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Ông Địa
Ong is a Hokkien romanization of several Chinese surnames: ('' Wáng'' in Hanyu Pinyin), (also ''Wāng''), (traditional) or ( simplified; '' Huáng''); and ( Weng). Ong is also a Laotian surname. Ong or Onge is also a surname of English origin, with earliest known records found in Western Suffolk taxation records from c. 1280 AD. Ong (or Онгь in Russian language-based records) is also an Estonian surname, possibly derived from ''õng'', meaning "fishing rod/hook". Ong has also been used to romanize the Taishanese pronunciation of (more commonly romanized as Deng or Teng), as in the case of Betty Ong. Romanization Under the Pe̍h-ōe-jī romanization system, 王 but not the other names includes a circumflex over its vowel: Ông. However, this is often omitted in practice. Distribution In Singapore, Ong is the fifth-most-common surname among Singaporean residents. In the United States, Ong was the 6,682nd most common surname during the 1990 US census and the 4,343rd m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hokkien Language
Hokkien ( , ) is a Varieties of Chinese, variety of the Southern Min group of Chinese language, Chinese languages. Native to and originating from the Minnan region in the southeastern part of Fujian in southeastern China, it is also referred to as Quanzhang ( zh, c=泉漳, poj=Choân-chiang, links=no), from the first characters of the urban centers of Quanzhou and Zhangzhou. Taiwanese Hokkien is one of the national languages in Taiwan. Hokkien is also widely spoken within the overseas Chinese diaspora in Singapore, Malaysia, the Philippines, Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Hong Kong, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, and elsewhere across the world. Mutual intelligibility between Hokkien dialects varies, but they are still held together by ethnolinguistic identity. In maritime Southeast Asia, Hokkien historically served as the lingua franca amongst overseas Chinese communities of Han Chinese subgroups, all dialects and subgroups, and it remains today as the most spoken Varieties of Ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1990 US Census
The 1990 United States census, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 248,709,873, an increase of 9.8 percent over the 226,545,805 persons enumerated during the 1980 census. Approximately 16 percent of households received a "long form" of the 1990 census, which contained more than 100 questions. Full documentation on the 1990 census, including census forms and a procedural history, is available from the Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. It was the first census to designate " Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander" as a racial group separate from Asians. The census was also the first census to be directed by a woman, Barbara Everitt Bryant. To increase black participation in the 1990 United States census, the bureau recruited Bill Cosby, Magic Johnson, Alfre Woodard, and Miss America Debbye Turner as spokespeople. The Integrated Public Use Microdata Series. Aggregate data for small areas, together with el ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daryl Ong
Daryl Neilsonn Ong (born March 24, 1987) is a Filipino singer and songwriter. He rose to fame after joining the singing competition ''The Voice of the Philippines''. When Ong sang his blind audition piece "Paano" (original by Gary Valenciano) for ''The Voice of the Philippines'' Season 2, he impressed the judges and the Filipino viewers. Life and career Before he push through his singing career, he was a cartoonist in ABS-CBN. Ong was an animator of the popular Filipino animated series, ''Super Inggo at ang Super Tropa''. The animated series was the first 100% Pinoy Filipino animated TV series. From being a member of a boy group named "Voices of 5", he started doing a plenty of song covers, such as "All of Me", "Kahit Maputi Na Ang Buhok Ko", "Rude" “ Ikaw Na Nga" which gives new flavour to the listeners and posted it on his own YouTube channel which gained hundreds and thousands of views. In 2005 and 2008, he was a strong contender in the local singing contests, ''Pinoy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Ong
Daniel Ong Ming Yu (; born 27 December 1975) is a Singaporean businessman, radio DJ and television host. He is the co-founder of Twelve Cupcakes, a Singapore-based cupcake chain. He also entered the eateries business with ''Mischief American'' street food at Esplanade in 2015, and ''Rookery'' at Hong Leong building in 2014. He was a radio deejay in Singapore's MediaCorp Radio 987FM and television host. Media career Ong is known for playing the role in Singapore's television sitcom Mr. Kiasu as Kiasee, as well as co-hosting the second season of Singapore Idol in 2006. Ong joined 987FM since 1999. Ong hosted the Dan and Young show on 987FM on weekdays, 5am to 10am with Mr Young (Young Leong). In 2004, Ong was suspended from on-air duties after making ‘lewd’ jokes that aired on Perfect 10 radio station. He also hosted National Day Parade 2006 and numerous other events. Ong managed the station for 15 months and then stepped down due to the long working hours of juggl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cassandra Ong
Katherine Cassandra Li Ong (born May 23, 2000), also nicknamed Cassy Li, is a Filipino businesswoman who was an associate of Lucky South 99 Outsourcing, Inc., a defunct Philippine Offshore Gaming Operator (POGO) in Porac, Pampanga, that has been investigated by authorities for criminal activities committed within its compound. She acted as the "authorized representative" of the company when acquiring its operating license from the Philippine Amusement and Gaming Corporation (PAGCOR) in 2019. On August 20, 2024, she was apprehended by authorities in Batam, Riau Islands, Indonesia, and was thereafter brought back to the Philippines. Early life Katherine Cassandra Li Ong as per records was born on May 23, 2000, in San Juan, Metro Manila to Chinese parents Richard Ong Chao and Ying Xia Li. Richard Ong Chao sought Filipino citizenship via naturalization in 1978. According to Cassandra, she was delivered by a ''hilot'' after which she was brought to the Chinese General Hospital in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canny Ong
Ahmad Najib bin Aris (1976 – 23 September 2016) was a Malaysian convicted murderer who in 2003 raped and killed Canny Ong, a US-based Malaysian information technology (IT) analyst. The crime made headlines across Malaysia. He was sentenced to death in 2005 after being found guilty in a highly reported trial, and throughout the next 11 years, he made multiple failed appeals against his sentence and was finally executed on 23 September 2016, more than 13 years after murdering Ong. Ahmad Najib was also alleged to have committed at least four charges of rape on four different women, but was not formally charged. Early life Ahmad Najib bin Aris was born and raised in Muar, Malaysia. His date of birth was sometime in 1976. Ahmad Najib was the second of four siblings in the family. Ahmad Najib studied up to his third year in secondary school (Form Three) before he dropped out without continuing his final two years of secondary school education (secondary school education in Malaysia l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kapitan Cina
Kapitan Cina, also spelled Kapitan China or Capitan China or Capitan Chino (; ; ; ), was a high-ranking government position in the civil administration of colonial Indonesia, Malaya, Singapore, Borneo and the Philippines. Office holders exercised varying degrees of power and influence: from near-sovereign political and legal jurisdiction over local Chinese communities, to ceremonial precedence for community leaders. Corresponding posts existed for other ethnic groups, such as Kapitan Arab and Kapitan Keling for the local Arab and Indian communities respectively. Pre-colonial origin The origin of the office, under various different native titles, goes back to court positions in the precolonial states of Southeast Asia, such as the Sultanates of Malacca in the Malay Peninsula, the Sultanate of Banten in Java, and the Kingdom of Siam in mainland Southeast Asia. Ooi, Keat Gin. ''Southeast Asia: A Historical Encyclopedia, From Angkor Wat to East Timor''p. 711/ref> Many rule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ong Boon Pang
Ong Boon Pang (; 1882 – 14 January 1940) was a Bruneian aristocrat, businessman, and Kapitan Cina who made important contributions to the Chinese community, especially in the areas of education and urban planning. He was dedicated to education, as evidenced by his efforts in establishing Chung Hwa Middle School, Bandar Seri Begawan, the country's first Chinese school. He organised the Overseas Chinese Mutual Help Association, serving as its president and providing support to local Chinese residents in their daily lives. Early life and education Ong Boon Pang was born in 1882 in Lieyu village, Kinmen County, Taiwan. At the age of eighteen, he left his hometown to seek a livelihood, first sailing to Singapore and then to Brunei the following year. At that time, Brunei was still undeveloped and sparsely populated, with a national population of fewer than 20,000, including only a few hundred Chinese residents. The capital city, Brunei Town, had just one street lined with sca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chin Peng
Chin Peng (21 October 1924 – 16 September 2013), born Ong Boon Hua, was a British Malaya, Malayan Communism, communist politician, Guerrilla warfare, guerrilla leader, and revolutionary, who was the leader and commander of the Malayan Communist Party, Communist Party of Malaya (CPM) and the Malayan National Liberation Army (MNLA). A Maoism, Maoist, he led the CPM as Secretary (title), secretary general from 1947 until the party's dissolution in 1989. Chin was born into a middle-class family in Sitiawan, now a part of Perak. In 1939, at the age of 15, he became a revolutionary and fled to Kuala Lumpur in 1940. He joined the CPM in 1941, and quickly involved himself in local party committees and labour unions in Perak. Throughout the World War II, Second World War, Chin fought as an Anti-imperialism, anti-colonialist guerrilla in the Malayan Peoples' Anti-Japanese Army (MPAJA) against the Japanese occupation of Malaya, allying with Force 136, a British-funded covert resistance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
September 11 Attacks
The September 11 attacks, also known as 9/11, were four coordinated Islamist terrorist suicide attacks by al-Qaeda against the United States in 2001. Nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial airliners, crashing the first two into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City and the third into the Pentagon (headquarters of the U.S. Department of Defense) in Arlington County, Virginia. The fourth plane crashed in a rural Pennsylvania field during a passenger revolt. The attacks killed 2,977 people, making it the deadliest terrorist attack in history. In response to the attacks, the United States waged the global war on terror over multiple decades to eliminate hostile groups deemed terrorist organizations, as well as the foreign governments purported to support them. Ringleader Mohamed Atta flew American Airlines Flight 11 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center complex at 8:46 a.m. Seventeen minutes later at 9:03 a.m., United Airlines Flig ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ong Beng Teong
Ong Beng Teong (Chinese: 王明忠; born 29 May 1962) is a former badminton player from Malaysia. Career Ong won the gold medal at the 1982 Commonwealth Games in the men's doubles together with Razif Sidek. In the 1988 Thomas Cup he represented Malaysia and reached with the team the final of the cup. In the final he played the men's doubles with Cheah Soon Kit and lost with him to the Chinese pair Chen Kang and Chen Hongyong 12-15 and 12–15. Personal life Ong is the head coach and founder of Pro Badminton Academy, a badminton training academy running in both Kuala Lumpur Kuala Lumpur (KL), officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, is the capital city and a Federal Territories of Malaysia, federal territory of Malaysia. It is the largest city in the country, covering an area of with a census population ... and Melbourne, Australia. His two children, Nicholas and Andrew currently live in Melbourne. Achievements Southeast Asian Games ''Men's singles'' '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ong Beng Hee
Ong Beng Hee (; born 4 February 1980) is a Malaysian former professional squash player and coach. Between 2000 and 2006, he won four consecutive Asian Championship titles. In 2002 and 2006 he won gold medals at the Asian Games. He won 11 Professional Squash Association (PSA) Tour titles out of 19 final appearances, and earned a world ranking of No. 7, a career-best. This record has made him Malaysia's most successful male squash player in history. He retired in July 2015. Biography 1994 – 1997 Ong Beng Hee began playing squash when he was eight – at the 17-court club his squash-enthusiast father had built in Malaysia. He first came to international attention in January 1994 when he won the British Junior Under-14 Open title in England. A year later he reached the final of the Under-16 British Open, eventually winning the Under-16 title in January 1996. Later that year, he reached the semi-finals of the 1996 World Junior Open in Egypt, competing as a 16-year-old in an eve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
