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Chua Jim Neo (Chinese: 蔡認娘; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Chhòa Jīn-niû; 1905 – 7 August 1980) was a Singaporean chef and cookbook writer best known for Mrs. Lee's Cookbook, which preserves the recipes of Peranakan cuisine.
On 17 March 1997, 26-year-old Jimmy Chua claimed trial to the charges of murder and attempted murder at the High Court.The presiding judge of the case was T. S. Sinnathuray, the same judge who passed the death sentence on notorious child killer Adrian Lim (and his two holy wives) back in 1983 and British serial killer John Martin Scripps back in 1995.
Kwa Geok Choo, the wife of Lee Kuan Yew, is the daughter of Wee Yew Neo, [14] [15] who is in turn the sister of Helene Tan, wife of Tan Chin Tuan. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] The Tan's are another prominent family in Singapore, whose members include Tony Tan , the 7th President of Singapore , Tan Kim Seng , a Peranakan businessman, and Mr and Mrs Tan Eng ...
During this visit, Nhat Hanh's followers were invited by Abbot Duc Nghi, a member of the official Buddhist Church of Vietnam, to occupy Bat Nha monastery and continue their practice there. [3] Nhat Hanh's followers claim that during a sacred ceremony at Plum Village Monastery in 2006 Nghi received a transmission from Nhat Hanh and agreed to let ...
Chữ Nôm (𡨸喃, IPA: [t͡ɕɨ˦ˀ˥ nom˧˧]) [5] is a logographic writing system formerly used to write the Vietnamese language.It uses Chinese characters to represent Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary and some native Vietnamese words, with other words represented by new characters created using a variety of methods, including phono-semantic compounds. [6]
C.L.I.F. 3 (Courage, Loyalty, Integrity, Fairness, or 警徽天职3) was a police procedural series produced by Mediacorp in collaboration with the Singapore Police Force. It was broadcast from 9 April to 13 May 2014 on MediaCorp Channel 8 and consists of 25 episodes.
Dexmon Chua Yizhi (Chinese: 蔡谊志; pinyin: Caì Yìzhì; c. 1976 – 28 December 2013) was a material analyst and Singaporean who was brutally murdered in Singapore by his former girlfriend's husband, Chia Kee Chen (Chinese: 谢其晋; pinyin: Xiè Qíjìn), who craved revenge on Chua for having an affair with his wife and had convinced two people to help him abduct and kill Chua.
The Institute of Hán-Nôm Studies (Vietnamese: Viện nghiên cứu Hán Nôm; Hán Nôm: 院研究漢喃), or Hán-Nôm Institute (Vietnamese: Viện Hán Nôm, Hán Nôm: 院漢喃) in Hanoi, Vietnam, is the main research centre, historical archival agency and reference library for the study of chữ Hán and chữ Nôm (together, Hán-Nôm) texts for Vietnamese language in Vietnam.