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Belinda Lee (host)
Belinda Lee Xin Yu (born 8 July 1977) is a Singaporean television host, actress and former MTV Asia VJ. Early life In a 2023 interview with infotainment programme ''Tuesday Report'', Lee revealed that she remembered having a very tough childhood, where she was fostered by her relatives when she was an infant and only returned to live with her parents when she was about three. Her family was struggling financially then and that she had poor grades in school. She then joined her school's dance club and it helped her to gradually regain her confidence. Career While being a sales executive, Lee joined the MTV Mandarin VJ Hunt audition in June 1998 and won. She then became the first Singaporean to become an MTV Mandarin VJ. She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2002 to 2017. She has hosted shows including ''Find Me a Singaporean'', ''The Places We Live In'' (2013) and ''Somewhere Out There'' (2015). In 2014, she was appointed World Vision's goodwill ambassador. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Li (surname 李)
Li or Lee (; ) is a common Chinese surname, it is the 4th name listed in the famous ''Hundred Family Surnames.'' Li is one of the most common surnames in Asia, shared by 92.76 million people in China, and more than 100 million in Asia. It is the List of common Chinese surnames, second-most common surname in China as of 2018, the second-most common surname in Hong Kong, the most common surname in Macau and the 5th most common surname in Taiwan, where it is usually romanized as "Lee". The surname is pronounced as () in Cantonese, ''Lí'' (Pe̍h-ōe-jī, poj) in Taiwanese Hokkien, but is often spelled as "Lee" in Hong Kong, Macau, Taiwan, Thailand and many overseas Chinese communities. In Macau, it is also spelled as "Lei". In Indonesia it is commonly spelled as "Lie". The common Korean name#Family names, Korean surname, "Lee (Korean surname), Lee" (also romanized as "I", "Yi", "Ri", or "Rhee"), and the Vietnamese name#Family name, Vietnamese surname, "Lý (Vietnamese name), Lý", a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SuperBand
''SuperBand'' () is a spin-off of ''Project SuperStar'', a popular singing talent-search competition in Singapore. Contestants are bands of 2 to 6 people. To mark the opening of the first season, a special SuperBand Big Jam where all the 18 bands made their debut at Suntec City's Fountain of Wealth, and was aired as a special at 8:45pm on April 9, 2006. After which, the show was broadcast at 7:30pm on Monday starting from April 10, 2006 for the first 4 episodes of Season 1. Subsequent episodes were aired at 8:00pm. The results show were aired 'live' at 11:30pm on MediaCorp Channel U. For Season 2, all shows were on Monday at 8:00pm from June 16, 2008 with the results show delayed at 11:30pm after an earlier recording at about 10:00pm. An exception was on August 18, 2008, when the main show was aired at 7:00pm due to the telecast of the National Day Rally's English speech at 8:00pm. The band with the lowest overall scores would be eliminated every week. The scores are determined ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2010
Star Awards 2010 (Simplified Chinese, Chinese: 红星大奖 2010) was a double television award ceremony held in Singapore. It is part of the annual Star Awards organised by Mediacorp, MediaCorp for the two free-to-air channels, Channel 8 (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel 8 and Channel U (Singaporean TV channel), MediaCorp Channel U. The nomination lists for the main categories and popularity awards were announced on 3 February and 18 March 2010, respectively. This year ''Star Awards'' marked the first time the Professional and Technical awards (given out to backstage crew and scriptwriters) were telecast and presented in one show (first show), and was also the second year to host multiple award shows airing on two separate Sunday nights, after Star Awards 2007, 2007. While the first show was still held at MediaCorp TV Theatre, the second show was, for the third time in ''Star Awards history, being held on the new location of Resorts World Sentosa, after 1996 and Star Aw ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards For Best Info-Ed Programme Host
A star is a luminous spheroid of plasma held together by self-gravity. The nearest star to Earth is the Sun. Many other stars are visible to the naked eye at night; 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 largely comprising hydrogen, helium, and traces of heavier elements. Its total mass mainly determines its evolution and eventual fate. A star shines for most of its active life due to the thermonuclear fusion of hydrogen into helium in its core. Thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Awards 2009
Star Awards 2009 ( Chinese: 红星大奖 2009) was a television award ceremony held in Singapore. It was part of the annual Star Awards organised by MediaCorp for its Chinese language division ( Channel 8 and Channel U). The awards took place at 26 April 2009 starting at 7pm at MediaCorp Studios, followed by a post-show party airing on Channel U after the ceremony ended. The nominations were announced on 24 February 2009, and the popularity awards later on 27 March. As like previous years, most technical category awards were presented outside the ceremony. The Best Info-Ed Programme Host award was introduced to recognise infotainment show hosts. The nomination lists for the main categories were announced on 24 February 2009. Nominations for the popularity awards (''Top 10 Most Popular Male and Female Artistes'') were announced on 27 March 2009. DueIn contrast of previous ''Star Awards'' ceremonies which were held at the end of the year (month of December), a change in the eligibi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dance Dance Dragon
''Dance Dance Dragon'' () is a Singaporean comedy film from Mediacorp Raintree Pictures and Golden Village Pictures that was released for Chinese New Year on 19 January 2012 in Singapore and in March in Malaysia. It is MediaCorp Raintree Pictures's last film. It was produced by most of the production team of ''It's a Great, Great World''. The cast includes artistes from both Singapore and Malaysia. Plot As Chinese New Year 2012 marks the year of the Dragon, the film explores the Chinese's age-old obsession with the Dragon and having children on a "Dragon year" (see Chinese zodiac). In the introduction, Ah Long (Melvin Sia) tells about how his father (Zheng Geping) was desperate to have a son born in the Dragon year because his ancestors had decreed that only a "Dragon boy" could take over the family's Dragon Dance Association, known as Long Zhong Wu Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Association (龙众舞舞龙舞狮团). His mother (younger, Pan Lingling and older, Lai Meng) instead giv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peace & Prosperity
''Peace & Prosperity'' () ran for 170 episodes series produced by Mediacorp Channel 8. It stars Xiang Yun, Desmond Tan, Belinda Lee, Tong Bingyu, Dawn Yeoh, Tracy Lee, Julie Tan, Michelle Wong and Zhang Wei as the casts in this series. The show replaced the second half of the 7.00 pm drama timeslot, airing weekdays from April 4, 2016, 7.30 pm to 8.00 pm on weekdays making it the 3rd long form half hour drama airing together with news-current affairs programme Hello Singapore at 6.30pm. Plot ''Peace and Prosperity'' is centered around the lives of the Huang family who have been running a TCM (traditional Chinese medicine) clinic for three generations. The family-run business is on the search for its next successor as the young generation of Huangs are not interested in TCM and have yet to prove themselves capable of running the business. The clinic was founded by Huang Datong's (Zhang Wei) father and is now operated by his daughter-in-law Shen Ping'an ( Xiang Yun), who is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tiger Mum
''Tiger Mum'' () is a Singaporean family drama produced and telecast on MediaCorp Channel 8. The drama began production in November 2014. The series ran from 9 April to 6 May 2015. It stars Yao Wenlong, Huang Biren, Julie Tan, Ian Fang, Bonnie Loo, Aloysius Pang and Jeffrey Xu. This is the second drama appearance of veteran actress Huang Biren since her return to the entertainment industry after a seven-year hiatus. Huang plays the title character in the show. a controlling and demanding tiger mother character. The series is sponsored by the Media Development Authority of Singapore. With the show's viewership constantly breaking the 1 million mark, and its finale attracting more than 1.06 million viewers, ''Tiger Mum'' has been named the ''Top Rated Drama'' of Year 2015 at the recently held Star Awards 2016. This is the second consecutive time a drama starring Huang Biren (after Three Wishes in 2014) has managed to take the top viewership spot. Cast Main cast * Huang Biren as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soup Of Life
''Soup of Life'' () is the tenth Malaysian production by MediaCorp Studios Malaysia. Filming began in 2013 and took place in 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 ..., Malaysia. It stars Yao Wenlong, Ann Kok, Belinda Lee (host), Belinda Lee, Terence Cao, Nat Ho, Zhou Ying (actress), Zhou Ying, Jerry Yeo & Lin Meijiao as the casts of the series. It made its debut in Singapore on 5 February 2014. The show aired at 9pm on weekdays and had a repeat telecast at 8am the following day. The drama is the third Malaysian production set in modern-day to incorporate Singaporean elements after Break Free (TV series), Break Free and The Enchanted (TV series), The Enchanted. As the drama is produced as a Malaysian production, the series was not nominated for any Star Awards ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The In-Laws (TV Series)
''The In-Laws'' () is a Singaporean Chinese drama which was telecasted on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. It stars Louise Lee, Rui En, Pierre Png, Cynthia Koh, Darren Lim, Belinda Lee & Jin Yinji as the casts of the series. It made its debut on 12 April 2011 and has ended on 30 May 2011. This drama serial consists of 35 episodes, and was screened on every weekday night at 9:00 pm. This drama serial was repeated on every Monday to Wednesday at 3:30 pm. It stars the award-winning veteran Hong Kong actress Louise Lee who also acted in the locally produced ''Portrait of Home'' back in 2005. The series title 麻婆斗妇 (ma po dou fu, literally translates as "old lady fights daughter-in-law") is a play on a spicy tofu and beef dish from Sichuan Sichuan is a province in Southwestern China, occupying the Sichuan Basin and Tibetan Plateau—between the Jinsha River to the west, the Daba Mountains to the north, and the Yunnan–Guizhou Plateau to the so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Breakout (Singaporean TV Series)
''Breakout'' () is a Singaporean Chinese drama television series which was broadcast on Singapore's free-to-air channel, MediaCorp Channel 8. The series starred Jeanette Aw, Elvin Ng, Zhou Ying, Christopher Lee, Dai Xiangyu and Guo Liang. It debuted on 6 December 2010 and ended on 7 January 2011. It won Best Drama Serial in 2010 at Star Awards. Title The drama's title translates to the Technical Analysis term in financial markets, referring to super-villain Yang Tianwei's attempt to trade using that strategy so as to get rich quickly enough to seek revenge for his murdered son rather than wait for justice to be meted out. Cast Yang family Tang family Zou Jieming's family Other characters Broadcast It was the tenth Channel 8 drama to be fully filmed in HD and the first to be filmed in Dolby Digital. This drama was encored from 30 November 2011 to 3 January 2012 at midnight, from 28 September 2022 to 25 October 2022 Tue to Sat 12AM, and was now rated as for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
