Pesta Perdana

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Pesta Perdana is a prestigious award show from Singapore, honoring the best local media talent. [1] This yearly event draws entries from programming channels and production houses all across the island, vying for top honors, in the fiercely contested categories. The award show is televised and broadcast 'live' every year since 2001. [2] [3]

Singapore Republic in Southeast Asia

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.

Pesta Perdana is produced by Mediacorp, and hence attracts large numbers of celebrities - local, regional and international. The show is aired domestically on MediaCorp Suria and internationally by Channel News Asia International.

Mediacorp Pte. Ltd. is a media conglomerate based in Singapore. It holds interests in radio, television, digital, print publishing and filmmaking. It runs 6 television channels and 11 radio stations, making it the largest media business in Singapore; it holds a monopoly on free-to-air television in Singapore. It is owned by Temasek Holdings, a state-owned investment arm.

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