Tay Ping Hui is a Singaporean actor and director, known for starring in many Chinese-language television dramas in Singapore and mainland China. In 2014, Tay made his directorial debut with the basketball film Meeting the Giant.
Dr Liang Wern Fook is a Cantonese Singaporean writer, musician, singer and researcher in Chinese literature and pedagogy. He was one of the pioneer figures in xinyao movement in the 1980s and 1990s.
Hong Huifang is a Singaporean actress.
Subramaniam Iswaran, commonly known as S. Iswaran, is a Singaporean former politician who served as Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations between 2018 and 2024 and Minister for Transport between 2021 and 2024. A former member of the governing People's Action Party (PAP), he was the Member of Parliament (MP) representing the West Coast division of West Coast GRC between 2001 and 2024. Iswaran resigned as Minister of Transport, Member of Parliament, and the People's Action Party on 16 January 2024, two days before he pleaded not guilty to 27 charges.
Zheng Zheng is a Chinese professional footballer who plays as a left-back or centre-back for and captains Chinese Super League club Shandong Taishan. He joined Shandong's youth academy at the age of 10 and has spent his entire playing career there since making his debut in 2010.
Zhang Yishan is a prominent Chinese actor and former child star.
Roland Tay is an undertaker in Singapore. He is known for helping the poor and families of murder victims by providing pro-bono funeral arrangements. Memorial services conducted by Tay include Huang Na, Liu Hong Mei, and Ah Meng, a Singapore tourism icon.
Hong Ling is a Singaporean actress.
George Leong is a Singaporean musician, producer and composer.
Song Weilong is a Chinese actor and model. He is best known for his roles as Yuan Song in Find Yourself and as Ling Xiao in Go Ahead.
Tay Kexin is a Singaporean singer-songwriter. She is the younger sister of Tay Kewei. She is currently a member of the Asian Pop-rock vocal band MICappella. She is also an entrepreneur and the founder of Sparkle Live Music along with her elder sister Kewei and the keyboardist Lee Ein Ein.
On 15 September 2003, two Singaporean students and flatmates Tay Chow Lyang (郑潮亮) and Tony Tan Poh Chuan (陈宝川), were found brutally murdered in their flat in Sydney. The boys' fellow classmate and friend Ram Puneet Tiwary, also a Singaporean, was accused of these two violent murders. The case, dubbed the "Sydney double murders" in media, made headlines in both Singapore and Australia.
On 30 October 2010, at Downtown East, Singapore, 19-year-old Darren Ng Wei Jie, a Singaporean student from Republic Polytechnic, was slashed by 12 youths from a rival gang after a staring incident between one of Ng's friends and one of these youths attacking him. Ng suffered from 28 knife wounds and died in Changi General Hospital five hours after the incident. The case was classified as murder, and the police arrested all the suspects. Six of them were charged with murder, but all except one were sentenced to serve lengthy jail terms with caning for culpable homicide, while the others were sentenced to varied jail terms and caning for rioting.
Qi Wannian, or Qiwannian, was an ethnic Di chieftain and rebel leader during the Western Jin dynasty of China. In 296, he became the leader of a tribal uprising against Jin in Qin and Yong provinces that lasted until 299. The rebellion raised concerns among some ministers regarding the tension between the Han and tribal people while also triggering a mass migration of refugees into Hanzhong and Sichuan.
On 19 July 2021, a thirteen-year old Secondary One male student named Ethan Hun Ze Kai was struck to death with a fire fighting axe at River Valley High School in Boon Lay, Singapore, in an incident which was reportedly unprecedented in the history of Singapore. The killer was a sixteen-year-old Secondary Four male student, who was arrested for Ethan's murder shortly afterwards. The boy was initially charged with murdering Ethan; his charge was eventually reduced to manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility, and he was thus sentenced to jail for 16 years on 1 December 2023.
On 10 May 2020, 38-year-old assistant manager Tay Rui Hao was attacked by another person while he was jogging in the night along Punggol Field. Tay, who sustained multiple stab wounds, was able to call the ambulance, but he died at Sengkang General Hospital after reaching there. The police investigations led to the arrest of 20-year-old Surajsrikan Diwakar Mani Tripathi. Surajsrikan was charged with murder a week after killing Tay, and the motive of his crime was supposedly due to the negative emotions he harboured over his father abandoning his family 21 years before on the same date he killed Tay.
My One and Only is a 2023 Singaporean long-form drama series starring Zoe Tay, Brandon Wong, Shaun Chen, Elvin Ng, Ya Hui, Shawn Thia, Fang Rong, and Zhai Siming. It premiered on 27 July 2023, and airs every weekday at 7.30pm on Mediacorp Channel 8.
Public Prosecutor v. S Iswaran is a case brought by the Attorney-General of Singapore against Singaporean former politician Subramaniam Iswaran, who faces 35 charges of "obtaining gratification as a public servant", corruption, and obstructing justice. The lawsuit was precipitated by an investigation of Iswaran's dealings with Malaysian billionaire Ong Beng Seng by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) that officially began on 11 July 2023 and ended sometime before 9 January 2024.
On 22 January 1995, 63-year-old taxi driver Tay Chin Wah fired a revolver at two men, Lee Yang Ping and Soh Keng Ho, who both confronted Tay's girlfriend over a debt she owed to Lee, who was a moneylender. Tay was said to have committed the shooting out of anger over his girlfriend's predicament, and the shooting left Lee injured, and he survived with timely medical intervention. Tay was arrested in Malaysia and brought back for trial five years later, and in February 2001, he was sentenced to death under the Arms Offences Act on charges of illegally discharging his firearm with intent to cause harm. Tay's appeal was dismissed, and he was hanged on 26 October 2001.
