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Deborah Moore (Traditional Chinese: 狄寶娜摩亞), born September 21, 1962 in Singapore to Irish father Anthony William Thomas Moore and Chinese mother Julie Yau Mun Ling. The eldest of three children (one younger sister Laura Susan Moore (Gossip) and brother Evan Anthony Moore), Deborah was raised mostly in Hong Kong but spent many childhood summers in England with English relatives.
Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is an island city-state in Southeast Asia. It lies one degree north of the equator, at the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, with Indonesia's Riau Islands to the south and Peninsular Malaysia to the north. Singapore's territory consists of one main island along with 62 other islets. Since independence, extensive land reclamation has increased its total size by 23%. The country is known for its transition from a developing to a developed one in a single generation under the leadership of its founder Lee Kuan Yew.
Hong Kong, officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China and commonly abbreviated as HK, is a special administrative region on the eastern side of the Pearl River estuary in southern China. With over 7.4 million people of various nationalities in a 1,104-square-kilometre (426 sq mi) territory, Hong Kong is the world's fourth most densely populated region.
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to the west and Scotland to the north-northwest. The Irish Sea lies west of England and the Celtic Sea lies to the southwest. England is separated from continental Europe by the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south. The country covers five-eighths of the island of Great Britain, which lies in the North Atlantic, and includes over 100 smaller islands, such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
Left Singapore at the age five to live in Hong Kong, Deborah was educated in Hong Kong and attended Maryknoll Sisters's School (now Marymount Secondary School) for primary and Island School on Bowen Road for secondary. She was interested in Drama at a young age and took drama classes in school. Although she does not read or write Chinese, she speaks Cantonese Semi-fluently and English Fluently.
Marymount Secondary School is a prestigious Band 1 all-girls EMI Roman Catholic Secondary School located in Happy Valley, Hong Kong Island, Hong Kong. The Primary School is Marymount Primary School. Marymount is notable for its progressive values and for its decorated school choir, which has contended for and won numerous international titles. The school is academically rigorous and students are known for excellency in public exams.
Island School is a co-educational international school located on Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong. It is the founding school of the English Schools Foundation, and is still a member. The school has been accredited by international organisations such as the Council of International Schools and the Western Association of Schools and Colleges.
Deborah entered the Miss Hong Kong Pageant in 1981 and won the title Miss Youth (青春小姐). One month later she was crowned 2nd runner up when Miss Hong Kong winner was disqualified and had her title removed. Later that year, she represented Hong Kong in the 1981 Miss International in Japan and won Miss Friendship.
The Miss Hong Kong Pageant, or Miss HK (港姐) for short, is an annual beauty pageant organized by local Hong Kong television station, TVB.
She signed a TV presenter/host contract with TVB and worked there for 9 years hosting many popular programs on TVB's Cantonese channel Jade and English channel Pearl. She was affectionately known to many viewers as Miss Pearl (明珠小姐). During her career at TVB, she acted, sang, danced and appeared in a few movies. She joined Star TV for one year when it was first established in Hong Kong.
Television Broadcasts Limited (TVB) is a television broadcasting company based in Hong Kong. The company operates five free-to-air terrestrial television channels in Hong Kong, with TVB Jade as its main Cantonese language service, and TVB Pearl as its main English service. TVB is headquartered at TVB City at the Tseung Kwan O Industrial Estate.
Deborah left Hong Kong in October 1993 to immigrate to Vancouver. She started working for Fairchild Television that same year and has since been hosting programs on Fairchild TV and Fairchild Radio.
Vancouver is a coastal seaport city in western Canada, located in the Lower Mainland region of British Columbia. As the most populous city in the province, the 2016 census recorded 631,486 people in the city, up from 603,502 in 2011. The Greater Vancouver area had a population of 2,463,431 in 2016, making it the third-largest metropolitan area in Canada. Vancouver has the highest population density in Canada with over 5,400 people per square kilometre, which makes it the fifth-most densely populated city with over 250,000 residents in North America behind New York City, Guadalajara, San Francisco, and Mexico City according to the 2011 census. Vancouver is one of the most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities in Canada according to that census; 52% of its residents have a first language other than English. Roughly 30% of the city's inhabitants are of Chinese heritage. Vancouver is classed as a Beta global city.