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Benjamin Tan
Benjamin Tan (born 27 March 1993) is a Singaporean actor known for his roles in the television dramas '' My Guardian Angels'', ''Mister Flower'', ''When Duty Calls 2'', ''Soul Doctor'', ''The Heartland Hero'', ''Emerald Hill High'' and ''Strike Gold''. Education Tan graduated from Murdoch University in 2018 with Bachelor of Communications. Career Tan has been signed to Mediacorp since May 2019. Tan appeared in ''Emerald Hill High'' and played as a slow-learner ah beng in ''Lion Mums 3'' in 2019, and played a slow-witted young man in the long-form series ''The Heartland Hero'' in 2021. He appeared in ''When Duty Calls 2'' in 2022. He starred in the television drama series ''Strike Gold''. Personal life Tan is the only child of his family and they run a curtains and blinds business. His father is semi-retired. On 16 April 2022, Tan revealed that his mother, an office worker, had died after being in a coma for near to 2 years. She was 53. Controversies On 13 October 20 ...
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Chen (surname)
Chen () () is a common Chinese-language surname and one of the most common surnames in Asia. It is the most common surname in Taiwan (2010) and Singapore (2000). Chen is also the most common family name in Guangdong, Zhejiang, Fujian, Macau, and Hong Kong. It is the most common surname in Xiamen, the ancestral hometown of many overseas Hoklo. Chen was listed 10th in the ''Hundred Family Surnames'' poem, in the verse 馮陳褚衛 (Feng Chen Chu Wei). In Cantonese, it is usually romanized as Chan (as in Jackie Chan), most widely used by those from Hong Kong. Chan is also widely used in Macao and Malaysia. It is also sometimes spelled Chun. In many Southern Min dialects (including dialects of Hainan, Fujian, and Taiwan), the name is pronounced Tan, while in Teochew, it is pronounced Tang. In Hakka and Taishanese, the name is spelled Chin. In Wu it is pronounced Zen or Tchen. In Vietnam, this surname is written as Trần (in Quốc Ngữ) and is 2nd most common. In Thailand, t ...
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Oppa, Saranghae!
''Oppa, Saranghae!'' () is a 2023 Singaporean fantasy romance series starring Rui En, Kim Jae-hoon, Tasha Low and Mei Xin. Produced by Wawa Pictures, the series began airing on Mediacorp Channel 8 from 12 April 2023. Synopsis A dreamy television character, Do Seo-joon, is pulled out from the television screen by a lonely and single career woman Ouyang Qiqi, and completely changes her life. However, the actual actor is an overbearing star in real life and it forces Qiqi to rethink her choices between reality and fantasy. Cast Main * Rui En as Ouyang Qiqi ** Yunis To as young Ouyang Qiqi * Tasha Low as Shine * as Cha Tae-woo / Do Seo-joon * Mei Xin as Song Jieling Supporting * Darren Lim as Michael * Lin Ruping as Phoenix * Patricia Seow Jingqin as Cindy * Lee Minghao as Kent * Jazliyana Lee as Eve * JJ Neo as Jane * Regina Lim Yunhui as Yumi * Fiona Fussi as Jeon So-yeon * Maxi Lim as Ouyang Didi * Zhang Weiqin as Xiaoqian * Andrew Lua as Jiaxian * Brian Kim as Park Kang-j ...
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Singaporean Male Film Actors
Singaporeans, or the Singaporean people, refers to citizens or people who identify with the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country. Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent have made up the vast majority of the population since the 19th century. The Singaporean diaspora is also far-reaching worldwide. In 1819, the port of Singapore was established by Sir Stamford Raffles, who opened it to free trade and free immigration on the island's south coast. Many immigrants from the region settled in Singapore. By 1827, the population of the island was composed of people from various ethnic groups. Singapore is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent. The Singaporean identity was fostered as a way for the different ethnic g ...
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Singaporean Male Television Actors
Singaporeans, or the Singaporean people, refers to citizens or people who identify with the sovereign island city-state of Singapore. Singapore is a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural and multi-lingual country. Singaporeans of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent have made up the vast majority of the population since the 19th century. The Singaporean diaspora is also far-reaching worldwide. In 1819, the port of Singapore was established by Sir Stamford Raffles, who opened it to free trade and free immigration on the island's south coast. Many immigrants from the region settled in Singapore. By 1827, the population of the island was composed of people from various ethnic groups. Singapore is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Chinese, Malay, Indian and Eurasian descent. The Singaporean identity was fostered as a way for the different ethnic g ...
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1993 Births
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 ...
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Star Awards 2024
The 29th installment of Singapore's award ceremony '' Star Awards'' ( zh, 红星大奖2024)," honored the best in Singaporean prime time television programming in 2023, as chosen by the both the television and radio industry of Singapore. The nominations were announced on 22 February 2024, and will be presented on 21 April 2024 through multiple channels including streaming websites mewatch and YouTube, who also provide exclusive backstage commentary 3:30 PM to 10:30 PM. The ceremony, announced on February 22, unveils its slogan "A Vision Transformed, Shining in All Directions," promising meticulously designed stages and captivating visual effects. With a focus on the evolution of film and television, the concept of multi-directional screens will be showcased. "All That Glitters" emerges as the most nominated series with 11 nods across seven major categories. The event follows four chapters symbolizing stages in performers' careers and incorporates the theme of "quadrants" for a ...
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Star Awards 2023
A star is an astronomical object comprising a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by its gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night, but their immense distances from Earth make them appear as fixed points of light. The most prominent stars have been categorised into constellations and asterisms, and many of the brightest stars have proper names. Astronomers have assembled star catalogues that identify the known stars and provide standardized stellar designations. The observable universe contains an estimated to stars. Only about 4,000 of these stars are visible to the naked eye, all within the Milky Way galaxy. A star's life begins with the gravitational collapse of a gaseous nebula of material composed primarily of hydrogen, along with helium and trace amounts of heavier elements. Its total mass is the main factor determining its evolution and eventual fate. A star shines for most of its active lif ...
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Star Awards For Best Newcomer
The Star Awards for Best Newcomer is an award presented annually at the Star Awards, a ceremony that was established in 1994. The category was introduced in 1994, at the 1st Star Awards ceremony as two separate awards; Yao Wenlong received the award as the Most Popular Male Newcomer award while Ivy Lee received the Most Popular Female Newcomer award and both were given in honour of a MediaCorp male and female newcomer who were deemed the most popular among the television audience. The nominees are determined by a team of judges employed by MediaCorp; winners are selected by a majority vote from the public via telephone and SMS text voting. Between 1995 and 2006, the category eliminated the distinctions between male and female newcomers and was given as a single award under the name of Most Popular Newcomer. From 2007, the award went through a major revamp and was renamed as Best Newcomer. It was changed from being a popularity award to a professional award, and is given in honour ...
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Star Awards 2021
Star Awards 2021 (Chinese: 红星大奖2021) is a television award ceremony held in Singapore on 18 April 2021, to honour the best Singaporean television, released between January 2019 and December 2020. The ceremony was delayed for a year due to the COVID-19 pandemic The Star Awards 2021 is in its 26th edition, with the theme ''connect'' 星起点, showing the role that the media companies and other industry partners are playing in engaging television audiences during the COVID-19 pandemic in Singapore during the previous year. Period drama ''A Quest to Heal'' won five awards including Best Drama Serial, Best Lead and Supporting Actors, Best Theme Song, and Best Director, the last of which was awarded in an unaired Backstage Achievement Award. Other winners include Zoe Tay of ''My Guardian Angels'' and Kym Ng of ''Daybreak'', who won Best Lead and Supporting Actresses respectively, the former breaking a winning record of four wins. The drama with the most nominations, ''A Jung ...
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Shero (TV Series)
''Shero'' (stylized in all uppercase) is a 2023 Singaporean action drama series starring Joanne Peh, Romeo Tan, Carrie Wong and Nick Teo. It follows the story of a woman who decides to join her missing sister's bodyguard company to search for her parents' murderer and to continue her sister's legacy. It began airing on Mediacorp Channel 8 from 12 June 2023. Cast Main and supporting * Joanne Peh as Zhang Yinchen * Romeo Tan as Yue Ruixiang / Max * Carrie Wong as Zhang Yinxi * Nick Teo as Guan Junsheng * Aileen Tan as Chen Meihua * Rayson Tan as Yue Feihong * Brandon Wong as Yang Huabiao * Priscelia Chan as Jiang Meizhen * Tay Ying as Lin Xinya * Cheryl Chou as Zhou Jingyu * Grace Teo as Zhao Zihan * Brian Ng as Code * Daryl-Ann as Chen Weiting * Zhu Xiufeng as Chen Yalian * Angela Ang as Liu Ruoling * Jack Hyde as Officer Hayden Cameo appearances * Regene Lim as Han Shasha * Joyce Ng as Chloe Lam * Darren Lim as Dai Guowei * Cynthia Koh as Gina Chee * Chen Shucheng as Huang Yud ...
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Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories@Job Haunting
''Mr Zhou's Ghost Stories@Job Haunting'' () is a Singaporean supernatural drama series starring Dennis Chew. A dramatisation of the stories shared on the Love 97.2FM deejay's popular radio segment of the same name, the series premiered on meWATCH meWATCH is a Singaporean digital video on demand service brand owned by Mediacorp. It was launched on 1 February 2013 as an over-the-top media service and an entertainment and lifestyle website Toggle. On 1 April 2015, xinmsn, an internet por ... in 2021. A second season was available on meWATCH in 2022 and subsequently aired on Channel 8 in 2023. It won Best Short-form Drama Serial at the Star Awards 2022. Cast Radio deejay Dennis Chew appears as himself (Mr Zhou) in every episode of both Seasons 1 and 2. Season 1 Season 2 Accolades References {{Reflist 2020s Singaporean television series 2021 Singaporean television series debuts Mediacorp Chinese language programmes ...
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