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Malaysia
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Malaysia is a federal constitutional monarchy located in Southeast Asia. Peninsular Malaysia shares a land and maritime border with Thailand and maritime borders with Singapore, Vietnam, East Malaysia shares land and maritime borders with Brunei and Indonesia and a maritime border with the Philippines and Vietnam. The capital city is Kuala Lumpur, while Putrajaya is the seat of the federal government, with a population of over 30 million, Malaysia is the 44th most populous country. The southernmost point of continental Eurasia, Tanjung Piai, is in Malaysia, located in the tropics, Malaysia is one of 17 megadiverse countries on earth, with large numbers of endemic species. Malaysia has its origins in the Malay kingdoms present in the area which, from the 18th century, the first British territories were known as the Straits Settlements, whose establishment was followed by the Malay kingdoms becoming British protectorates. The territories on Peninsular Malaysia were first unified as the Malayan Union in 1946, Malaya was restructured as the Federation of Malaya in 1948, and achieved independence on 31 August 1957. Malaya united with North Borneo, Sarawak, and Singapore on 16 September 1963 to become Malaysia, less than two years later in 1965, Singapore was expelled from the federation. The country is multi-ethnic and multi-cultural, which plays a role in politics. About half the population is ethnically Malay, with minorities of Malaysian Chinese, Malaysian Indians. The constitution declares Islam the state religion while allowing freedom of religion for non-Muslims, the government system is closely modelled on the Westminster parliamentary system and the legal system is based on common law. The head of state is the king, known as the Yang di-Pertuan Agong and he is an elected monarch chosen from the hereditary rulers of the nine Malay states every five years. The head of government is the prime minister, since its independence, Malaysia has had one of the best economic records in Asia, with its GDP growing at an average of 6. 5% per annum for almost 50 years. The economy has traditionally been fuelled by its resources, but is expanding in the sectors of science, tourism, commerce. Today, Malaysia has a newly industrialised market economy, ranked third largest in Southeast Asia, the name Malaysia is a combination of the word Malay and the Latin-Greek suffix -sia/-σία. The word melayu in Malay may derive from the Tamil words malai and ur meaning mountain and city, land, malayadvipa was the word used by ancient Indian traders when referring to the Malay Peninsula. Whether or not it originated from these roots, the word melayu or mlayu may have used in early Malay/Javanese to mean to steadily accelerate or run. This term was applied to describe the current of the river Melayu in Sumatra. The name was adopted by the Melayu Kingdom that existed in the seventh century on Sumatra
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"Malaysia" used as a label for the
Malay Archipelago on a 1914 map from a United States atlas
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Flag
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The Dutch fleet battling with the Portuguese armada as part of the
Dutch–Portuguese War in 1606 to gain control of
Malacca.
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Statue of
Francis Light in the
Fort Cornwallis of Penang, marking the first step of
British expansion in the 18th century over the Malay Archipelago.
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States of Malaysia
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The states and federal territories of Malaysia are the principal administrative divisions of Malaysia. Malaysia is a federation comprising thirteen states and three federal territories, eleven states and two federal territories are located on the Malay Peninsula, collectively called Peninsular Malaysia or West Malaysia. Two states are on the island of Borneo, and the remaining one federal territory consists of islands offshore of Borneo, out of the 13 states in Malaysia,9 of the states are hereditary monarchies. The governance of the states is divided between the government and the state governments, while the federal territories are directly administered by the federal government. The specific responsibilities of the federal and the governments are listed in the Ninth Schedule of the Constitution of Malaysia. Theoretically, any matter not set out in the Ninth Schedule can be legislated on by the individual states, however, legal scholars generally view this as a paupers bequest because of the large scope of the matters listed in the Ninth Schedule. The courts themselves have generally favoured a broad interpretation of the language of the Ninth Schedule, the Ninth Schedule specifically lists the following matters as those that can only be legislated on by the states, land tenure, the Islamic religion, and local government. Nine of the states, based on historical Malay kingdoms, are known as the Malay states. Each Malay state has a ruler as titular head of state. The rulers of Johor, Kedah, Kelantan, Pahang, Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilans elective ruler holds the title of Yamtuan Besar, whereas the ruler of Perlis is titled Raja. The federal head of state, the Yang di-Pertuan Agong is elected among the nine rulers to serve a 5-year term and they have separate immigration policies and controls and a unique residency status. Each state has a legislature called Dewan Undangan Negeri. Members of DUN are elected from single-member constituencies drawn based on population, the state leader of the majority party in DUN is usually appointed Chief Minister by the Ruler or Governor. The term of DUN members is five years unless the assembly is dissolved earlier by the Ruler or Governor on the advice of the Chief Minister, however, Rulers and Governors hold discretionary powers in withholding consent to dissolve the DUN. Each state sends two senators elected by the DUN to the Dewan Negara, the house of the federal parliament. The law in question must also be passed by the assembly as well. Non-Islamic issues that fall under the purview of the state may also be legislated on at the level for the purpose of conforming with Malaysian treaty obligations. Each state is divided into districts, which are then divided into mukim
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Malaysia
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Pahang
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Pahang is the third largest state in Malaysia, after Sarawak and Sabah, and the largest in Peninsular Malaysia. The state occupies the huge Pahang River river basin and it is bordered to the north by Kelantan, to the west by Perak, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, to the south by Johor and to the east by Terengganu and the South China Sea. Its state capital is Kuantan, and the seat is at Pekan. Other important towns include Jerantut, Kuala Lipis, Temerloh and the resorts of Genting Highlands, Cameron Highlands, Bukit Tinggi. The Arabic honorific of Pahang is Darul Makmur, based on Chinese records, Pahang was known to the Chinese as Phang or Pahangh, other variations include Pang-Hang, Pang-Heng, Pong-Fong, Phe-Hang, and Pang-Kang and others. In 1225, Chau Ju-Kua wrote the book Chu-Fan-Chi and mentioned that amongst the states controlled by San-Fo-Chi was one called Peng-Keng, supposedly modern day Pahang. The Arabs and Europeans at that time called it as Pam, Pan, Phang, Paam, Poa, Paon, Phamm, Paham, Fanhan, Phang, G. R Tibbets, a historian who commented the story written by Masudi thought that Fanjab was Pahang. He preferred to call it Fanhan, Panghang/Panhang, rather than Fanjab, the name Pahang has been said to originate from the language of a Siamese aborigines tribe, meaning ore. The aborigines used to live here and opened up several mining areas, according to an old Malay story, at the place near the Pahang River, on the opposite side of Kampung Kembahang, a large mahang tree fell across the river, thus the name Pahang originated. Evidence for nomadic tribes living in the Pahang area go back to the Mesolithic Era, after the Srivijaya empire collapsed, around the 1000, Pahang was claimed first by Majapahit, Siam, and then by Sultanate of Malacca. Pahang was fought over by the Portuguese, the Dutch, Johor, during this time, its population was mostly killed or enslaved, its rulers murdered and its economy ruined. After the decline of Aceh in the century, Pahang came under the rule of Johor. However, Sultans of Pahang, descended from the Malacca and the Bendahara Johor royal dynasties, have ruled the state almost continuously from 1470, from 1858 to 1863, Pahang was fought over in a civil war between the two sons of the reigning Bendahara. In 1896, Pahang joined Selangor, Perak, and Negeri Sembilan in the Federated Malay States and this evolved into the Federation of Malaya in 1948 and into the Federation of Malaysia in 1963. Rainforest covers much of the highlands, but it tends to be thinner, ferns are also extremely common, thanks mainly to the high humidity and fog that permeates the area. The Cameron Highlands area in the west is home to extensive tea plantations, the area is the highest on the mainland, and the climate is temperate enough to have distinct temperature variations year round. The area is known as a major supplier of legumes and vegetables to both Malaysia and Singapore. Genting Highlands is known as Malaysias playground and it is home to several hotels, a theme park and Malaysias only casino
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The 17th century
Mao Kun map based on the early 15th century navigation maps of
Zheng He showing
Pahang River estuary (彭杭港), Pulau Siribuat (石礁) and
Pulau Tioman (苧麻山).
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Cameron Highlands
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Teluk Chempedak.
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Kuantan, capital of Pahang.
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Daylight saving time
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Daylight saving time is the practice of advancing clocks during summer months by one hour so that evening daylight lasts an hour longer, while sacrificing normal sunrise times. Typically, regions that use Daylight Savings Time adjust clocks forward one hour close to the start of spring, American inventor and politician Benjamin Franklin proposed a form of daylight time in 1784. New Zealander George Hudson proposed the idea of saving in 1895. The German Empire and Austria-Hungary organized the first nationwide implementation, starting on April 30,1916, many countries have used it at various times since then, particularly since the energy crisis of the 1970s. The practice has both advocates and critics, DST clock shifts sometimes complicate timekeeping and can disrupt travel, billing, record keeping, medical devices, heavy equipment, and sleep patterns. Computer software often adjusts clocks automatically, but policy changes by various jurisdictions of DST dates, industrialized societies generally follow a clock-based schedule for daily activities that do not change throughout the course of the year. The time of day that individuals begin and end work or school, North and south of the tropics daylight lasts longer in summer and shorter in winter, with the effect becoming greater as one moves away from the tropics. However, they will have one hour of daylight at the start of each day. Supporters have also argued that DST decreases energy consumption by reducing the need for lighting and heating, DST is also of little use for locations near the equator, because these regions see only a small variation in daylight in the course of the year. After ancient times, equal-length civil hours eventually supplanted unequal, so civil time no longer varies by season, unequal hours are still used in a few traditional settings, such as some monasteries of Mount Athos and all Jewish ceremonies. This 1784 satire proposed taxing window shutters, rationing candles, and waking the public by ringing church bells, despite common misconception, Franklin did not actually propose DST, 18th-century Europe did not even keep precise schedules. However, this changed as rail transport and communication networks came to require a standardization of time unknown in Franklins day. Modern DST was first proposed by the New Zealand entomologist George Hudson, whose shift work job gave him time to collect insects. An avid golfer, he also disliked cutting short his round at dusk and his solution was to advance the clock during the summer months, a proposal he published two years later. The proposal was taken up by the Liberal Member of Parliament Robert Pearce, a select committee was set up to examine the issue, but Pearces bill did not become law, and several other bills failed in the following years. Willett lobbied for the proposal in the UK until his death in 1915, william Sword Frost, mayor of Orillia, Ontario, introduced daylight saving time in the municipality during his tenure from 1911 to 1912. Starting on April 30,1916, the German Empire and its World War I ally Austria-Hungary were the first to use DST as a way to conserve coal during wartime, Britain, most of its allies, and many European neutrals soon followed suit. Russia and a few other countries waited until the year
Daylight saving time
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Ancient
water clock that lets hour lengths vary with season.
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G. V. Hudson invented modern DST, proposing it first in 1895.
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Retailers generally favor DST.
United Cigar Stores hailed a 1918 DST bill.
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William Willett independently proposed DST in 1907 and advocated it tirelessly.
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UTC
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Coordinated Universal Time, abbreviated to UTC, is the primary time standard by which the world regulates clocks and time. It is within about 1 second of mean time at 0° longitude. It is one of closely related successors to Greenwich Mean Time. For most purposes, UTC is considered interchangeable with GMT, the first Coordinated Universal Time was informally adopted on 1 January 1960. This change also adopted leap seconds to simplify future adjustments, a number of proposals have been made to replace UTC with a new system that would eliminate leap seconds, but no consensus has yet been reached. Leap seconds are inserted as necessary to keep UTC within 0.9 seconds of universal time, see the Current number of leap seconds section for the number of leap seconds inserted to date. The official abbreviation for Coordinated Universal Time is UTC and this abbreviation arose from a desire by the International Telecommunication Union and the International Astronomical Union to use the same abbreviation in all languages. English speakers originally proposed CUT, while French speakers proposed TUC, the compromise that emerged was UTC, which conforms to the pattern for the abbreviations of the variants of Universal Time. Time zones around the world are expressed using positive or negative offsets from UTC, the westernmost time zone uses UTC−12, being twelve hours behind UTC, the easternmost time zone, theoretically, uses UTC+12, being twelve hours ahead of UTC. In 1995, the nation of Kiribati moved those of its atolls in the Line Islands from UTC-10 to UTC+14 so that the country would all be on the same day. UTC is used in internet and World Wide Web standards. The Network Time Protocol, designed to synchronise the clocks of computers over the internet, computer servers, online services and other entities that rely on having a universally accepted time use UTC as it is more specific than GMT. If only limited precision is needed, clients can obtain the current UTC from a number of official internet UTC servers, for sub-microsecond precision, clients can obtain the time from satellite signals. UTC is also the standard used in aviation, e. g. for flight plans. Weather forecasts and maps all use UTC to avoid confusion about time zones, the International Space Station also uses UTC as a time standard. Amateur radio operators often schedule their radio contacts in UTC, because transmissions on some frequencies can be picked up by many time zones, UTC is also used in digital tachographs used on large goods vehicles under EU and AETR rules. UTC divides time into days, hours, minutes and seconds, days are conventionally identified using the Gregorian calendar, but Julian day numbers can also be used. Each day contains 24 hours and each hour contains 60 minutes, the number of seconds in a minute is usually 60, but with an occasional leap second, it may be 61 or 59 instead
UTC
UTC
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Genting Group
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Genting Group is a Malaysian conglomerate. The Genting Group was founded in 1965 by the late Malaysian entrepreneur Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, the Genting Group is headed by Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay, the chairman and Chief Executive, who joined the group in 1976. The groups pioneer integrated resort is Resorts World Genting, formerly known as Genting Highlands Resort, the main attractions of the resort are its casino, theme park, concert shows, food & beverage and retail shopping. The Genting Group, via Tan Sri Lim Kok Thay is the founder of Star Cruises the third largest cruise company in the world. Star Cruises, which was renamed Genting Hong Kong in 2009, is listed on Singapore, the Genting Group currently owns about 19. 9% of Genting Hong Kong. The Group employs over 58,000 globally and possesses 4,500 hectares of prime land and 133,500 hectares of land for plantation. The groups combined market capitalisation amounted to US$24 billion as of 23 February 2016, Genting Group has assets totalling US$16.6 billion, as at 31 December 2010. Genting Berhad is the parent company and holding company that manages investment in other companies, listed on Bursa Malaysia, with market capitalisation of US$9.4 billion as at 31 December 2014. Genting Singapore PLC – – investment holding company, market Capitalisation is US$9.9 billion as of 31 December 2014. Genting UK is the largest casino operator in the United Kingdom, listed on Bursa Malaysia with market capitalisation of US$6.6 billion as of 31 December 2014. Genting Hong Kong Limited – formerly known as Star Cruises Limited, is a leading global leisure, entertainment and hospitality enterprise, listed in Hong Kong and Singapore stock exchange with US$2.8 billion market capitalisation as of 31 December 2014. Genting Plantations Berhad – this is involved in plantations, biotechnology and property, Genting Plantations owns 133,000 hectares of land in Malaysia and Indonesia. It is one of the leading and lowest cost palm oil producers in Malaysia, listed on Bursa Malaysia with US$2.2 billion market capitalisation as of 31 December 2014. Arkana, LTD – is a solely owned US-based subsidiary of Genting Berhad financing Indian gambling developments, in December 2006, Genting Group won the bid in obtaining one of two Singapore casino licences to build an integrated resort, named Resorts World Sentosa, under Genting Singapore. The project requirements includes hotel, gambling, leisure facilities, convention space, in July 2007, Genting Group disposed of its paper and packaging business. In August 2009, Genting Hong Kong opened Resorts World Manila in partnership with Alliance Global Group and it is one of four groups that won approval in 2008 to build hotels and casinos as part of Philippines US$20 billion Pagcor City development on Manila Bay. In June 2009, Genting Group supported the capital raising exercise of MGM Mirage, in September 2010, Genting New York won a bid to build a racino at Aqueduct Race Track in New York City, the first step of a planned expansion in the United States. Among the attributes of the plan was providing a diversion for passengers on long stays at John F. Kennedy International Airport, Resorts World New York opened in October 2011
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Resorts World Genting, Malaysia.
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Maxims Casino, Southend.
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Geographic coordinate system
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A geographic coordinate system is a coordinate system used in geography that enables every location on Earth to be specified by a set of numbers, letters or symbols. The coordinates are chosen such that one of the numbers represents a vertical position. A common choice of coordinates is latitude, longitude and elevation, to specify a location on a two-dimensional map requires a map projection. The invention of a coordinate system is generally credited to Eratosthenes of Cyrene. Ptolemy credited him with the adoption of longitude and latitude. Ptolemys 2nd-century Geography used the prime meridian but measured latitude from the equator instead. Mathematical cartography resumed in Europe following Maximus Planudes recovery of Ptolemys text a little before 1300, in 1884, the United States hosted the International Meridian Conference, attended by representatives from twenty-five nations. Twenty-two of them agreed to adopt the longitude of the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, the Dominican Republic voted against the motion, while France and Brazil abstained. France adopted Greenwich Mean Time in place of local determinations by the Paris Observatory in 1911, the latitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle between the equatorial plane and the straight line that passes through that point and through the center of the Earth. Lines joining points of the same latitude trace circles on the surface of Earth called parallels, as they are parallel to the equator, the north pole is 90° N, the south pole is 90° S. The 0° parallel of latitude is designated the equator, the plane of all geographic coordinate systems. The equator divides the globe into Northern and Southern Hemispheres, the longitude of a point on Earths surface is the angle east or west of a reference meridian to another meridian that passes through that point. All meridians are halves of great ellipses, which converge at the north and south poles, the prime meridian determines the proper Eastern and Western Hemispheres, although maps often divide these hemispheres further west in order to keep the Old World on a single side. The antipodal meridian of Greenwich is both 180°W and 180°E, the combination of these two components specifies the position of any location on the surface of Earth, without consideration of altitude or depth. The grid formed by lines of latitude and longitude is known as a graticule, the origin/zero point of this system is located in the Gulf of Guinea about 625 km south of Tema, Ghana. To completely specify a location of a feature on, in, or above Earth. Earth is not a sphere, but a shape approximating a biaxial ellipsoid. It is nearly spherical, but has an equatorial bulge making the radius at the equator about 0. 3% larger than the radius measured through the poles, the shorter axis approximately coincides with the axis of rotation
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Longitude lines are perpendicular and latitude lines are parallel to the equator.
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Summit (topography)
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A summit is a point on a surface that is higher in elevation than all points immediately adjacent to it. Mathematically, a summit is a maximum in elevation. The topographic terms acme, apex, peak, and zenith are synonymous, the UIAA definition is that a summit is independent if it has a prominence of 30 metres or more, it is a mountain if it has a prominence of at least 300 metres. This can be summarised as follows, A pyramidal peak is an exaggerated form produced by ice erosion of a mountain top, Summit may also refer to the highest point along a line, trail, or route. In many parts of the western United States, the term refers to the highest point along a road, highway. For example, the highest point along Interstate 80 in California is referred to as Donner Summit while the highest point on Interstate 5 is Siskiyou Mountain Summit, geoid Hill List of highest mountains Maxima and minima Nadir Summit accordance Peak finder
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The highest elevation summit, Mount Everest, shown with a climber at the summit wearing an oxygen mask. The summit is 8850 m (29,035 ft) elevation. (While the cruising altitude of jetliners is roughly 10,000 m (32,808 feet), they are pressurized.)
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View from the summit of Switzerland's highest,
Monte Rosa
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The summit of
Mount Damavand,
Iran, in winter
Summit (topography)
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Jeff Davis Peak, one of the highest peaks entirely within
Nevada
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Malay language
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Malay is a major language of the Austronesian family. It has a status in Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia. As the Bahasa Kebangsaan or Bahasa Nasional of several states, Standard Malay has various official names, in Singapore and Brunei it is called Bahasa Melayu, in Malaysia, Bahasa Malaysia, and in Indonesia, Bahasa Indonesia and is designated the Bahasa Persatuan/Pemersatu. However, in areas of central to southern Sumatra where the language is indigenous, Indonesians refer to it as Bahasa Melayu and consider it one of their regional languages. There are also several Malay trade and creole languages which are based on a lingua franca derived from Classical Malay, as well as Macassar Malay, Malay historical linguists agree on the likelihood of the Malay homeland being in western Borneo stretching to the Bruneian coast. A form known as Proto-Malay language was spoken in Borneo at least by 1000 BCE and was, it has been argued, the ancestral language of all subsequent Malayan languages. The history of the Malay language can be divided into five periods, Old Malay, the Transitional Period, the Malacca Period, Late Modern Malay and it is not clear that Old Malay was actually the ancestor of Classical Malay, but this is thought to be quite possible. Old Malay was influenced by Sanskrit literary language of Classical India, Sanskrit loanwords can be found in Old Malay vocabulary. Batenburg on November 29,1920 at Kedukan Bukit, South Sumatra, on the banks of the Tatang and it is a small stone of 45 by 80 centimetres. The earliest surviving manuscript in Malay is the Tanjong Tanah Law in post-Pallava letters and this 14th-century pre-Islamic legal text produced in the Adityawarman era of Dharmasraya, a Hindu-Buddhist kingdom that arose after the end of Srivijayan rule in Sumatra. The laws were for the Minangkabau people, who still live in the highlands of Sumatra. The Malay language came into use as the lingua franca of the Malacca Sultanate. During this period, the Malay language developed rapidly under the influence of Islamic literature, the development changed the nature of the language with massive infusion of Arabic, Malayalam and Sanskrit vocabularies, called Classical Malay. Under the Sultanate of Malacca the language evolved into a form recognisable to speakers of modern Malay, however, there is no connection between Malaccan Malay as used on Riau and the Riau vernacular. One of the oldest surviving letters written in Malay is a letter from Sultan Abu Hayat of Ternate, Maluku Islands in present-day Indonesia, the letter is addressed to the king of Portugal, following contact with Portuguese explorer Francisco Serrão. The letters show sign of non-native usage, the Ternateans used the unrelated Ternate language, Malay was used solely as a lingua franca for inter-ethnic communications. Malay is a member of the Austronesian family of languages, which includes languages from Southeast Asia, malagasy, a geographic outlier spoken in Madagascar in the Indian Ocean, is also a member of this language family. Although each language of the family is mutually unintelligible, their similarities are rather striking, many roots have come virtually unchanged from their common ancestor, Proto-Austronesian language
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Malay Traffic-signs
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Koc Wanita street sign in Malay.
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Hill resort
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A hill station is a town located at a higher elevation than the nearby plain or valley. The term was used mostly in colonial Asia, but also in Africa, for towns founded by European colonial rulers as refuges from the summer heat, up where temperatures are cooler. In the Indian context most hill stations are at an altitude of approximately 1,000 to 2,500 metres, Hill stations in India were established for a variety of reasons. Other factors included anxieties about the dangers of life in India, the hill stations were meant to reproduce the home country, illustrated in Lord Lyttons statement about Ootacamund, in the 1870s, such beautiful English rain, such delicious English mud. Shimla was officially made the capital of India in the 1860s and hill stations served as vital centers of political and military power. Dane Kennedy, following Monika Bührlein, identifies three stages in the evolution of hill stations in India, high refuge, high refuge to hill station, the first settlements started in the 1820s, primarily as sanitoria. In the 1840s and 1850s, there was a wave of new stations, with the main impetus being places to rest. In the second half of the 19th century, there was a period of consolidation with few new hill stations, in the final phase, hill stations reached their zenith in the late nineteenth century. The political importance of the stations was underscored by the inauguration of large. The Great Hill Stations of Asia, the Magic Mountains, Hill Stations and the British Raj. Berkeley, University of California Press,1996, booknotes interview with Barbara Crossette on The Great Hill Stations of Asia, August 23,1998
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Mount Abu,
Rajasthan,India
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Khajjiar,
Himachal Pradesh, India
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Antsirabe, Madagascar
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Ifrane, Morocco
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Bentong
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Bentong is a town, a district and a parliamentary constituency in western Pahang, Malaysia. The district covers an area of 1,831 km² and includes the resort of Genting Highlands. It is located 80 km northeast of Kuala Lumpur, just across the main range, the original main street going into Bentong town has been modified to a dual carriageway. It is bordered by Selangor on the west and Negeri Sembilan on the south, according to an old story, Bentong was previously known as Kapong. It was changed from Kapong to Bentong before World War I, in earlier times, the center of Bentong was around the market area, at the meeting point of the rivers Repas and Perting. The most important transportation way at that time was the rivers by using perahu, the jetty was situated in front of current rest house. Bentong became a point when tin ore was discovered in the two main rivers, Repas and Perting. Tin developers constructed ‘ban’ to extract ore, hence more profits. The practice became a matter to the people outside Bentong. ‘Ban Untung’ became more well-known than Kapong that later began to call it Ban Untung. From the name ‘Ban Untung’ was what the name for the district of Bentong derived from, from other story, according to Pak Zek, the name Bentong originated from ‘Bapong’. Bentong was once used as a fort by Dato’ Bahaman, the British army sent over the Gurkhas mercenary to defeat Dato’ Bahaman to take over the area. However, a number of the Gurkhas were killed after they were ambushed by Dato’ Bahaman’s men and their bodies were thrown into the river and floated in the water. Following the incident, the site was known as Bapong, the exact date of the name change was on 31 August 1957. Bentong is both a town and a district situated in the west side of Pahang Darul Makmur, Malaysia, in the beginning, Bentong subdistrict was under the administration of district of Raub. The administration was separated in 1919 due to the size of the district of Raub. The district covers an area of 183,112.35 hectares and it is located northeast of Kuala Lumpur, just across the main mountain range, Titiwangsa Mountains. The original main street going into Bentong town has been modified to a dual carriageway, however, the part of the road which leads to Raub and Kuala Lipis had been upgraded
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Bentong ﺑﻨﺘﻮڠ
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Loke Yew Street in Bentong
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Titiwangsa Mountains
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The Titiwangsa Mountains, also known as Banjaran Besar by locals, are the mountain range that forms the backbone of the Malay peninsula. The northern section of the range is in southern Thailand, where it is known as Sankalakhiri Range, the range acts as a natural divider, dividing peninsular Malaysia, as well as southernmost Thailand, into east and west coast regions. The length of mountain range is about 480 km from north to south, the Titiwangsa Mountains are part of a suture zone that runs north-south, starting in Thailand and extending south towards peninsular Malaysia. These two halves of terranes were separated by the Paleo-Tethys Ocean, the Cimmeria was separated from Gondwana around 400 mya during Devonian and rifted towards Laurasia, the northeastern arm of Pangea. The collision of Sibumasu terranes and Indochina terranes during 200mya Late Triassic resulted in the closure of the Paleo-Tethys Ocean and this mountain range is a part of the wider Tenasserim Hills system. It forms the southernmost section of the Indo-Malayan cordillera which runs from Tibet through the Kra Isthmus into the Malay peninsula. The Titiwangsa mountain range begins in the north as the Sankalakhiri Range, a prolongation of the Nakhon Si Thammarat Range which includes the smaller Pattani, Taluban, and Songkhla sub-ranges. The main range runs approximately from northwest to southeast across the border into Malaysia and ends in the south near Jelebu, Negeri Sembilan, foothills extend further southeastwards into Johor. The highest elevation is 2,183 m Gunung Korbu, on the Thai side the highest point is 1,533 m Ulu Titi Basah, at the Thai/Malaysian border between Yala Province and Perak. In the southern foothills, the highest is 1,276 m Mount Ophir, several popular tourist destinations such as Royal Belum, Cameron Highlands, Genting Highlands and Frasers Hill are located on the range. A number of roads cut through the Titiwangsa Forest Complex
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Panorama of the Titiwangsa Mountains at the Ulu Bernam's PLUS Rest Area
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Selangor
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Selangor /səˈlæŋə/ also known by its Arabic honorific, Darul Ehsan, or Abode of Sincerity is one of the 13 states of Malaysia. It is on the west coast of Peninsular Malaysia and is bordered by Perak to the north, Pahang to the east, Negeri Sembilan to the south and it surrounds the federal territories of Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya, both of which were previously part of Selangor. The state capital is Shah Alam, however the first city in Selangor, another major urban centre is Petaling Jaya which was awarded city status on 20 June 2006. Selangor is one of only two Malaysian states with more than one city, the other is Sarawak, Selangor has the largest city in Malaysia and it is growing rapidly due to modernisation in the Klang Valley. The state of Selangor has the largest economy in Malaysia in terms of domestic product with RM128.815 billion in 2010 making up 23% of the total GDP of Malaysia. This state is also the most developed in Malaysia with good infrastructure such as highways, the state also has the largest population in Malaysia, with a high standard of living and the states poverty rate is the lowest in the country. A more plausible theory claims the name is derived from the term Selang Ur meaning land of the straits Aur also means river in Malay. Hence, Selangor may mean river straits, a major problem with this hypothesis is that the word selang does not in fact mean strait in Malay, not even in obsolete usage according to the Kamus Dewan, the proper word for strait is selat. Another possible origin of the name is combination of the words Sela. It may be possible that the banks of the Selangor River was full of bamboo groves in the distant past, however bamboo do not grow well in the marshy soil of the lower reaches of the river. It is also possible that the word Selangor is an Orang Asli term as some rivers have Orang Asli names, in the 15th century, Selangor was ruled by the Sultanate of Malacca. After the fall of Malacca to the Portuguese in 1511, the area became disputed between the Portuguese, Johor, Aceh and Siam. When the Dutch displaced the Portuguese from Malacca in 1641, they brought in Muslim Bugis mercenaries from Sulawesi and they established the present hereditary sultanate in 1740. In many districts, Bugis settlers displaced the Minangkabau settlers from Sumatra, in the 19th century, the economy boomed due to the exploitation of huge tin reserves. In 1854, the Sultan of Selangor granted Raja Abdullah the control of Klang, passing over Raja Mahdi and this would eventually led to the Selangor Civil War of 1867 to 1874, which was essentially a struggle for control of the revenues from tin. Tin Mining also attracted an influx of Chinese migrant labourers. Chinese secret clan societies, allied with Selangor chiefs, fought for control of the tin mines, in 1874, Sultan Adbul Samad of Selangor accepted a British Resident in a system allowed the British to govern while the Sultan remained the apparent ruler. Under the stability imposed by the British, Selangor again prospered, the Federated Malay States evolved into the Federation of Malaya in 1948, which became independent in 1957, and Malaysia in 1963
Selangor
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The
Kota Darul Ehsan arch over the
Federal Highway, which was built to commemorate the cession of
Kuala Lumpur by Selangor to the federal government to form a Federal Territory.
Selangor
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Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque or Blue Mosque in Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia.
Selangor
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The palace of the
Sultan of Selangor in
Klang.
Selangor
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Northport Malaysia Wharf in
Port Klang.
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Kuala Lumpur
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Kuala Lumpur, officially the Federal Territory of Kuala Lumpur, or more commonly called KL is the national capital of Malaysia as well as its largest city. Being rated as an Alpha world city, Kuala Lumpur is the global city in Malaysia which covers an area of 243 km2 and has an estimated population of 1.73 million as of 2016. Greater Kuala Lumpur, also known as the Klang Valley, is an agglomeration of 7.25 million people as of 2017. It is among the fastest growing regions in South-East Asia, in terms of population. Kuala Lumpur is the seat of the Parliament of Malaysia, the city was once home to the executive and judicial branches of the federal government, but they were moved to Putrajaya in early 1999. Some sections of the judiciary still remain in the city of Kuala Lumpur. The official residence of the Malaysian King, the Istana Negara, is situated in Kuala Lumpur. Kuala Lumpur is the cultural, financial and economic centre of Malaysia due to its position as the capital as well as being a key city. Kuala Lumpur is one of three Federal Territories of Malaysia, enclaved within the state of Selangor, on the central west coast of Peninsular Malaysia. Since the 1990s, the city has played host to international sporting, political and cultural events including the 1998 Commonwealth Games. Kuala Lumpur has undergone rapid development in recent decades and it is home to the tallest twin buildings in the world, the Petronas Twin Towers, which have become an iconic symbol of Malaysias futuristic development. Kuala Lumpur means muddy confluence, kuala is the point where two rivers join together or an estuary, and lumpur means mud. One suggestion is that it was named after Sungai Lumpur, it was recorded in 1824 that Sungei Lumpoor was the most important tin-producing settlement up the Klang River. It has also proposed that Kuala Lumpur was originally named Pengkalan Lumpur in the same way that Klang was once called Pengkalan Batu. Another suggestion is that it was initially a Cantonese word lam-pa meaning flooded jungle or decayed jungle, there is however no firm contemporary evidence for these suggestions other than anecdotes. It is also possible that the name is a form of an earlier. It is unknown who founded or named the settlement called Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur was originally a small hamlet of just a few houses and shops at the confluence of Sungai Gombak and Sungai Klang before it grew into a town. The miners landed at Kuala Lumpur and continued their journey on foot to Ampang where the first mine was opened
Kuala Lumpur
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Clockwise from top left:
Petronas Twin Towers,
Petaling Street, Masjid Jamek and
Gombak /
Klang river confluence,
National Monument,
National Mosque, skyline of KL. Centre:
KL Tower
Kuala Lumpur
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Jamek Mosque at the confluence of
Gombak (left) and
Klang (right) rivers. The earliest settlement of Kuala Lumpur developed on the eastern side of the river bank (to the right in this picture).
Kuala Lumpur
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Japanese troops advancing up High Street (now
Jalan Tun H S Lee) in Kuala Lumpur in December 1941 during
World War II.
Kuala Lumpur
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The Majestic Theatre on Pudu Road was an early pioneer in Kuala Lumpur's cinema scene. It was converted into an amusement park in the 1990s and demolished in 2009.
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Gondola lift
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A gondola lift, as opposed to a cable car, is a means of cable transport and type of aerial lift which is supported and propelled by cables from above. It consists of a loop of cable that is strung between two stations, sometimes over intermediate supporting towers. The cable is driven by a bullwheel in a terminal, which is connected to an engine or electric motor. They are often considered continuous systems since they feature a haul rope which moves and circulates around two terminal stations. Depending on the combination of cables used for support and/or haulage and the type of grip, the capacity, cost, because of the proliferation of such systems in the Alpine regions of Europe, the French language name of Télécabine is also used in an English language context. Gondola lifts should not be confused with cable cars or the US aerial tramways as the latter solely operates with fixed grips and simply shuttles back and forth between two end terminals. In some systems the passenger cabins, which can hold between two and 8 people, are connected to the cable by means of spring-loaded grips. These grips allow the cabin to be detached from the cable and slowed down in the terminals, to allow passengers to board. Doors are almost always automatic and controlled by a lever on the roof or on the undercarriage that is pushed up or down, cabins are driven through the terminals either by rotating tires, or by a chain system. To be accelerated to and decelerated from line speed, cabins are driven along by progressively swifter rotating tires until they reach line or terminal speed, on older installations, gondolas are accelerated manually by an operator. Gondola lifts can have intermediate stops that allow for uploading and downloading on the lift, examples of a lift with three stops instead of the standard two are the Village Gondola and the Excalibur Gondolas at Whistler Blackcomb. In 1986, Doppelmayr built the worlds first eight-passenger gondola at Steamboat Ski Resort, such a system is called Pulse Cabin because usually more than one cabin are loaded at a time before the trip begins. Another type of lift is the bi-cable gondola, which has one other stationary cable, besides the main haul rope. One of the famous examples of this type of lift include the Ngong Ping Cable Car in Hong Kong, the Singapore Cable Car. This system has the advantage that the stationary cables strength and properties can be tailored to each span, there are also tri-cable gondolas that have two stationary cables that support the cabins. They differ from cable cars in that the latter consist only of one or two usually larger cabins, moving up and down, not circulating, bi and tri cable systems provide greater lateral stability allowing the system to operate in higher cross-winds. Open-air gondolas, or cabriolet as commonly called, are uncommon and are quite primitive because they are exposed to the elements. Their cabins are usually hollow cylinder, open from chest height up, with a floor and they are usually used as village gondolas and for short distances
Gondola lift
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Genting Skyway in
Genting Highlands,
Malaysia.
Gondola lift
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London 's
Air Line over
River Thames
Gondola lift
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Metrocable gondola lift system in
Medellin,
Colombia. First gondola lift used for
mass transportation purposes.
Gondola lift
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The téléphérique in
Jounieh,
Lebanon takes passenger to the
Our Lady of Lebanon shrine
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Genting Skyway
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Genting Skyway is a gondola lift connecting Gohtong Jaya and Resort Hotel in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. Genting Skyway can carry more than 2,000 people per hour with 8 passengers per gondola, at the maximum speed of 6 metres per second, the 3. 38-kilometre journey up the mountain peak takes approximately 15 minutes, depending on the weather. The system was designed by Leitner Ropeways, the 2 x 640 kW power of the main drive and the 54 mm diameter solid cable wire is among the most powerful and strongest monocable gondola installation in the world. The system, equipped with electronic equipment, was built in accordance with stringent Swiss regulations. The foundation used for the pylons is of the Hang-dug Caisson type, each pylon is founded on four Caissons measuring 1.2 metres in diameter, which are socketed down to bedrock. The Caissons method is about the safest and strongest foundation in existence, each pylon is accessible via rescue tracks on the ground, whilst each gondola is equipped with radio communication equipment from the stations. For safety reasons, Genting Skyway undergoes periodic maintenance, during the maintenance closure, visitors to Resorts World Genting can opt for Awana Skyway, which was built prior to Genting Skyway
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Cabin view from upper station.
Genting Skyway
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Cabin view from lower station.
Genting Skyway
Genting Skyway
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Top of the last pylon measuring 45 m
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South East Asia
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Southeast Asia or Southeastern Asia is a subregion of Asia, consisting of the countries that are geographically south of China, east of India, west of New Guinea and north of Australia. The region lies near the intersection of geological plates, with seismic and volcanic activity. Southeast Asia consists of two regions, Mainland Southeast Asia, also known historically as Indochina, comprising Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Myanmar. Maritime Southeast Asia, comprising Indonesia, East Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines, East Timor, Brunei, Cocos Islands, definitions of Southeast Asia vary, but most definitions include the area represented by the countries listed below. All of the states are members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, the area, together with part of South Asia, was widely known as the East Indies or simply the Indies until the 20th century. Sovereignty issues exist over some territories in the South China Sea, Papua New Guinea has stated that it might join ASEAN, and is currently an observer. Southeast Asia is geographically divided into two subregions, namely Mainland Southeast Asia and Maritime Southeast Asia, Mainland Southeast Asia includes, Maritime Southeast Asia includes, The Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India are geographically considered part of Southeast Asia. Eastern Bangladesh and the Seven Sister States of India are culturally part of Southeast Asia, the eastern half of Indonesia and East Timor are considered to be biogeographically part of Oceania. Homo sapiens reached the region by around 45,000 years ago, homo floresiensis also lived in the area up until 12,000 years ago, when they became extinct. Austronesian people, who form the majority of the population in Indonesia, Malaysia, Brunei, East Timor. Solheim and others have shown evidence for a Nusantao maritime trading network ranging from Vietnam to the rest of the archipelago as early as 5000 BC to 1 AD. The peoples of Southeast Asia, especially those of Austronesian descent, have been seafarers for thousands of years and their vessels, such as the vinta, were ocean-worthy. Magellans voyage records how much more manoeuvrable their vessels were, as compared to the European ships, Passage through the Indian Ocean aided the colonisation of Madagascar by the Austronesian people, as well as commerce between West Asia and Southeast Asia. Gold from Sumatra is thought to have reached as far west as Rome and this was later replaced by Hinduism. Theravada Buddhism soon followed in 525, in the 15th century, Islamic influences began to enter. This forced the last Hindu court in Indonesia to retreat to Bali, in Mainland Southeast Asia, Burma, Cambodia and Thailand retained the Theravada form of Buddhism, brought to them from Sri Lanka. This type of Buddhism was fused with the Hindu-influenced Khmer culture, very little is known about Southeast Asian religious beliefs and practices before the advent of Indian merchants and religious influences from the 2nd century BCE onwards. Prior to the 13th century CE, Hinduism and Buddhism were the religions in Southeast Asia
South East Asia
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A golden vestment similar to those worn by the Hindu
Brahmin Caste, found in Butuan (
Philippines) Archeological Digs. This artefact shows the influence of Indian culture in Southeast Asia, also through trade.
South East Asia
South East Asia
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Angkor Wat in
Siem Reap,
Cambodia
South East Asia
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Kampung Laut Mosque in
Tumpat is one of the oldest mosques in Malaysia, dating to the early 18th century.
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Awana Skyway
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The Awana Skyway, also referred to as the new Awana Skyway, is a gondola lift connecting Awana Transport Hub, Chin Swee Temple and SkyAvenue in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. The Awana Transport Hub terminus consists of the new Awana Bus Terminal, the station building, the new skyway was opened around August 2016. It can carry up to 3,600 passengers per hour with 10 passengers per gondola, at the maximum speed of 6 metres per second, the 2. 8-kilometre journey up the mountain peak takes about 10 minutes, though it varies on the weather conditions. The former uses an aerial tramway system while the latter uses gondola lift, a similar system of cables is used in a funicular railway. The two passenger cabins are situated at opposite ends of the loops of cable, thus, while one is coming up, the other is going down the mountain, and they pass each other midway on the cable span. It ceased its operations since 1 April 2014 to make way for the construction of an all-new monocable gondola system similar to the one used on Genting Skyway by Leitner Ropeways. The new monocable gondola lift built by Leitner Ropeways uses 60 mm diameter solid cable wire ropes as opposed to Genting Skyways 54 mm diameter solid cable wire ropes, likewise, they are among the strongest monocable gondola installations in the world. Similarly, it is equipped with electronic equipment and was built in accordance with stringent Swiss regulations. It also has a double safety circuit which is completely independent, the foundation used for the pylons is of the Hang-dug Caisson type. Each pylon is founded on four Caissons measuring 1.2 metres in diameter, the Caissons method is about the safest and strongest foundation in existence, designed specifically for hilly terrain. Each pylon is accessible via rescue tracks on the ground, whilst each gondola is equipped with communication equipment from the stations. The new gondola lift spans on 22 pylons as opposed to the former 5 towers
Awana Skyway
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The one of two units of Awana skyway cable car ever used since its opening on year 1977 until 31 March 2014. Photo taken on 2 May 2011.
Awana Skyway
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Awana Skyway gondola view approaching base station at Sri Layang Hotel.
Awana Skyway
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Awana Skyway gondola view approaching Chin Swee middle station.
Awana Skyway
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Awana Skyway gondola view approaching Genting upper station at Genting Grand Hotel.
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Lim Goh Tong
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Tan Sri Dato Seri Lim Goh Tong was a prominent wealthy Malaysian Chinese businessman. He was renowned for his vision and courage in transforming Genting Highlands from an unexplored hilltop into one of the worlds most successful casino resorts and he has an elder brother, three elder sisters, a younger sister and a younger brother. Lim was born into an environment in a village, during that time, China was in a period of turmoil and unrest after the 1911 revolution. He grew up peacefully and had the opportunity of studying in school, however, disaster struck and his father died when he was 16. Lim was forced to leave school and he and his brother had to take over the heavy burden of feeding his family. As Chinas situation was becoming worse, Lim Goh Tong decided to take the plunge in venturing out to Malaysia following his cousin and he left China through Xiamen in early February 1937 at the age of 19. He worked for his uncle as a carpenter in the first two years, learning the Malay language in the meantime, after gaining experience he went on to become a building sub-contractor and completed his first job of building a two-storey school. He returned to Anxi in 1940, but went back to Malaya the next year amidst a deteriorating war environment, the Japanese invaded Malaya in 1942 and caused Lim to have a few near-death experiences. During the early Japanese Occupation, he earned a living as a vegetable farmer, later on Lim ventured into scrap-metal and hardware trading. When the Japanese Occupation ended, there was an urgent demand for heavy machinery for resumed operations in mines, Lim seized the opportunity and engaged in second-hand machinery trading, making his first fortune. From used machinery trading, Lim strayed into iron mining, joining as a partner in a mining company which couldnt settle the outstanding payment of two bulldozers with him. This proved to be a venture, and he later went on to form a joint-venture company which was one of the first Chinese tin companies to utilise dredges. While dealing in heavy machinery, Lim accumulated a wide range of reconditioned machines as well as an amount of cash to move into construction. In the name of his construction company, Kien Huat Private Limited, Lim began taking on several contracting jobs with help. Kien Huat won accolades and became recognised as one of the construction companies, building the Ayer Itam Dam. The idea of building a resort was first conceived when Lim Goh Tong was having a dinner in the Cameron Highlands. After doing some research, Lim found Gunung Ulu Kali at a place called Genting Sempah to be a location for his plan. Upon conceiving this idea, many naysayers were sceptical of Lim turning a wilderness into a tourist resort, after getting approvals from the Federal and State governments, Lim began the project in the face of a colossal task
Lim Goh Tong
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Statue of Lim Goh Tong at
Chin Swee Caves Temple
Lim Goh Tong
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The Genting Highlands Theme Park
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Cameron Highlands
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The Cameron Highlands is Malaysia’s most extensive hill station. It occupies an area of 712 square kilometres, to the north, its boundary touches that of Kelantan, to the west, it shares part of its border with Perak. It is the smallest constituency in Pahang, surveyed by Sir William Cameron in 1885, the outpost consists of three districts, namely Ringlet, Tanah Rata and Ulu Telom. Its eight sub-districts are Ringlet, Tanah Rata, Brinchang, the Bertam Valley, Kea Farm, Tringkap, Kuala Terla, all are nestled at elevations ranging from 1,100 metres to 1,600 metres above sea level. The mean annual temperature of the retreat is about 18 °C, during the day, the temperature seldom rises over 25 °C, at night, it can drop to as low as 9 °C at the higher reaches. The resort has a population of more than 38,000 people. It comprises Bumiputeras, Chinese, Indians, non-Malaysian citizens, most of the residents here are entrepreneurs, service industry employees, farm workers, retirees or government servants. The languages spoken are Malay, Mandarin, Tamil and English, islam, Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity and Sikhism are the main religions of the haven. Developed in the 1930s, the tableland is one of the oldest tourist spots in Malaysia, the Cameron Highlands can be accessed by road via Tapah, Simpang Pulai, Gua Musang or Sungai Koyan. Tapah and Simpang Pulai are the two approaches from Perak, Gua Musang and Sungai Koyan are the entryways from Kelantan and Pahang, respectively. The Cameron Highlands were named after Sir William Cameron, a British surveyor who was commissioned by the colonial government to map out the Pahang-Perak border area in 1885. In a statement concerning his expedition, Cameron mentioned he saw “a sort of vortex on the mountains, while for a wide area we have gentle slopes and plateau land. ”When approached, the late Sir Hugh Low. A narrow path to “Cameron’s Land” was then carved through the jungle, forty years later, the tableland was given another review when Sir George Maxwell visited the locale to see if it could be turned into a resort. He spent about nine days surveying the territory. On his return from the highlands, Maxwell described the terrain as being oval in shape. ”After comparing it with Nuwara Eliya in Sri Lanka and Baguio in the Philippines. In mid-1925, an Agricultural Experiment Station was set up to confirm if cinchona, tea, coffee, fruits, in December 1925, a superintendent was appointed to supervise the 200-acre plantation on Mount Beremban. While research at the station was being carried out, the colonial office assigned Captain C. C, best, a surveyor from the Federated Malay States to trace the Telom River. He made a map of the head waters of the Telom and his exploration has established definitely that the area at the Ulu of the Bertang is incomparably the most suitable for development. ”This report, coupled with the confirmation that tea could also be grown
Cameron Highlands
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Cameron Highlands Tanah Tinggi Cameron
Cameron Highlands
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The quietude of the Cameron Highlands.
Cameron Highlands
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Township of
Brinchang (c. 2012).
Cameron Highlands
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Mount (Gunung) Batu Brinchang: “Moonlight” bungalow is in the foreground. The radio and television station is at the peak of the mountain. Photo credit:
Time Tunnel museum.
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Menteri Besar
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In Malaysia, the Menteri Besar is the head of government of each of nine states in Malaysia with hereditary rulers. For four states without a monarch, the title Chief Minister is used, the title Menteri Besar is usually untranslated in the English media in Malaysia, but is typically translated as Chief Minister by foreign media. According to protocol, all Menteris Besar and Chief Ministers are styled Yang Amat Berhormat, following elections to the state legislative assembly, the Ruler or Governor usually invites the party with a majority of seats to form the state government. The Ruler or Governor appoints and swears in the Menteris Besar or Chief Ministers, there are no limits to the number of terms that the Menteri Besar or Chief Minister can serve. In most states within Malaysia, the office was created by the British colonial government in 1948, however, Johor was the first state to create the Menteri Besar position, subject to Undang-undang Tubuh Negeri Johor enforced by Sultan Abu Bakar. This had made Johor the first Malay state to adopt a system of constitutional monarchy, after Malaya gained independence from the United Kingdom in 1957, the office bearer is appointed among the state legislative assembly members by the Sultans. The Menteri Besar and Chief Minister usually comes from the party which commands a majority in the state assembly, for many decades, the First Ministers and Chief Ministers met with each other and the Prime Minister at Mesyuarat Menteri-Menteri Besar dan Ketua Menteri. Upon appointment, he not hold any office of profit and engage in any trade. Only through royal consent the office of Menteri Besar can be held by an individual who does not meet these criteria, for four states in Malaysia with governors, the office of Ketua Menteri is open to any Malaysian citizen regardless of their religion, ethnicity and gender. The Menteri Besar is elected through a majority in the legislative assembly. This is procedurally established by the vote of confidence in the legislative assembly, since, according to the constitution, the Menteri Besar is appointed by the Ruler, the swearing in is done before the Ruler of the state. Remuneration of the Menteri Besar as well as members of the Executive Council. Hence this varies from state to state
Menteri Besar
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Malaysia
22.
Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway
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The Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway is a main highway from Genting Sempah to Genting Highlands, Malaysias famous mountain resort and entertainment parks. This is a highway owned by Genting Berhad. The speed limit of the highway is 50 km/h, the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway begins at the downhill Genting Sempah. Its terminus is at Genting Highlands summit, the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway was used to be a private highway owned by Genting Highlands Resort. Construction of the road to Genting Highlands began on 18 August 1965. In the year 2001, a new bypass Chin Swee Bypass which was designed as a route from the summit to the downhill Chin Swee Temple was constructed and was completed in 2005. The construction of the new bypass was regarded as one of the most astonishing engineering project in Malaysia, since 1989, there are many serious accidents are rare on the relatively well-maintained roads leading to the areas main resorts. 18 August 1965 – Construction of the road to Genting Highlands began. 31 March 1969 – The access road to Genting Highlands was opened,30 June 1995 –20 people were killed in the landslide at Genting Highlands slip road near Kuala Lumpur-Karak Highway. 5 June 2004 – A retired businessman was killed when the bus he was skidded overturned and crashed at Km 16 Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway near Sri Layang roundabout. 13 April 2006 – A landslide occurred at 11 p. m. at Km 3.8 of the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway. The landslide at the new Chin Swee Bypass to Genting Highlands two days ago caused soil and boulders to cover the road, making it inaccessible to traffic. 22 September 2009 – Genting Malaysia Berhad has announced that soil erosion occurred at Km 3.3 of a road at the Genting Highlands Resort at 3. 20am today. It was the worst road disasters in Malaysian history,18 November 2014 – A landslide, caused by heavy rain, forced the closure of the Km 4.2 of the Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway heading towards Genting Highlands. At least six spots along the 18 km road leading down from Genting Highlands have recorded horrific accident area involving buses and other heavy vehicles since 1989. 10% steep gradients, sharp bends and less-than-ideal road conditions can make it difficult for vehicles to manoeuvre. The one-way road from Chin Swee Temple designed for climbing route to the summit, the emergency escape ramp are also provided here especially on the one way downhill Genting Sempah bound. This emergency escape ramp that enables vehicles that are having braking problems to safely stop and it is typically a long, sand or gravel-filled lane adjacent to a road with a steep grade, and is designed to accommodate large heavy vehicles
Genting Sempah-Genting Highlands Highway
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Federal Route --
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Tunku Abdul Rahman
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As such, he is often referred to as Bapa Kemerdekaan or Bapa Malaysia. Tunku Abdul Rahman was born on 8 February 1903, in Alor Setar, Kedah, the son of Sultan Abdul Hamid Halim Shah. Tunkus mother was Che Manjalara, the wife of Sultan Abdul Hamid. When Tunku was 16, he won a scholarship to further his studies at Cambridge University, after about a year, Tunku realised that he was making very little progress in his studies. After a meeting with Mr. Ezekiel, his guardian, in the office of the Crown Agents, Ezekiel arranged for Tunku to move to Cambridge and to be taught by and live with Basil Atkinson. Atkinson was a tutor and he prepared Tunku to sit for university entrance examinations known as Little Go. The following year, he took the exams and he obtained high marks for all his papers with a Pass for the whole examination. He was accepted as an undergraduate at St Catharines College, one of the colleges of the University of Cambridge, five years after sailing from Singapore, at the age of 23, he sailed home. The Crown agents secured Tunku a berth in a passenger ship, Tunku Ibrahim, the Regent and his eldest brother, was unhappy with Tunkus choice of degrees and he ordered Tunku to return to England to be admitted to the English Bar. In May 1930, Tunku sat for Part One of the Bar examination, although he managed to pass three papers, his failure in one paper resulted in him failing the whole examinations in Part One. Tunku sailed to Penang in January 1931, since Tunku was on a State scholarship, he was automatically a government servant when he returned. Tunku Ibrahim, was still the regent and he told Tunku that he was in disgrace for failing the Bar examinations in London, on January 1931, Tunku was appointed a Cadet in the Kedah Civil Service. Later, he was transferred to Kulim as Assistant District Officer, in Kulim, Tunku devoted much of his time touring the district and getting to know the problems of the peasants who made up 90% of the population. Tunku also devoted some of his time to prepare for Cadets Law exam to qualify for promotion and he took the exams and passed it on his first attempt. About a year later, Tunku was promoted to be District Officer of Padang Terap, the post of District Officer Padang Terap was unpopular because Kuala Nerang was rife with malaria. Unfortunately, Tunkus plea for funds were rejected and he wrote again to the State Secretariat, asking that funds be made available to drain the swamps and to rid Kuala Nerang of the main breeding place of the carriers of malaria. This time the money came and the work was carried out under Tunkus supervision, in 1934, the Regent died unexpectedly and was succeeded as Regent by Tunku Mahmud, the Sultans younger brother, who was more broad-minded and gave consent to the marriage. This enabled Violet to move to Kuala Nerang, but the Secretary to the Government showed his disapproval by transferring Tunku to the isolated post of District Officer at Langkawi, the district consisted of a group of islands, thinly populated, sparsely cultivated and without roads
Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Yang Teramat Mulia Tunku Abdul Rahman
DMN AC CH
Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Tunku Abdul Rahman in formal judicial clothes.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Tunku Abdul Rahman giving his speech at an UMNO Assembly.
Tunku Abdul Rahman
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Tunku's first day in the office.
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First World Hotel
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First World Hotel and Plaza is a three-star hotel in Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. Featuring a total of 7,351 rooms, it has set the Guinness World Record for Largest Hotel in the World. By 2006, it featured 6,118 rooms, making it the largest hotel, until The Palazzo, in 2015, First World Hotel regained the Guinness World Record after an opening of a new block. The hotel has received 35.5 million guests since 2006, First World Hotel consists of Tower 1 and Tower 2 with 3164 standard rooms,292 deluxe rooms,649 deluxe triple rooms,480 superior deluxe rooms, and 136 world club rooms. It is managed by First World Hotel and Resorts Sdn Bhd, in 2013, First World Hotel extended Tower 2 Annex which has altogether 1,286 rooms including new rooms named XYZ Deluxe and XYZ Triple. The average size of the rooms is 170.70 square feet, First World Hotel is the first hotel in South East Asia to launch E-Kiosk or Express Check-in and Check-out kiosks. Below the hotel is a 500, 000-square-foot plaza called the First World Plaza, housing shopping malls, arcades, dining outlets, casinos, and the Genting Indoor Theme Park. There is a stage for weekly performances at the Times Square as well as a replica of the Statue of Liberty. Other attractions include a Cineplex and a Video Games Park, a new block, annex 2A will house the 20th Century Fox World Theme Park, Genting Premium Outlet, a brand new shopping mall in Sky Avenue and a new cable system. The Genting Outdoor Theme Park ceased operations on 1 September 2013 to make way for the world’s first 20th Century Fox World, due for completion in 2016. Other rides and attractions except for some located in First World Plaza such as SnowWorld, Video Games Park, Fun Land, Genting Highlands First World Hotel official website First World Hotel Reservation website
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Gohtong Jaya
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Gohtong Jaya is a main township in Genting Highlands, Bentong District, Pahang, Malaysia. It was erected and named after Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong, Gohtong Jaya houses several shops, apartments, housing areas and Genting INTI International College. Near Gohtong Jaya is the Genting Skyway station, which is the station for the cable car ascending to the top of Genting Highlands. A Gohtong Memorial Park is located in township, burial site for the late Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong
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Genting Highlands Resort
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Genting Highlands, otherwise known as Resorts World Genting, is a hill resort in Malaysia developed by Genting Group. The hill resort is at an elevation of 1,740 metres within the Titiwangsa Mountains on the border between the states of Pahang and Selangor of Malaysia. Resorts World Genting is operated by Genting Malaysia Berhad, which also operates Awana chain of resorts & hotels. It is sex by car from Kuala Lumpur in one hour, or also accessible by a car called Genting Skyway which at its opening was the worlds fastest. The idea of a resort located near Kuala Lumpur occurred to Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong during a business trip to the Cameron Highlands in 1964. He mooted this idea while enjoying the fresh and crisp air from the balcony of his hotel room, an anomaly happened during the obtaining of the land approvals. While the Pahang state government swiftly approved a lease, the Selangor state reluctantly approved a 99-year lease. As a result, Tan Sri Lim Goh Tong met the then Menteri Besar of Selangor, Dato Harun Idris, finally, the Selangor state government agreed to grant a freehold lease. On 18 August 1965, a technical and construction began the four-year task to complete the access road from Genting Sempah to the peak of Gunung Ulu Kali. In 1971, the first hotel at Genting Highlands was successfully completed and was named Highlands Hotel, the Genting Highlands Resort continued to expand since the opening of the first hotel in 1971. Development of the area continued with care taken to ensure the maintenance of the beauty of the rainforest of the region. In 1997, Genting Highlands Resort added the Genting Skyway cable car system provides a 3.38 kilometres transport to the hilltop. Genting Skyway is also recognised as the Worlds Fastest Mono Cable Car System with a speed of 21.6 kilometres per hour. Originally set to complete by 2016, it has since been delayed by a year, the comprehensive indoor and outdoor theme-park was promoted as the destination for Fun at The Peak. Resorts World Genting has five hotels, one of the five hotels, the First World Hotel, holds the Guinness World Record as the largest hotel in the world from 2006 until 2008, and from 2015 onwards with a total of 7,351 rooms. Its lower station is located near Gohtong Jaya, and its station is located at Maxims Hotel of Genting Highlands Resort. The resort has four performance venues, other rides and attractions except for some located in First World Indoor Theme Park, SnowWorld, Sky Venture, Genting Bowl, Vision City and Funtasy World Video Game Parks are opened as usual. Currently, some of the rides in the First World Indoor Theme Park have been closed until further notice to facilitate the construction of the 20th Century Fox World, the resort hosts several award ceremonies at the Arena of Stars, with a capacity of 6,000 people
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Arena of Stars
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Arena of Stars is a 45,000 square feet musical amphitheater located at Genting Highlands, Pahang, Malaysia. The hall has a capacity of about 6,000 seats, Arena of Stars is the place where almost all musical events at Genting Highlands are held. The roofed amphitheater includes a modern lighting and sound system, the sound system was upgraded in July 2011 for a price of US$3 million, including new speakers for the entire amphitheater. Seating in the amphitheater is divided into five categories according to cost, from the most expensive to the least, white, red, green, yellow, all of the events in Arena of Stars are managed by the Promotions and Entertainment Department of Genting Highlands Resort. During its initial development, the amphitheater was built without a roof, however, due to the severe weather of Genting Highlands, especially at night, it was later decided that a roof was required. The first show of the amphitheater consisted of acts by Sally Yeh, the 2007 Zee Cine Award show was held at the amphitheater, necessitating a further upgrade to the facilities, the make-up rooms received a large improvement to meet the 5-star class of make-up rooms. In 2002, it was the site of the 3rd IIFA Awards, the premier award show that honors both the artistic and technical excellence of professionals in Bollywood
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IIFA Awards
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Instituted in 2000, the ceremony is held in different countries around the world every year with the most recent one being held in Madrid, Spain. The IIFA Utsavam is the South Indian segment of the annual IIFA Awards, the awards were introduced in 2016, around the films released in 2015. The 1st IIFA Utsavam was held on 24 and 25 January 2016 at the Gachibowli Athletic Stadium, Hyderabad, the first awards were presented in 2000 at The Millennium Dome in London, United Kingdom. From then onwards, the awards are held at locations around the world signifying the success of Bollywood. Since 2000, the event has expanded from an event to a three-day celebration, hosting various events. These awards honour films from the calendar year. Amitabh Bachchan is the Brand Ambassador of the IIFA since its inception, in its 10th year, five special awards were introduced, Star of the Decade, Movie of the Decade, Music of the Decade, and Director of the Decade. The following is a listing of all International Indian Film Academy Awards ceremonies since 2000. R. Rahman =10 Most singing awards Shreya Ghoshal =7 Sonu Nigam =4 South Indian International Movie Awards Bollywood Cinema of India IIFA. com Official website IIFA2014 Rocks with Stars at Tampa Bay
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Amitabh Bachchan
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Amitabh Harivansh Rai Shrivastava Bachchan is an Indian film actor. He first gained popularity in the early 1970s for movies like Zanjeer and Deewaar, referred to as the Shahenshah of Bollywood, Star of the Millennium or Big B, he has since appeared in over 190 Indian films in a career spanning almost five decades. Bachchan is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential actors in the history of Indian cinema, so total was his dominance on the movie scene in the 1970s and 1980s that the French director François Truffaut called him a one-man industry. Bachchan has won accolades in his career, including four National Film Awards as Best Actor and many awards at international film festivals. He has won fifteen Filmfare Awards and is the performer in any major acting category at Filmfare. In addition to acting, Bachchan has worked as a singer, film producer. He has hosted several seasons of the show, Kaun Banega Crorepati, Indias version of the game show franchise. He also had a stint in politics in the 1980s, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri in 1984, the Padma Bhushan in 2001 and the Padma Vibhushan in 2015 for his contributions to the arts. The Government of France honoured him with its highest civilian honour, Knight of the Legion of Honour, in 2007 for his career in the world of cinema. Bachchan made his Hollywood debut in 2013 with The Great Gatsby, Bachchan was born in Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, in north central India. His ancestors hailed from a village called Babupatti in the Raniganj taluka of Pratapgarh district in Uttar Pradesh and his father Harivansh Rai Srivastava was a well-known Hindi poet and his mother Teji Bachchan was a Punjabi Sikh from Lyallpur, Punjab. Bachchan was initially named Inquilaab, inspired by the phrase Inquilab Zindabad popularly used during the Indian independence struggle, in English, Inquilab Zindabad means Long live the revolution. However, at the suggestion of fellow poet Sumitranandan Pant, Harivansh Rai changed the name to Amitabh. Although his surname was Shrivastava, Amitabhs father had adopted the pen name Bachchan and it is with this last name that Amitabh debuted in films and for all other practical purposes, Bachchan has become the surname for all of his immediate family. Bachchans father died in 2003, and his mother in 2007, Bachchan is an alumnus of Sherwood College, Nainital. He later attended Kirori Mal College, University of Delhi and he has a younger brother, Ajitabh. His mother had a keen interest in theatre and was offered a film role. Teji had some influence in Amitabh Bachchans choice of career because she insisted that he should take the centre stage
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Lux Style Awards
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The Lux Style Awards is the largest award ceremony held annually in Pakistan since 2002. The awards celebrate style in the Pakistani entertainment industry, around 30 awards are given annually. The ceremony is the oldest and the most prominent film event dedicated to Pakistani television, fashion, the awards are voted on by both the public and a committee of experts. As one of the premier award show events, the Lux Style Awards have been dubbed Pakistans Oscars. The first awards were presented in 2002 at the Expo Centre in Karachi, since 2002 the event has expanded from a one-night event to a three-day celebration, hosting various events and activities relating to the Pakistan film industry. The following is a listing of all Lux Style Awards ceremonies since 2002
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Jared Leto
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Jared Joseph Leto is an American actor, singer-songwriter, and director. After starting his career with appearances in the early 1990s. He made his debut in How to Make an American Quilt. He later began focusing increasingly on his career, returning to acting with Panic Room, Alexander, Lord of War, Lonely Hearts, Chapter 27. In 2012, he directed the documentary film Artifact, in 2016, he played the DC Comics supervillain Joker in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad. Letos performance as a woman in Dallas Buyers Club earned him an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award. Leto is considered to be an actor, known for his constant devotion to. He often remains completely in character for the duration of the schedules of his films. He is also known to be selective about his film roles, Leto is the lead vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and main songwriter for Thirty Seconds to Mars, a band he formed in 1998 in Los Angeles, California, with his older brother Shannon Leto. Their debut album,30 Seconds to Mars, was released to positive reviews, the band achieved worldwide fame with the release of their second album A Beautiful Lie. Their following releases, This Is War and Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams, as of September 2014, the band has sold over 15 million albums worldwide. Leto has also directed videos, including the MTV Video Music Award–winning The Kill, Kings and Queens. Jared Joseph Leto was born on December 26,1971, in Bossier City, Louisiana, Leto is the surname of his stepfather. His parents divorced when he was a child, and he and his brother, Shannon Leto, lived with their mother and their maternal grandparents, Ruby. His father remarried, and committed suicide when Jared was eight, Leto moved frequently with his family from his native Louisiana to different cities around the country. My moms father was in the Air Force, Leto has explained, Leto has two younger half-brothers from his fathers second marriage. Constance joined the movement and encouraged her sons to get involved in the arts. We celebrated creative experience and creative expression and we didnt try and curtail it and stunt any of that kind of growth
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Leto performing in Padova, Italy in July 2013
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Leto at a press conference for
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Leto performing in Oakland, California in December 2009
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Fish Leong
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Fish Leong is a Malaysian singer of Cantonese-Chinese descent. She is prominent in the Mandarin pop scene who has had success in Taiwan, Mainland China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore. Leong, known as the Queen of Love songs, is famous for her love-themed ballads, Leong was born in Bahau, Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia. She started her career in Taiwan, in October 1997, after joining Rock Records of Taiwan and it was then that she adopted the name Fish, because the last character of her name 茹 sounds like fish in Cantonese. Her debut album Yí Yè Zhǎng Dà was released two years, only to encounter an earthquake on the day of the album launch promotion. Her career only managed to take off after the launch of her second album Yǒng Qì. The hit song Courage written by her friend Michael Wong is about courage in love, after the success of the Love Parade World Tour 2004/2005, she had performed for another series of world tour concerts which took place starting from February 2007. Starting from December 2007, she has a new series of Today is Our Valentines Day concerts, in February 2010, Fish Leong and her husband Zhao Yuan Tong（Tony） got married in the Boracay, Philippines. In April 2014, Her son Anderson was born, about 6 pounds weight, Fishs blog @Pixnet Fishs blog @Sina
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Leong in Chengdu of Sichuan province China, 2009.
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Christine Fan
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She sings mostly in Mandarin, but has also recorded in English. A popular singer, she has 3 million followers on Facebook, fan was born in Ohio on 18 March 1976. She is the elder of two children, ohio-born, she studied at the Harford Community College. She hosted the variety show, Bang Bang Tang on Channel in Taiwan and has starred in various commercials. On 1 November 2008, she held her first ticketed concert in Taipei and she later held concerts in Taichung, Hong Kong, Beijing and other Chinese cities. She was also the special guest in JJ Lins concert in Singapore and she has composed and written lyrics for herself as well as other artists, including Claire Kuo, Angela Chang, Freya Lim, and the girl group Hey Girl. In 2015, she and Blackie Chen founded a talent agent company and signed Kimberley Chen, in 2003, because of the pressure of her sudden change in career path suggested by her record company to let her become an actress, she suffered severe depression and mild anorexia. She eventually recovered through her religion and with support from friends, a week after receiving the diagnosis, her doctor committed suicide. Both Christians, they married on May 7,2011 in a church in Taipei and their twin sons were born on January 15,2015. The couple is active in charity work, most notably co-founding the Love Life campaign, FanFans World The Sun The Sound of Music First Dream One to One Our Anniversary Philosopher Faces of FanFan F One Love and FanFan Together Fanfans time to give thanks FanFans official website
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FanFan at a charity event in
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G.E.M. (singer)
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Gloria Tang Tsz-kei is a Chinese singer-songwriter based in Hong Kong. She is better known by her stage name G. E. M. an acronym for Get Everybody Moving and she made her music debut in 2008 with the self-titled EP GEM. She has since become one of Hong Kongs best-selling musical artists, G. E. M. gained popularity in Greater China after her appearance on Hunan Televisions programme I Am a Singer in 2014. Her fan base extends to the United States, Canada, Australia, Norway and Southeast Asia. In 2015, she was ranked eleventh in Forbes China Celebrity List, in 2016, she concluded a two-year world tour titled X. X. X. Live, and was the only Asian artist featured in Forbes 30 Under 30, gloria Tang Sze-wing was born in Shanghai, and at the age of four she migrated to what was then British Hong Kong. She appeared on Educational Television in Hong Kong at the age of seven, at which age she was writing songs. At the age of thirteen she achieved grade eight in piano, in 2006, she won first place in a competition titled Spice it Up and caught the attention of Tan Chang, her now-manager, who offered her a contract with Hummingbird Music. She thus became a singer at the age of 16. She graduated from Heep Woh Primary School and True Light Girls College in Yau Ma Tei and she went on to attend the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts, but dropped out during the first half of 2009 due to conflict with her musical career. Her debut EP, GEM, was released in 2008 and she won several awards for the album, earning the nicknames 巨肺少女 and 巨肺小天后, for her vocal range and covers of Whitney Houston and Beyoncé songs. Traveled to Los Angeles to record her first full-length studio album,18, with Hummingbird Music co-founder and producer Lupo Groining. That year, she visited Toronto and Richmond Hill in Canada for a mini-concert and she also appeared in two feature films, Love Connected and Trick or Cheat. G. E. M. held her first concert,18 Live, at the Hong Kong International Trade & Exhibition Centre Star Hall. The concert featured guests including Jan Lamb, who worked with G. E. M. for the song 食煙飲酒講粗口, and Justin Lo, who sang 合唱歌 with G. E. M. at the concert. In 2010, she promoted the Taiwanese edition of 18. in Taiwan and returned to Los Angeles to record her next album, the album was recorded over ten days in Santa Monica. During her time in Los Angeles, G. E. M. also made an appearance at the US Swimming National Open Water Swimming Championships in Long Beach as an ambassador for Project Kaisei. Played three shows at the Hong Kong Coliseum, becoming the youngest Hong Kong female soloist to do so and she performed a further five shows at the same venue in September and toured in eight countries for the Get Everybody Moving tour
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Kay Tse
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Kay Tse On-kay is a Hong Kong Cantopop singer. She is a prominent figure in Cantopop and Hong Kong popular culture and is referred to in the media as a grass-roots diva. She is known for her vocal range and her ability to sing in various music genres. Tses claim to fame was her 2008 song, Wedding Invitation Street and she is considered one of the four current premier female Cantopop singers along with Joey Yung, Miriam Yeung and Denise Ho. Tse is married to fellow Hong Kong singer Louis Cheung, with whom she has a son, Kay Tse was born on 13 March 1977 in Tai Po, Hong Kong, the only child of a Hakka family. She first started to learn to play the piano by the age of six and she also learned to play the guitar. From the age of 11, Tse attended Valtorta College, a state-funded Catholic school in Hong Kongs New Territories, in 2002, when Tse was a university student majoring in American Studies at the University of Hong Kong, she entered a university singing competition and took first place. At that time Tse was working as a piano teacher, Tses Cantonese debut album, Kay One, was released on 6 May 2005. The album combines various genres together, most prominently canto-pop and jazz, Kay One spawned four singles altogether, with her debut single Beauties 《姿色份子》 being a fast, up-tempo tune, lyrically, it talks about the Asian dieting trend. Another notable single is The One and Only 《我歌。。。故我在》, which is a slow ballad, showcasing Tses versatile vocal range. On 23 December 2005, the received a re-release edition titled Kay One, this edition includes a bonus track called Follow Me 《跟我走》. The song is influenced, which Tse talks about her music. The single managed to reach number 1 on the TVB Billboard chart, by 2 June 2006, Tse released her first extended play. K sus2 was expected to be released on March,2009, the EP is largely more rock-influenced than her previous album. It includes six new songs along with three music videos, the first single Gloomy Festival 《愁人節》 impacted radio stations on January,2006. It received positive reception from critics for raising concerns about the disadvantaged groups in the society. In late April, another track named A Deadly Journey 《亡命之途》 was introduced on Hong Kong Sina and it reached a peak of number-three on 903 Top 20. In July, Foreign Maids Love Song 《菲情歌》 from the EP has started to be broadcast in various media, on 19 June, Sammy Ha, manager of Kay Tse, announced that K sus2 will be reprinted for the high demand
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Tse in 11 September 2010.
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A-mei
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A MEI is the stage name of the aboriginal Taiwanese pop singer and songwriter Chang Hui-mei. Born as Amit Kulilay in the mountains of eastern Taiwan, she made her debut in the world of music in 1996. She has been called a diva of the Mandarin pop music scene and she has won numerous music awards and is popular within the Mandarin-speaking world. A-Mei was born in Beinan Township, Taitung County and she is a member of the Puyuma nation. Like most Taiwanese aborigines, she was exposed to music during her childhood. Her mother used to record herself singing, then back the tape for her daughters to hear. A-mei had always fascinated by music, she once said that she stuck to the radio. She also showed eagerness to perform in public, even forcing her friends to listen to her sing. A-Mei made it all the way through to the finals but eventually lost in the final round and she was disappointed and was almost ready to give up interest in music competitions. A-Meis father then told her, You definitely can sing, why dont you enter the competition again to show that you have a talent for music. So encouraged, A-Mei then decided to make a second late in 1993. Her performances impressed the judges, and in 1994 A-Mei was awarded the championship and her father succumbed to his sickness before her victory, however, leaving her greatly distressed. In the wake of his death, A-Mei struggled to rediscover her passion for music until she began to sing in pubs with a band formed by her musician cousin. In July 1996, A-Mei and Chang Yu-Sheng sang the single The One I Love the Most Hurts Me the Most together, drawing much attention to A-Mei. In November, when A-Mei was invited to sing Im a Dreamer on Air, shortly afterward she was signed to Forward Music and released her debut Sisters, in December. The album topped the Taiwan IFPI chart for a record of nine consecutive weeks, the album sold 1.08 million copies, making it one of the very few albums to break one million copies in Taiwan. The first three songs on the album, You want nothing after all, Sisters, and Released which was written by Jonathan Koh which enjoyed widespread play on the air. A-meis second album Bad Boy in June 1997 also topped the Taiwan IFPI chart for 9 consecutive weeks, again, songs on the album, especially Cant Cry and Listen to the Sea are regarded as classics of 1990s Chinese-language pop music
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A-mei 2010 World Tour in
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Jane Zhang
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Zhang Liangying, also known as Jane Zhang, is a Chinese pop singer. She rose to prominence after her performance in the 2005 season of the Super Girl contest. Throughout the competition, she sang in English, Spanish, and Cantonese and she is particularly known for her signature whistle register which earned her a nickname, The Dolphin Princess. Zhangs debut album was titled The One and was produced by American Producer Craig Williams and her next album, Update, broke away from the Chinese pop scene by combining elements of R&B and jazz. After the release of The one, Zhang participated in a World Peace One concert that was designed to increase awareness and activism for world peace and her father was an engine attendant for a transportation company in Chengdu, and her mother was an office assistant. During her childhood, she performed at her parents workplace on several occasions, however, her parents divorced when she was 13, two years later, Zhangs father died. This forced her to work outside of school, she started to sing at a public house. Because she was unable to afford her own music players, Zhang frequently borrowed walkmans and headphones from her classmates, Zhang auditioned for the 2005 Super Girl contest, the Chinese equivalent of the Idol franchise, but only for female contestants. She auditioned in Chengdu, and after progressing through the rounds, she entered the national competition with Li Yuchun. Throughout the series, she had established a fan base whose members called themselves Liang Fen, a phrase that combined the Chinese pronunciation of her name and the English word fan. Zhang demonstrated her ability to sing in foreign languages, with performances of I Still Believe, Whats Up, Beautiful, despite high praise from some critics she was not the most popular contestant among young supporters. Her final number of votes by text messaging was 1.3 million, consequently, she placed third behind Li Yuchun and Bibi Zhou, whose creative eccentricity and tomboyish appearances triumphed over the old, introverted, pretty-girl image. After the competition ended, Zhang was invited to visit Sichuan University, her alma mater and she performed her own rendition of Shania Twains Any Man of Mine there. On September 26,2005, she became the first Super Girl contestant to hold a music show for her fans. Numerous celebrities attended the show, including Huang Jianxiang, a host on CCTVs football shows, Phoenix TV host Zeng Zimo, and Taiwanese singer Sky Wu. Zhang also signed a contract with CCTV to play the role in The Song of the Movie. Harlem Yu and Yuan Quan also starred in the musical, which opened in Beijing in December 2005, on January 9,2006, her first EP, Jane·Love was released. The EP, which cost 2 million yuan to produce, contains six tracks in total,3 songs and 3 instrumentals, in China alone, over 210,000 copies of the EP have been sold
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Jane Zhang in June 2013
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Gavin Christopher and Jane Zhang performing I'll Be There in Pasadena, California, USA.
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Cyndi Wang
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Cyndi Wang is a Taiwanese singer and actress. Outside her music career, Wang has starred in various Taiwanese dramas, including Westside Story, Heavens Wedding Gown and she acted alongside JJ Lin in three short love stories, a movie in 2008 with Karena Lam, held concerts and she also made several commercials and endorsements. Wang graduated from the Okazaki Arts School in Taipei, and completed a course at Hua Gang Arts School. Her family is from Taiwan, and she is a Buddhist, Wangs mother is a Hakka, Wang and her younger brother were raised in a single-parent family. She speaks Mandarin, English and Hakka and she professed to be a Hakka, following her mothers side. Wang entered an Avex Taiwan competition in Taiwan in 2003 and she also composed two songs in her Magic Cyndi and Fly. She wrote the Ill be Better lyric in her album H2H and her self-composed Stick to You from her latest album Sticky was chosen as opening theme for her latest drama. Soon after the Avex Taiwan competition, Wang was called again, in order to pursue her dreams, she decided to take on the challenge and go to Avex Taiwans music studio in Japan to learn dancing and singing for 3 months from various famous lecturers. This was very successful as she learned quickly and she earned herself a graduation certificate with impressive results and records from Japans Avex Trax. These achievements made Avex Taiwan impressed with her, and she was offered a contract by Taiwans Avex Taiwan, from that time she has been involved in her entertainment career. She has had contracts under Jungiery Star Pte Ltd, D Music, Wang has been invited to sing at a number of events, including a 2008 New Year Countdown performance in Kaohsiung. About 3 years after her debut, she finally had her long-awaited 1-month rest in December 2006, since she made her debut in 2003, she has been very active in entertainment showbizz, in which her eight studio albums and three soundtracks. She also had concerts of her own & with J-Stars of Jungiery and she is currently signed with a management company, DayStar Music, and with Gold Typhoon from 2009 and has since released two studio albums. She starred in Momo Love with Jiro Wang and Calvin Chen and Ken Chu, Wangs 10th studio album, was released on 4 December 2009 and a compilation album was released on 13 November 2009. DaDaDa MV - features Danson Tang Degenerate MV by Jones Shi Love’s Option MV by Zhang Yun Jing Cyndi Wang at Avex Taiwan Cyndi Wang at Gold Typhoon Taiwan Cyndi Wangs Weibo blog
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Jolin Tsai
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Jolin Tsai is a Taiwanese singer, songwriter, dancer, actress and entrepreneur. Known for reinventing both her music and image, she is cited as a role of popularizing dance music as mainstream music in Greater China. Born and raised in Taiwan, Tsai began her career by winning the champion at an MTV singing competition at the age of 18. Her debut album, released in 1999 and titled 1019, was a huge success and her fifth album, Magic, is regarded as one of her biggest successes so far, right after her album, Dancing Diva, which reflected her mature artistic statement. After several successful albums and dozens of hits, she released her latest album, Play, having sold more than 25 million records in Asia, Tsai is recognized as one of the best-selling artists in Asia. Her work has earned her numerous awards and accolades, including six Golden Melody Awards, an MTV Asia Award and she has been acclaimed as an entrepreneur, particularly after she founded her own music production and management company Eternal in 2009. Forbes reported that she is one of the highest-paid Chinese celebrities, Tsai was born to parents Tsai Chu-chen and Huang Chun-mei in Hsinchuang, Taiwan, on September 15,1980. Her father is of Han Chinese descent, while her mother is half Han Chinese and her Papora maternal grandmother hails from Puli. Tsai was known for her grade, and frequently achieved top 3 in class since elementary school. Tsai was a 200-meter sprinter in school, but quit after she injured her ankle. Tsai later attended Hsinchuang Junior High School and Chingmei Girls High School where she and her friends formed a band Twister for which she sang, but the band quickly dissolved. In the second year of school, she made her performance debut on campus. In a different campus event, she sang Bette Midlers The Rose, in 1998, Tsai joined an MTV singing competition for a record of an extracurricular activity she performed in order to help her apply for colleges. However, she emerged champion at the competition where she sang a rendition of Whitney Houstons Greatest Love of All in the final round. It was a win that kickstarted her singing career and paved the way to her journey in becoming a teen idol. In 1999, she majored in English literature at Fu Jen Catholic University, after Tsai signed a recording deal with Universal, her debut single, Living with the World, was released in July 1999. She then started developing her album,1019, which was primarily recorded in Quad Studios in New York City. The album was released in September 1999, and she received positive feedback for the album, Tsai was named as the Teenage Boy Killer by media, and became an instant hit among teenagers in Taiwan
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Hebe Tien
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Tien Fu-Chen, more commonly known as Hebe, was born on 30 March 1983 in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. She is Taiwanese, and most notably a member of Taiwanese Mandopop girl group S. H. E, Hebe is the second child in her family. After living in Hsinchu for eighteen years, Hebe moved to Taipei after she was signed as a singer, in 2010, she released her first solo album, with eight music videos each having more than 10 million views on YouTube. On 6 December 2014, she held her first solo concert at Taipei Arena and her song, A Little Happiness, or 小幸运 became the first Chinese video to cross 100 million views on YouTube in August 2016. The record was achieved in 397 days and she finished high school, but did not attend college. On 8 August 2000, HIM International Music held a Universal 2000 Talent, the staff of the TV show Cruel Stage encouraged Tien to participate in this televised competition. The contest had about 1,000 contestants, and after rounds of competition. In the first round, Tiens voice began to crack while singing Return Home, as a result, she decided to sing in a lower key in the final round, choosing Singaporean singer Kit Chans Loving You. However, because she was unfamiliar with the song, about ten seconds of the lyrics went unsung. Following the competition, the Taiwanese record company gave all seven contestants an audition, the shows manager appreciated her straightforward personality and powerful vocals. As a result, Hebe was invited to become a member of S. H. E, with Selina Jen and Ella Chen, and was signed under the Taiwanese record label HIM International Music. During her career with S. H. E, Hebe has sung two songs for her bands albums, Too Much and Someone Loves You Instead of Me. For two Taiwanese drama soundtracks, Hebe recorded two solos, namely Ferris Wheel, for the Reaching for the Stars soundtrack, and Too Late, Hebe has sung a modified version of Love Was Here for the show Bull Fightings episode 14. The video can be viewed here, Hebe released her solo album, To Hebe, on 3 September 2010. The tracks, 寂寞寂寞就好 and Love. are listed at number 11 and 35 respectively on Hit Fm Taiwans Hit Fm Annual Top 100 Singles Chart for 2010, Hebe was the featured artist in Fahrenheits song, Only Have Feelings For You. The song was recorded for the Tokyo Juliet soundtrack, but has found a place in Fahrenheits first album. Hebe and Fahrenheits duet has also featured in several of S. H. Es concerts. At the 2007 Sprite Music Hong Kong Awards, Only Have Feelings For You earned Fahrenheit and Hebe the award for Taiwans Best Duet Song
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Together Forever World Tour - Hong Kong 14/11/2013
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Joey Yung
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Joey Yung is a Hong Kong singer and actress signed to Emperor Entertainment Group. She was ranked 63rd on the 2014 Forbes China Celebrity 100, in 2014, she reportedly earned HK$80 million. Joey Yung was born on 16 June 1980 in Hong Kong and she attended Ma On Shan Lutheran Primary School, where she was sixth-grade classmates with Wong Cho-lam. Hong Kong actress Priscilla Wong also attended the same school, at the age of fifteen, Yung competed in the Big Echo Karaoke Singing Contest, and was subsequently signed by Go East Entertainment Co. Ltd. As an artist under Go East, she recorded the song The First Time I Want to be Drunk as a song for a film. She continued to school while working as a clerk and helping her mother to manage a fashion boutique. Later, an ex-colleague from Go East introduced her to Pony Canyon, however, not long after she joined the company, Pony Canyon shut down its Hong Kong branch and her musical career was again cut short. In 1998, Yung signed with the Hong Kong record label Fitto Entertainment (which was taken over by Emperor Entertainment Group in 1999. In 1999 she was sent abroad for training and began to receive singing lessons from Teresa Carpio and the late Roman Tam, by that point, she had graduated at the Hong Kong Institute of Vocational Education with a diploma in Tourism. On 30 September 1999, she released her debut EP, EP1 Joey and it sold 130,000 copies in Hong Kong and remained on the IFPI Album Charts for 2.3 weeks. In February 2000, Yungs apartment in Happy Valley was destroyed in a fire and that year, she made her first film appearance in Winner Takes All, and her first television drama appearance in The Green Hope. She also released her second EP, titled EP2 Cant Afford to Miss, in 2001, Yung released her first compilation album Love Joey, which became the Best Selling Album of the Year, followed by two Cantonese albums, All Summer Holiday and Solemn on Stage. In November she held her second concert and first concert series. She launched her career in Taiwan with the release of her first Mandarin album Honestly. In 2002, she travelled abroad for two months to undergo dancing lessons, returning to Hong Kong to release the Cantonese album Something About You and she then became the spokesperson of Nissin and Nikon. On 11 October, she released the Mandarin album One Persons Love Song, in 2003, Yungs became well known for the song My Pride, released on 25 March on the album of the same name. That year, she became the spokesperson of a parlor, losing some baby fat. She released the album Show Up. on 30 September and held her third concert Show Up, Live at the Hong Kong Coliseum
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Yung at the Little Day signature activity in V City,
Tuen Mun, Hong Kong, September 2013
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Joey Yung concert in 2006
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Sally Yeh
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Sally Yeh, sometimes credited as Sally Yip or Yip Sin-Man, is a Taiwanese-Canadian Cantopop singer and actress. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she immigrated to Canada at 4 with her family and grew up in Victoria, yehs singing career started in the early 1980s, shortly after her acting career started as she sang songs specifically written for the movie soundtrack. She has released a total of thirty studio albums, plus compilations, Yeh speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, and English. She has also collaborated on a number of soundtracks, including Lai Ming But Yiu Loi from A Chinese Ghost Story and she has received the Most Popular Hong Kong Female Singer award at the Jade Solid Gold Top Ten Awards four times. In 1992, Sally Yeh collaborated with a couple of western artists, recording “Dreaming of You” with Tommy Page in 1992. On 17 July 1996, Yeh married Hong Kong pop star, in 2002, Yeh re-entered the Cantopop market, released the record Can You Hear, and performed a series of concerts in different countries. In 2011, Sally Yeh received the Golden Needle Award at the 33rd RTHK Top Ten Chinese Gold Song Music Award Ceremony. Due to the fact that she immigrated to Canada with her family from Taiwan at a young age and grew up in Canada. However, because she did grow up in a Mandarin Chinese speaking household, she was able to have a basic Mandarin Chinese conversation, in Taiwan she worked hard to make improvements on her Chinese in order to stay in the Chinese entertainment business. However, because she was illiterate in Chinese, her managers had to create romanized or English phonetic versions to help her read the Mandarin Chinese song lyrics. Later, she relocated to Hong Kong, which at the time was the center of Chinese entertainment for a better chance at fame. Sally learned to speak Cantonese when she relocated to Hong Kong and had to continue to utilize romanizations to read the Cantonese lyrics, since then, she has focused primarily on the Hong Kong Cantonese entertainment world. However, because she never had a formal Chinese education, her Chinese reading proficiency still remains at the basic level, when she has to read Chinese lyrics, she still relies on Mandarin and Cantonese romanization for support. com
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Sally Yeh performing at the "Sally Yeh HKPO Live - Music in Motion Concert 2005" with the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra on August 2005.
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S.H.E
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S. H. E is a Taiwanese girl group whose members are Selina Jen, Hebe Tien, and Ella Chen, managed by the HIM International Music label. Avex Asia distributed S. H. Es music in Hong Kong, gold Typhoon is the distributor in the Peoples Republic of China. Since releasing their first album Girls Dorm, S. H. E has recorded 12 albums with sales totaling well over 10 million, the group has acted in seven drama series, hosted two variety shows, and contributed ten songs to six drama soundtracks. S. H. E has endorsed more than 30 companies and products, including Coca-Cola, before releasing S. H. Es first album, HIM International focused on the groups chemistry, and assigned the three girls to live together in a dormitory room. On 11 September 2001, hours before 911 attacks, S. H, with the release of their second album, S. H. E Girl Friends underwent a name change and became simply S. H. E. The trios third album, Genesis, was released on 5 August 2002, continuing the successes of the groups previous albums,20,000 copies of Genesis were ordered in advance of the release date. The album would go on to sell 180,000 copies, S. H. E later signed an endorsement deal with N-age, a South Korean on-line game company. Not only did N-age appear in a couple of videos, they also sponsored S. H. Es first major concert in Tainan City, the N-age Genesis Concert. On 23 January 2003, S. H. E released Together, S. H. Es fourth album was intended for release on 6 August, but due to an injury to Ella, Super Star arrived in stores on 22 August 2003. The album featured the groups first pop/rock song, Super Star, to date, Together and Super Star have combined to sell 580,000 copies,250,000 copies of Super Star were sold in Taiwan alone. On 6 February 2004, S. H. E released their album, Magical Journey. The two versions combined to sell 1.5 million copies in Asia, including 160,000 copies in Taiwan alone, on 2 June, S. H. E and HIM International agreed to extend the trios contract, which would have expired in October 2005. Later that year, on 4 September 2004, S. H. E began their first major tour, the tour started in Taipei, where more than 25,000 attendees were present, and ended in Genting Highlands, Malaysia. During their concert at the Shanghai Stadium, the set a attendance record. The tour raked in NT$22.4 million in gate receipts, the release of S. H. Es sixth album, Encore, was pushed to 12 November 2004 to accommodate Selinas graduation from university in late November. Encore sold one million units in Asia within one week of its release, since then, by the time Encore was due for release, media outlets had already begun labelling S. H. E as The Number One Girl Group. S. H. E had released albums every few months until the end of 2004, but due to their busy concert schedule, it was over a year until their next album appeared. After releasing Encore, they contributed to the Reaching for the Stars soundtrack and that same year, the girl group Twins released their first Mandarin album, Trainee Cupid, in the Taiwanese market
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Hebe, Ella, and Selina (from left to right) in Hong Kong in 2010s
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S.H.E's
oxalis (centre), as it appears on
Forever. The oxalis, a type of clover, is found on every album cover with varying designs.
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The Rose, starring Ella as Bai He (above), marked S.H.E's second appearance in a television series. The drama won the Most Popular Drama Award at the 2004 Golden Bell Awards.
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Stefanie Sun
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Sng Ee Tze, better known as Stefanie Sun, Sun Yanzi, and known to fans as 13姐, is a singer-songwriter. She is known as the Singaporean Mandopop queen and she has sold over 30 million copies of her albums during the span of her career thus far. She is based in Taiwan, as she does the majority of her recordings there and her popularity extends to China, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and her native Singapore. Sun has a sister named Sng Yee-kia who is three years older, and a younger sister named Sng Ee-mei who is six years younger. Sun was educated at Nanyang Primary School, St. Margarets Secondary School, Raffles Girls School and she later attended Nanyang Technological University, where she obtained a degree in Marketing, and was said to stay at Hall 6 where she was known for her singing talent. Her voice talent was discovered by her music teacher Lee Wei Song, in the Mandarin-speaking world, Sun is more popularly known by her Mandarin name, Sun Yan-zi or Sun Yanzi. Sun has sold over 30 million copies in Asia, with twelve albums to her name, she is arguably the most successful singer from Singapore. On 8 May 2011, Sun married Nadim Van Der Ros,34 and they had met through a mutual friend and dated for five years, but their relationship was revealed only when she was spotted supporting him at Aviva Singapores Ironman Triathlon in 2009. They had earlier secretly registered their marriage on 31 March 2011, on 30 October 2012, Sun gave birth to her first child, a baby boy weighing approximately 3.4 kg. Most of her songs are sung in Mandarin Chinese, with a few in English, Suns ability to speak various dialects is reflected in the songs she sings. In the song Cloudy Day, she sang in both Mandarin and Hokkien and it is an adaptation of a traditional Hokkien folk song that included the first six words in the original Hokkien- Thiⁿ-o͘-o͘, beh lo̍h-hō͘ – in the chorus. Her second song in her career sang in both Mandarin and Hokkien was released in her 2014 album Kepler, entitled Best Youth. The album Start contained 6 songs in English, covers of Venus, That I Will Be Good, Sometimes Love Just Aint Enough, Silent All These Years, and Hey Jude, and the original song Someone. Her first album was released in June 2000, the self-titled Yan Zi, Yan Zi album sold over 560000 copies alone in Taiwan, and 3.8 million copies in Asia. This was a success for Sun and the record company as a newcomer. This was followed in December of the year as My Desired Happiness, which sold over 800000 copies in Taiwan alone. Her third album was released in early 2001, titled Kite and this album had sold successfully with 900000 copies in Taiwan, also over 4.1 million copies in Asia. January 2002 saw the release of Start, a collection of songs, Start sold over 500000 copies in Taiwan alone, and it also reached high commercial success in Asia with 3.5 million copies sold
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Stefanie Sun
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Twins (group)
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Twins are a Hong Kong Cantopop duo that was created in the summer of 2001 by Emperor Entertainment Group. Twins are made up of two girls, Charlene Choi and Gillian Chung and they are a popular group in Hong Kong and a top band in China. Their fanbase have included Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, Canada, Australia, United States, Vietnam and their music was generally targeted at young teens, but in 2004 they began to attract a wider audience by venturing into different styles of music. In February 2008 the duo temporarily separated after the Edison Chen photo scandal involving Gillian Chung, after two years the group finally reunited in 2010. Since 2001, group released twelve Cantonese studio albums, four Mandarin studio albums, most of their singles reached the top of many musical charts. Gillian Chung had also worked as a model during one of her summer vacations in Hong Kong. Similar to her partner, Charlene Choi was also a part-time model who had appeared in several advertisements. She became famous after her participation in the Radio Television Hong Kong television program Y2K, both caught the attention of EEG manager Mani Fok. They subsequently auditioned for and later formed the duo known as Twins and they initially collaborated with MSN to make personal pages and web games. Twins signed to Emperor Entertainment Group and in August 2001, they released their debut EP Twins with hit single Open Love, Secret Love, EP contained 3 music videos and 6 songs. It went platinum in its first week of selling, in November, Twins released their second EP Twins Love which contained 8 songs and 1 music video, for the lead single, Slam Drunking Love. In January 2002, Twins released their third EP Twins, the EP contained one CD with five new songs, and a VCD, with 2 music videos. Since it was near Chinese New Year, the single Ma Bao 668 was a song for Chinese New Year. In May 2002, Twins finally released their debut album Our Souvenir with two discs, disc one, CD contained 10 tracks with single Er Ren Shi Jie Bei. Disc two was a VCD, with two music videos and their debut album was a great success. In August 2002, Twins released second album Amazing Album, consisted of two discs, CD with 11 songs, and a DVD with three videos, in 2002, Twins had their first concert ever, and three more in 2003. Between 2001 and 2003, they received a total of 72 total awards, by 2003, they have received a large number of awards from the four major Hong Kong media organizations of RTHK, Commercial Radio Hong Kong, Metro Radio and TVB. In April 2003, they released album, Touch of Love
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Gillian Chung (left) and Charlene Choi (right) on the red carpet at the
MTV Asia Awards in
Bangkok, Thailand on 6 May 2006
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Twins hug each other on The Missing Piece Concert, 2006
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Twins are taking Yahoo! Awards on 13 December 2007
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Twins on their North American tour in Concert Cow Palace, San Francisco on 15 September 2007
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JKT48
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JKT48 is an Indonesian idol group whose name is derived from its based city of Jakarta and the Japanese idol group AKB48. Formed in 2011, it is the first AKB48 sister group outside Japan, fans can attend daily performances at the groups theater, which was built as a close replica to the AKB48 Theater in Akihabara. Producer Yasushi Akimoto decided to bring the AKB48 concept to Indonesia because the group had begun to develop a fan base in the country, Dentsu Media Group Indonesia then cooperate with the countrys largest media conglomerate Global Mediacom as JKT48 official media partner. While JKT48 does not restrict membership by nationality, applicants must be residents of Indonesia and it performs songs by AKB48 and other sister groups that are translated into Indonesian. JKT48 takes its name from the base city of Jakarta. In order to bring the concept of AKB48 to Indonesia, producer Yasushi Akimoto and Dentsu Media Group Indonesia partnered with the countrys largest media conglomerate, Global Mediacom, and Rakuten. In an interview on CNNs TalkAsia program, Akimoto responded to the question of why he selected Indonesia as the first target of AKB48s overseas expansion and he said, People in Indonesia were interested in AKB48. That is why we decided to try it in Jakarta, kids watched AKB on the internet and they want to do the same, but they dont know whether they have talent. Also its difficult to go to Japan to audition, the formation of JKT48 was announced on 11 September 2011 at an AKB48 event held at Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan. Applicant interviews took place in late September, and the first auditions were held 8–9 October, AKB48 member Minami Takahashi also visited Jakarta during the auditions to promote JKT48 among fans of AKB48. Applicants did not have to be Indonesian citizens, but they must reside in the country, approximately 1,200 girls auditioned for the group, and 51 were selected to proceed to the second round. Finalists were judged based on their performance of Heavy Rotation, from AKB48s single of the same name. JKT48s 28 first generation members, ages 12–21, were selected on 2 November, JKT48 made its first public appearance on 17 December on the live music program 100% Ampuh on Global TV and performed Heavy Rotation, with lyrics translated into Indonesian. As part of the concept of idols you can meet every day, the JKT48 management team aimed to accomplish this same principle and began scouting locations in Jakarta for the groups own theater in early 2012. An unoccupied site in the fX Sudirman shopping mall was selected as the eventual location. In the meantime, the first theater performances were held 17–20 May at a stage in the Nyi Ageng Serang Building in Kuningan. The official theater opened on 8 September for daily performances with a set list of 16 songs that have translated into Indonesian. The theater has a capacity of 180 and standing room for 30
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JKT48 performs at Jakarta–Japan Matsuri 2012.
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JKT48 Theater in
fX Sudirman
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A JKT48 member greets fans at an autograph event.
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ABBA
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ABBA were a Swedish pop group formed in Stockholm by Agnetha Fältskog, Björn Ulvaeus, Benny Andersson, and Anni-Frid Lyngstad. They became one of the most commercially successful acts in the history of popular music, topping the charts worldwide from 1974 to 1982. ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest 1974 at The Dome in Brighton, UK, giving Sweden its first triumph in the contest, ABBAs record sales figure is uncertain and various estimates range from over 140 to over 500 million sold records. This makes them one of the music artists. They have a joint record eight consecutive number-one albums in the UK, the group also enjoyed significant success in Hispanic American markets, and recorded a collection of their hit songs in Spanish. During the bands active years, Fältskog & Ulvaeus and Lyngstad & Andersson were married and these relationship changes were reflected in the groups music, with later compositions featuring more introspective and dark lyrics in contrast to their usual pure-pop sound. After ABBA disbanded in December 1982, Andersson and Ulvaeus achieved success writing music for the stage, while Lyngstad and Fältskog pursued solo careers with mixed success. Several films, notably Muriels Wedding and The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert, further revived public interest in the group, in 1999, ABBAs music was adapted into the successful musical Mamma Mia. that toured worldwide. A film of the name, released in 2008, became the highest-grossing film in the United Kingdom that year. ABBA were honoured at the 50th anniversary celebration of the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005, the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. In 2015, their song Dancing Queen was inducted into the Recording Academys Grammy Hall of Fame, in 2016, the members of ABBA announced an upcoming project in 2017. Benny Andersson became a member of a popular Swedish pop-rock group, the Hep Stars, the Hep Stars were known as the Swedish Beatles. They also set up Hep House, their equivalent of Apple Corps, Andersson also had a fruitful songwriting collaboration with Lasse Berghagen, with whom he wrote his first Svensktoppen entry, Sagan om lilla Sofie, in 1968. Björn Ulvaeus also began his career at 18, when he fronted The Hootenanny Singers. Ulvaeus started writing English-language songs for his group, and even had a solo career alongside. The Hootenanny Singers and The Hep Stars sometimes crossed paths while touring, in June 1966, Ulvaeus and Andersson decided to write a song together. Their first attempt was Isnt It Easy to Say, a song recorded by The Hep Stars. Stig Anderson was the manager of The Hootenanny Singers and founder of the Polar Music label and he saw potential in the collaboration, and encouraged them to write more
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Andersson with the
Hep Stars (2nd, from right).
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ABBA in 1974, from left to right:
Benny Andersson,
Anni-Frid Lyngstad (Frida),
Agnetha Fältskog, and
Björn Ulvaeus
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Ulvaeus with the
Hootenanny Singers (2nd, from right).
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Frida Lyngstad in Netherlands (Amsterdam Airport Schiphol), 1976
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Kelly Clarkson
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Kelly Brianne Clarkson is an American singer and songwriter. She rose to fame in 2002 after winning the first season of American Idol, Clarksons debut single, A Moment Like This, topped the Billboard Hot 100 and became the best-selling single of 2002 in the U. S. It was followed with her studio album, Thankful, which debuted at number one on the Billboard 200. Trying to reinvent her own image, Clarkson decided to part ways with American Idol management and developed a pop sound for her second album. It sold over 15 million copies worldwide and earned Clarkson two Grammy Awards and she took further creative control for her third album, My December, by becoming the executive producer and co-writing the entire material. However, it caused feud with her label, that was dissatisfied with her darker, less commercial rock music, Clarkson returned to the top of the charts with her more mainstream-oriented fourth album, All I Ever Wanted. Its lead single, My Life Would Suck Without You, holds the record for the biggest jump to one on the Billboard Hot 100. She scored another Hot 100 number-one single with Stronger from her studio album. Clarkson also became the first act to win the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album twice. Her sixth studio album and first Christmas record, Wrapped in Red, ended up as the holiday album of the year. Her seventh and final album under RCA, Piece by Piece, was her album to debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Its title track became her eleventh single on the Hot 100. She signed with Atlantic Records in 2016 and has prepared a soul-influenced album for a 2017 release, Clarkson has sold over 70 million records worldwide and scored a total of 100 number ones on the Billboard charts. Her accolades include three Grammy Awards, three MTV Video Music Awards, twelve Billboard Music Awards, four American Music Awards, and two Academy of Country Music Awards. Often called one of the best vocalists in the industry, Clarkson is known for her powerhouse voice and she became the first artist in history to top each of Billboards pop, adult contemporary, country and dance charts. She was ranked nineteenth on VH1s list of 100 Greatest Women in Music, Clarkson has also ventured into television and film, as well as writing childrens book. Clarkson was born in Fort Worth, Texas, to Jeanne Ann, a first-grade English teacher, and Stephen Michael Clarkson and she is the youngest of three children with a brother named Jason and a sister named Alyssa. Clarkson also has two half brothers from her fathers second marriage
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Clarkson at the
57th Presidential Inauguration, January 21, 2013
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Clarkson performed at the
Lincoln Memorial in
Washington, D.C., on September 11, 2002, following her win on American Idol
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Clarkson performing during her Hazel Eyes concert tour on November 15, 2005,
Canberra, Australia
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Clarkson and
Reba McEntire performing during the
2 Worlds 2 Voices Tour
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Carrie Underwood
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Carrie Marie Underwood is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. She rose to fame as the winner of the season of American Idol in 2005. Her debut album, Some Hearts, was released in 2005, Underwood won three Grammy Awards for the album, including Best New Artist. Released in 2007, her album, Carnival Ride, had one of the biggest ever opening weeks by a female artist. Her next album, 2009s Play On, was a commercial success led by the single Cowboy Casanova, Underwoods fourth album, Blown Away, earned her a Grammy Award and was that years second best-selling release by a female artist. Her first compilation album was a chart and sales success and earned her a Grammy Award and her fifth album, Storyteller, made her the only country artist to have all first five studio albums reach either numbers one or two on the Billboard 200. Considered one of the most successful artists in any musical genre, Billboard has referred to her as Country Musics reigning Queen, while Time listed her as one of their 100 most influential people in the world in 2014. Underwood is the top country artist of all-time on the RIAAs Digital Singles ranking, Underwood is the biggest American Idol earner in the history of the show. Her album, Some Hearts was named the country album of the 2000s by Billboard. Underwood has been inducted into the Grand Ole Opry and the Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame and she has earned numerous accolades, including 7 Grammy Awards,17 Billboard Music Awards, and 11 American Music Awards. Underwood was born March 10,1983, in Muskogee, Oklahoma, to Carole and she was raised on her parents farm in the nearby rural town of Checotah. Her father worked in a sawmill while her mother taught elementary school and she has two older sisters, Shanna and Stephanie. During her childhood, Underwood performed at Robbins Memorial Talent Show and she later sang for local events in Checotah, including Old Settlers Day and the Lions Club. A local admirer arranged for her to go to Nashville when she was 14 to audition for Capitol Records, in 1996, Capitol Records was preparing a contract for Underwood but canceled it when company management changed. Underwood said of the event, I honestly think its a lot better that nothing out of it now. Everything has a way of working out, while at Checotah High School, she was an Honor Society member, a cheerleader, and played basketball and softball. Underwood graduated from Checotah High School in 2001 as salutatorian and she chose not to pursue singing after graduation. She said, After high school, I pretty much gave up on the dream of singing, I had reached a point in my life where I had to be practical and prepare for my future in the real world
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Underwood in
Times Square in May 2012
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Underwood performing at the
World Arena in December 2006
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Underwood performing in
Iraq, in December 2006
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Underwood performing during the
Carnival Ride Tour, 2007
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