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Heartlanders
''Heartlanders'' is an English language television drama telecast on MediaCorp TV Channel 5. Based on the encounters of two officers of the Singapore Police Force. The first season aired on 5 July 2002, and has since another three seasons have aired, with the last season being shown from 12 July 2005. There are no indications as yet if a fifth season will be produced. While the show evoked comparisons with '' Triple Nine'', telecast from 1995 to 1999, ''Heartlanders'' was distinctively the first Singaporean English television series to be based primarily on uniformed patrol officers. The show was set in the Singaporean heartlands and in a typical public housing setting, hence the name ''Heartlanders''. The show starred Vincent Ng and Aaron Aziz as the main casts. It was Ng's first foray into an English drama, and helped to expose the latter to the non-Malay television audience. Other cast members included Tracy Tan and Natalie Faye in Season 1, Corrine Adrienne in Seasons 1 a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Priscelia Chan
Priscelia Chan Shih Mei, also known as Zeng Shimei, is a Singaporean television actress and host. Career Chan was a tax auditor before taking part in Star Search Singapore 1999. Despite being eliminated in the semifinals, she was offered a contract by TCS (later MediaCorp). She was initially cast in supporting roles in several Chinese-language television dramas produced by MediaCorp Channel 8, and made her debut as a lead actress in ''In Pursuit of Peace'' (2001) and '' Heartlanders III'' (2003). She acted in the mainland Chinese supernatural-fantasy television series '' The Legend and the Hero'' (2007). The series was aired on Channel 8 in 2009. She did not act in as many dramas in 2009 as she took several months off to finish her degree at SIM-RMIT. Apart from acting, Chan has also performed songs for albums released by MediaCorp, with the latest being the MediaCorp 25th Anniversary Soundtrack Album. Chan also worked as a model for two television commercials for Fujifilm an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Julian Hee
Julian Hee (, born 11 June 1978) is a former Singaporean Chinese actor and model. He was a prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2001 to 2014. His younger brother, Haden Hee, 许立楷 was also a former Mediacorp artiste. Career Modeling Before entering the entertainment industry, He was a model. He won Mr. Manhunt Singapore in 2002 and represented Singapore in Manhunt International 2002, which was held in Shanghai. He was a semi-finalist in Mister World 2003. Acting Hee is a full-time actor, formerly signed by MediaCorp Mediacorp Pte. Ltd., doing business as Mediacorp and stylised as mediacorp, is a media conglomerate in Singapore. Owned by Temasek Holdings—the holding company of the Government of Singapore—it owns television, radio, and digital media prope ..., and has performed in both English and Chinese dramas. He made his television debut on the Channel 5 show '' Heartlanders'' (seasons 3 and 4) before switching to Channel 8 Chinese-language dramas. He ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romeo Tan
Tan Romeo (; born 9 April 1985) is a Singaporean actor, who has been named as one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill. Tan came into prominence after finishing in fourth place on the tenth season of the television series ''Star Search'' in 2010. Education Tan studied at Ngee Ann Secondary School and multimedia technology at ITE MacPherson. Acting career Romeo Tan made his television debut on the fourth season of '' Heartlanders'' in 2005. In 2010, after completing his filming for ''The Best Things in Life'', Tan participated in the tenth season of ''Star Search''. He auditioned for the competition and was accepted for the competition. Tan finished in fourth place, losing the title to Jeffrey Xu. He was offered a two-year contract by MediaCorp together with Xu, Adeline Lim, Sora Ma, James Seah, and Darryl Yong. In 2012, Romeo Tan was the first among his fellow ''Star Search'' finalists to be given a supporting role in the critically acclaimed police procedural series '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shaun Chen
Shaun Chen (; born 3 November 1978) is a Malaysian actor and former national badminton player who is based in Singapore. He started as a host for the variety show ''City Beat'' alongside Sharon Au, Jeff Wang and Fiona Xie. In 2003, he made his debut acting in ''True Heroes (TV series), True Heroes'' and ''Holland V (TV Series), Holland V''. He received his first award, the Rocket Award, at the Star Awards 2015. He starred as the lead character in both ''Blessings (TV series), Blessings'' and ''The Journey: Tumultuous Times''. He won the Best Actor award for ''The Journey: Tumultuous Times'' and was voted in the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes list at the Star Awards 2015. Career Prior to coming to Singapore, Chen was a spectacles dealer and model in Malaysia and appeared on billboards for Maxis Communications, Maxis. Early in his career Chen was known for playing villains and earned a Best Supporting Actor nomination in the Star Awards 2006 for his role in ''C.I.D. (Singapo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent Ng
Vincent Ng Cheng Hye (born 6 December 1975), also known as Weng Qinghai, is a Singaporean martial artist and former actor. He was prominently a full-time Mediacorp actor from 1997 to 2007. He is best known for acting in Chinese-language television series produced by MediaCorp Channel 8. Early life Ng born into a family of two parents and two sisters. Career Acting Ng joined MediaCorp after reaching the finals of '' Star Search Singapore'' in 1997. His first foray into English-language television was in the 2002 Channel 5 series ''Heartlanders'' in which he played one of the lead characters. As he was one of few artistes with any formal training in martial arts, he was frequently cast in period and ''wuxia'' television series or as characters requiring fight scenes. He left the entertainment industry in November 2007 to concentrate on running Wufang. Martial arts After obtaining an engineering certificate from the Institute of Technical Education (ITE), Ng competed and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Aziz
Yang Hormat Dato' Aaron Mustapha bin Aziz ( Jawi: ارون مصطفى بن عزيز; born 23 February 1976) is a Singaporean actor, singer and film director currently based in Malaysia. He is largely known in Malaysia and also in some countries such as Taiwan, Hong Kong, India, Brunei and Singapore. He started his acting career in Singapore in 2001 through Shahril in ''Cinta Bollywood'' (2001–2003), then acting as Bob in ''Sepi'' (2001–2002) and as Corporal Jamal Salleh in ''Heartlanders'' (2002–2005). His Singaporean television portrayals include Zack Ahmad in sitcom '' Phua Chu Kang Pte Ltd'' (season 6) and Iqmal in the drama series ''Cinta Q''. He migrated to Malaysia in 2004 to begin his acting career as an assistant character in the ''Haryati drama'' (2004). His acting credits in Malaysia include Emil Emilda, Sadiq & Co, Nora Elena, ''Evolusi KL Drift: The Series'' and ''Kusinero Cinta''. His film credits include '' Evolusi KL Drift'' (2008), ''Bohsia: Jangan Pili ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steph Song
Steph Song () is a Malaysian actress of Chinese heritage, raised in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada and Australia. She was voted sexiest woman in the world by Asian readers of '' FHM'' magazine. Song has received five Leo Award nominations and one Gemini Award nomination for her TV and film work in Canada and the United States. Career Song acted mostly on a freelance basis in Singapore in her early career, and was the female lead in the second season of ''Heartlanders'', as well as the first season of ''Achar!'', which won Bronze Medal at the New York Television Awards and has since been sold to 10 countries. Another show that Steph was in, titled ''Singapore Short Story Project'', won best Drama Series at the Asian Television Awards in 2004. In 2004, Song joined SPH MediaWorks, and was supporting lead in "Perceptions" and female lead in the very last Channel i-produced drama ''Six Weeks'' which won Best Drama Series at the Asian Television Awards 2005. When MediaW ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singapore Police Force
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) is the national and principal law enforcement agency responsible for the prevention of crime and law enforcement in the Republic of Singapore. It is the country's lead agency against organised crime; human, weapon trafficking; cyber crime; as well as economic crime that goes across domestic and international borders, but can be tasked to investigate any crime under the purview of the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and is accountable to the Parliament of Singapore. SPF's main geographical area of responsibilities covers the entire country, consisting of five regions which are further divided into 55 planning areas. The organisation has various staff departments with specific focuses. These include the Airport Police Division (APD), which covers policing of Singapore's main civilian airports of Changi and Seletar, or the Police Coast Guard (PCG), which protects and enforces areas under Singapore's territorial waters and its ports. Formerly k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
English Language
English is a West Germanic language of the Indo-European language family, with its earliest forms spoken by the inhabitants of early medieval England. It is named after the Angles, one of the ancient Germanic peoples that migrated to the island of Great Britain. Existing on a dialect continuum with Scots, and then closest related to the Low Saxon and Frisian languages, English is genealogically West Germanic. However, its vocabulary is also distinctively influenced by dialects of France (about 29% of Modern English words) and Latin (also about 29%), plus some grammar and a small amount of core vocabulary influenced by Old Norse (a North Germanic language). Speakers of English are called Anglophones. The earliest forms of English, collectively known as Old English, evolved from a group of West Germanic ( Ingvaeonic) dialects brought to Great Britain by Anglo-Saxon settlers in the 5th century and further mutated by Norse-speaking Viking settlers starting in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Singaporean Crime Television Series
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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
