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It's a Great, Great World

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It's a Great, Great World is a Singapore film directed by Kelvin Tong. [1]

62 relations: Ah Beng, Apple Hong, Astro Shaw, Battle of Singapore, Bellhop, Ben Yeo, Bombing of Singapore (1941), Bryan Wong, Cantonese, Channel NewsAsia, Chen Gexin, Chen Shucheng, Chen Tianwen, Chew Chor Meng, Dark ride, Dennis Chew, Elizabeth Taylor, Ensemble cast, Getai, Golden Village, Great World Amusement Park, Guo Liang (actor), Gurmit Singh, Hainanese, Hakka Chinese, Henry Thia, Hokkien, Huang Wenyong, Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965, Ix Shen, Joanne Peh, John Cheng, Kelvin Tong, Keppel Harbour, Kimberly Chia, Kym Ng, Lee Kuan Yew, Malaysia, Mandarin Chinese, Marcus Chin, Mediacorp, Mediacorp Channel 8, Mediacorp Channel U, Mediacorp Raintree Pictures, Nancy Sit, Nanyang Siang Pau, Ng Hui, Olivia Ong, Paige Chua, Rose, Rose, I Love You, ..., Sam Tseng, Security guard, Singapore, Taiwan, Teochew dialect, Varieties of Chinese, World War II, Xiang Yun, Yvonne Lim, Zhang Yaodong, Zhang Zhenhuan (actor), Zheng Geping. Expand index (12 more) »

Ah Beng

Ah Beng is a stereotype applied to a certain group of young Chinese men in Southeast Asia, particularly Singapore and Malaysia.

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Apple Hong

Apple Hong is a Malaysian actress and singer.

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Astro Shaw

Astro Shaw Sdn Bhd is a Malaysian film production company, and is one of the leading producers, along with Tayangan Unggul.

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Battle of Singapore

The Battle of Singapore, also known as the Fall of Singapore, was fought in the South-East Asian theatre of World War II when the Empire of Japan invaded the British stronghold of Singapore—nicknamed the "Gibraltar of the East".

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Bellhop

A bellhop (North America) or hotel porter (international) is a hotel porter, who helps patrons with their luggage while checking in or out.

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Ben Yeo

Ben Yeo is a Mediacorp actor and television host.

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Bombing of Singapore (1941)

The bombing of Singapore was an attack on 8 December 1941 by seventeen G3M ''Nell'' bombers of Mihoro Air Group (Mihoro Kaigun Kōkūtai), Imperial Japanese Navy, flying from Thu Dau Mot in southern Indochina.

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Bryan Wong

Bryan Wong (born on 30 January 1971) is a MediaCorp TV actor and television host.

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Cantonese

The Cantonese language is a variety of Chinese spoken in the city of Guangzhou (historically known as Canton) and its surrounding area in southeastern China.

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Channel NewsAsia

Channel NewsAsia (abbreviated CNA) is a 24-hour television news channel and news agency based in Singapore, broadcasting free-to-air domestically and by cable television and satellite television to 28 territories in Asia, the Middle East and Australia.

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Chen Gexin

Chen Gexin (September 19, 1914 — January 25, 1961) was a Chinese popular music songwriter.

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Chen Shucheng

Tan Soo Seng, better known as Chen Shucheng, (born October 21, 1949) is a Mediacorp actor.

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Chen Tianwen

Chai Tian Bian or better known as Chen Tianwen is a Mediacorp veteran actor.

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Chew Chor Meng

Chew Chor Meng (born 20 November 1967), also known as Zhou Chuming, is a Singaporean television actor and contracted artiste under MediaCorp.

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Dark ride

A dark ride or ghost train is an indoor amusement ride on which passengers aboard guided vehicles travel through specially lit scenes that typically contain animation, sound, music and special effects.

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Dennis Chew

Dennis Chew Chong Kheng (born 15 August), also known as Zhou Chongqing, is a Mediacorp radio deejay, actor, variety show host, singer.

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Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-born American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian.

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Ensemble cast

An ensemble cast is made up of cast members in which multiple principal actors and performers are assigned roughly equal amounts of importance and screen time in a dramatic production.

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Getai

A getai (literally song stage) (Simplified Chinese: 歌台), is a usually boisterous live stage performance held during the Ghost Festival commonly held in Singapore, Malaysia and some parts of Indonesia (mainly in Riau, Riau Islands and North Sumatra), in contrast to the generally solemn mood of the festival.

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Golden Village

Golden Village is a cinema operator based in Singapore, fully owned by Orange Sky Golden Harvest of Hong Kong.

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Great World Amusement Park

The Great World Amusement Park also known locally as "Tua Seh Kai" in Hokkien, was the second of three former amusement parks in Singapore, along with New World (established 1923) and Gay World (established 1936).

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Guo Liang (actor)

Guo Liang (born 11 November 1968) is a Mediacorp actor and television host, who is based in Singapore.

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Gurmit Singh

Gurmit Ottawan Singh (born 24 March 1965; ਗੁਰਮੀਤ ਓਤ੍ਤਵਨ ਸਿੰਘ), better known as Gurmit Singh, is a Singaporean former actor, host and comedy performer.

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Hainanese

Hainanese (Hainan Romanised), also known as Qióng Wén or Qióng yǔ (瓊語/琼语), is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the southern Chinese island province of Hainan.

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Hakka Chinese

Hakka, also rendered Kejia, is one of the major groups of varieties of Chinese, spoken natively by the Hakka people throughout southern China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and throughout the diaspora areas of East Asia, Southeast Asia, and in overseas Chinese communities around the world.

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Henry Thia

Henry Thia (born 25 February 1952) is a Singaporean former actor and comedian.

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Hokkien

Hokkien (from) or (閩南語/閩南話), is a Southern Min Chinese dialect group originating from the Minnan region in the south-eastern part of Fujian Province in Southeastern China and Taiwan, and spoken widely there and by the Chinese diaspora in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and other parts of Southeast Asia, and by other overseas Chinese all over the world.

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Huang Wenyong

Huang Wenyong (25 July 1952 – 20 April 2013) was a Malaysia-born Singaporean former actor and former teacher of Chinese descent.

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Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965

The Independence of Singapore Agreement 1965 was an agreement between the Government of Malaysia and the Government of Singapore that granted independence to Singapore with effect from 9 August 1965.

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Ix Shen

Ix Shen (沈倾, formerly 沈倾掞), also known as Shen Qing, is a Singaporean former television actor, now working in film production.

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Joanne Peh

Joanne Peh Wei Siew (born 25 April 1983), known professionally as Joanne Peh or Bai Wei Xiu 白薇秀, is a Mediacorp actress.

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John Cheng

John Cheng Yeow Nam (also credited as Zhong Yao Nan; known in entertainment circle as Ah Nan or Ah Nam) (1961 – 22 January 2013) was a Singaporean actor and Getai compere who made his screen debut in Money No Enough and was most notable for his criminal figure roles in various media.

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Kelvin Tong

Kelvin Tong Weng Kian (Simplified Chinese: 唐永健) is a Singaporean film director, screenwriter and producer.

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Keppel Harbour

Keppel Harbour (Pelabuhan Keppel), also called the Keppel Channel, is a stretch of water in Singapore between the mainland and the southern islands of Pulau Brani and Sentosa (formerly Pulau Blakang Mati).

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Kimberly Chia

Kimberly Chia (born August 7, 1995) is a Mediacorp actress & managed under NoonTalk Media.

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Kym Ng

Ng Kwee Khim, best known by her stage name Kym Ng, is a Mediacorp television host and actress.

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Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ (16 September 1923 – 23 March 2015), commonly referred to by his initials LKY, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades.

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Malaysia

Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia.

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Mandarin Chinese

Mandarin is a group of related varieties of Chinese spoken across most of northern and southwestern China.

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Marcus Chin

Chi On Kang or better known as Marcus Chin (born 1954) is a Singaporean former actor, host and singer.

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Mediacorp

Mediacorp Pte.

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Mediacorp Channel 8

Mediacorp Channel 8 or Channel 8 (Before 1 January 2005: 第八波道) is Singapore's first free-to-air Mandarin television channel in Singapore. It is the first of two Singapore Mandarin over-the-air television channels in Singapore, with the other being Mediacorp Channel U. It was created by Radio and Television Singapore (RTS) on 23 November 1963 as Singapore's only Chinese-medium channel. From 6 May 2001 to 31 December 2004, it serves as an alternative Chinese channel to SPH MediaWorks Channel U. After SPH MediaWorks and Mediacorp merged on 1 January 2005, it now serves as a complementary to Mediacorp Channel U.

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Mediacorp Channel U

Mediacorp Channel U or Channel U (U频道; pinyin: U Píndào) is Singapore's second free-to-air Mandarin television channel in Singapore.

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Mediacorp Raintree Pictures

Mediacorp Raintree Pictures is a film production company based in Singapore.

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Nancy Sit

Nancy Sit Ka Yin (Chinese: 薛家燕, MH born 30 March 1950) is a Hong Kong actress on the TVB network.

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Nanyang Siang Pau

Nanyang Siang Pau or Nanyang Business Daily was founded by philanthropist-entrepreneur Tan Kah Kee on 6 September 1923 in Singapore, currently published in Malaysia.

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Ng Hui

Ng Hui (born July 22, 1979) is a Singaporean actress and television host.She was prominently a full-time Mediacorp artiste from 2000 to 2012.

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Olivia Ong

Olivia Ong (Chinese: 王俪婷; born in Singapore) is a Singaporean singer and actress.

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Paige Chua

Paige Chua (born 25 June 1981) is a Mediacorp actress and television host.

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Rose, Rose, I Love You

"Rose, Rose, I Love You" is a 1940 Mandarin popular song composed by Chen Gexin and first recorded by Yao Lee.

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Sam Tseng

Sam Tseng (born January 29, 1968) is a Taiwanese television host and actor.

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Security guard

A security guard (also known as a security officer or protective agent) is a person employed by a public or private party to protect the employing party’s assets (property, people, equipment, money, etc.) from a variety of hazards (such as waste, damaged property, unsafe worker behavior, criminal activity such as theft, etc.) by enforcing preventative measures.

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Singapore

Singapore, officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign city-state and island country in Southeast Asia.

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Taiwan

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), is a state in East Asia.

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Teochew dialect

Teochew (Chaozhou dialect: Diê⁵ziu¹ uê⁷; Shantou dialect: Dio⁵ziu¹ uê⁷) is a variant of Southern Min spoken mainly by the Teochew people in the Chaoshan region of eastern Guangdong and by their diaspora around the world.

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Varieties of Chinese

Chinese, also known as Sinitic, is a branch of the Sino-Tibetan language family consisting of hundreds of local language varieties, many of which are not mutually intelligible.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Xiang Yun

Chen Cuichang (born 27 October 1961), better known by her stage name Xiang Yun, is a Mediacorp actress & television host.

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Yvonne Lim

Yvonne Lim (born 28 September 1976) is a Mediacorp actress and managed under Lafeng Entertainment.

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Zhang Yaodong

Zhang Yaodong (born Teoh Yeow Tong on 17 December 1977) is a Mediacorp actor based in Singapore.

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Zhang Zhenhuan (actor)

Zhang Zhenhuan is a Mediacorp actor, who is based in Singapore.

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Zheng Geping

Tay Kok Peng (born 27 May 1964), also known as Zheng Geping, is a Mediacorp actor.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It's_a_Great,_Great_World

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