By Dang Hui Ling

Singapore Idol Taufik Batisah performed at the inaugural ABU (Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union) Song Festival in South Korea earlier this month. The two-hour event which will be broadcasted in the different participating countries, aims to bring together and showcase international musical talents, transcending language and cultural background.

Currently busy with album preparations, the local singer shared that he listens to a wide genre of music, from popular rock to indie. But when it comes to his own composition, Taufik is sticking to pop music.

In July this year, Taufik released an English single Sky’s The Limit featuring fellow local artiste Rui En, which took the number one spot on 98.7FM Top 20 Countdown Chart for two consecutive weeks. It was a rare feat for a local song as the Chart is commonly dominated by international acts.

Source: Xinmsn

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By Juliana June Rasul

Taufik, 30, was in Seoul mid-October for the ABU TV Song Festival, a concert to go with Korea’s ABU Radio Song Festival, Asia’s version of the Eurovision Song Contest.

Upcoming

No word yet on whether there’ll be any cross-cultural collaboration for Taufik’s upcoming English album, which he’s currently working on.

His most recent single Sky’s The Limit, which also features the vocals of his fellow Hype Records artiste Rui En, stayed at the top of the charts on 987FM for two weeks.

Source: The New Paper, Asiaone, Lollipop

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By Charlene Chua

He’s playing his first baddie role, but will you hate him for it?

Tonelli, 36, told The New Paper: “The Channel 8 audience are very invested in the characters that they watch on TV, they really believe these shows.

“When my character was good, I received lots of compliments. But when his insecurities caused him to be less amiable (he wasn’t even a bad person), I started hearing that my Mandarin sucked on the show.

The good guys that he has played on-screen include Jeanette Aw’s character’s suitor in Channel 8 blockbuster drama The Little Nyonya (2008) and Rui En’s character’s suitor in Channel 8 drama Joys Of Life (2012).

Source: The New Paper, Asiaone

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As the year draws to a close, we at ELLE want to give a nod to the best in fashion, entertainment and lifestyle.

Presenting: The nominees for the seventh ELLE Awards.

Actress of the Year

Rui En, Joys of Life

Often labelled an ice queen, actress Rui En is not just a one-expression starlet. Having played roles from tough cookie cops to long-suffering characters, Rui En starred in Joys of Life, a 1960s drama about friends who set up a cabaret.

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Source: Xinmsn

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By Kwok Kar Peng

Shaun will return at the end of January to shoot the Channel 8 drama The Dream Makers, which is about larger-than-life personalities in the showbiz industry. The show will also star Zoe Tay, Jeanette Aw and Rui En.

The Dream Makers 志在四方 debuts 24 June 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: The New Paper, Asiaone

Categorised in 50th TV Anniversary, asiaone.com, EN, The Dream Makers 志在四方, The New Paper.

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Celebrity interview is an art. Like negotiation, there needs to be a certain degree of compromise and sensitivity while sticking a microphone under the person’s nose.

But from time to time, journalists jump at the chance to bombard celebrities with hard-hitting or awkward questions – (well, you can’t blame them for trying!) – they would rather save for tête-à-tête sessions with close pals.

While many keep their cool with nonchalance and respond with measured poise, some get tongue-tied and scram for the fastest exit when cornered with a touchy topic.

Rui En

What kind of interview questions get on your nerves?

I guess open-ended questions tend to leave me a little bit unnerved. As a person, I don’t really like open-ended questions or the ‘what if’ questions. What’s the point [of asking them]? You can imagine what it’s like but when the situation is in front of you, it could be a world away.

Source: Xinmsn

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By Mabelle Yeo Hui Leng

The training programme arranged by the Singapore Police Force moved on to its next major segment―unarmed tactics. MediaCorp artistes Rui En, Andie Chen Bang Jun and Cavin Soh give their take on the day’s activities and share their learning points.

Popular and cheerful actress Rui En, who plays a hardworking officer in C.L.I.F. 2 (警徽 天职 II), was feeling equally satisfied by the end of the day’s training.

“I think I learnt a lot of things I wasn’t aware of. I always thought that as women, we are disadvantaged in terms of physical size. But the training and techniques taught me that it isn’t about how big or strong you are, it’s about how smart you are.”

Although unsure what might be applicable during the actual filming and upon the completion of the scripts, at the point of training with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) at HTA, actress Rui En still found the training extremely useful.

The unarmed training segment included methods to make successful arrests and bring down suspects from a strategic distance, and the effective use of handcuffs. Trainer Senior Staff Sergeant (SSSgt) Tan Kien Hwee generously shared various self-defence secrets such as the correct ways to do a grip neck-lock or defend oneself against an attack, or to press specific acupoints on a criminal’s neck to get him to comply.

“I’ve always wanted to learn self-defence. So, I am very pleased to go through today’s training,” the friendly actress continued. “I had thought it would be easier for the guys, but am pleasantly surprised.”

“All in all, the training has been a huge help. The preparation I do for normal roles is different. Because as civilians, we don’t really know how the SPF works, which is why we are doing this drama in the first place. This is something I have always been interested in. So, it’s been a learning process for me even though I have acted in Unriddle and other cop dramas. I get to understand the way the SPF works and I’m really happy about this.”

She also shared that her character in C.L.I.F. 2 will be a bit different from the other police roles she had done before. “She’s warmer. The other roles I did were hard, aggressive. This time, she’s softer, warmer, more firm, takes her job and the welfare of others very seriously too.”

After hours of arm-twisting moves, the cast members are taught how to use handcuffs in an arrest and make their suspects comply.

Filming for this second season is on-going and C.L.I.F. 2 debuts on 18 February 2013 on Channel 8, at 9 pm.

“The instructors are so cool. I just totally look up to them. They are heroes,” Rui En raved, as she went on to share her personal impression of Police officers in Singapore. “There was this one time when we were filming a scene for Poetic Justice. I was being chased with my on-screen boyfriend by a group of people holding bats. An unaware resident in a unit above our set saw us being chased and thinking we were in trouble, called the police; and the police arrived on the scene within a few minutes! Such heroes! I felt so reassured that they are so efficient!”

The cast at Home Team Academy chills with the hardworking, dedicated people behind the sequel’s production.

C.L.I.F 2 警徽天职 2 debuts 18 February 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Home Team Singapore

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Birthday exposé

Story: Jonathan Fam

Forget feuding neighbours or retroliciuos epics, A star-studded exposé on local showbiz will mark local TV’s 50th anniversary next year.

To mark the 50th anniversary of broadcast TV in Singapore, Zoe Tay, Chen Liping, Rui En and Jeanette Aw will headline a 2013 Ch 8 mid-year blockbuster that’s set in a TV station, exposing the drama behind the TV drama. Joining them is Rebecca Lim. Chen Hanwei and Shaun Chen star opposite the ladies in the serial, which starts filming next January.

We hear the still-untitled drama will see the stars play stars, TV executives and producers, and will be packed with catfights, scandals and romance.

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Who’s your BFF?

By: Jonathan Fam

Chen Liping: The loner whisperer

The notoriously aloof Rui En has said that her “only friend in showbiz” is Chen Liping: “We hang out outside of work; we go to church and we eat. We love food.” But just as we were about to print ‘Rui En & Liping: BFF 4EVA’ posters, along comes Mat Yoyo host Ya Hui, who calls Liping her “only trusted friend”. Aiyoyo….So who is Liping’s closest showbiz pal? We tried calling the veteran actress on the phone but she hung up on us after we identified ourselves. Judging from her less-than-friendly reaction, can we venture a guess and say… Rui En?

The Dream Makers 志在四方 debuts 24 June 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

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Home Team News speaks to the enthusiastic cast of C.L.I.F. 2 (警徽天职 2 ), the sequel to highly watched police drama C.L.I.F. (警徽天职).

By Joanne Yan

Cast and crew of C.L.I.F. 2 at Mediacorp’s lensing ceremony on 25 September 2012.

In collaboration with the Singapore Police Force (SPF) once again, Mediacorp will begin filming for the sequel to the highly watched C.L.I.F. 2 (警徽天职 2) in October 2012.
The sequel will see new cast members and big names such as Rui En, Li Nanxing, Pierre Png, Thomas Ong, Eelyn Kok, Jayley Woo and more.

Executive Producer Chia Men Yiang, 48, shares that C.L.I.F. 2 will showcase more of the work in the Specialised Sexual Crimes Branch under the Criminal Investigation Department (CID), forensics and investigation work in the Tanglin Police Division.

There are also opportunities to see how the investigators race against time to solve cold blooded murders amidst mental battles within to uphold the core values of the Singapore Police Force: Courage. Loyalty. Integrity. Fairness. (C.L.I.F.).

Turning up in a Singapore Police Force (SPF) uniform for the first time, actress Rui En, 31, shared that she loved playing police when she was younger “but never had the chance to wear the uniform”.

“The police deal with the darker side of human nature which I am fascinated by. I hope I can give viewers a new police character,” she added.

Rui En will be playing Ng Tze Keat, a motivated and hardworking officer who uses her analytical skills and crime psychology knowledge to solve complicated crime cases.

Pierre Png, Rui En and Li Nanxing are part of the star-studded cast for C.L.I.F 2 premiering in February 2013.

C.L.I.F 2 警徽天职 2 debuts 18 February 2013 9pm on Channel 8.

Source: Home Team Singapore

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