits Times. In March 2019, under Teacher Liu’s guidance, Meera and two teammates from China received the highest award at the Global Youth Speech Festival in Beijing, an achievement that was also widely covered by Chinese media.
