Heavy hearts all around Singapore received news of actor Aloysius Pang's passing.

Mediacorp, where Pang started his career at before departing for NoonTalk in 2017, has in a statement released late Wednesday expressed their deepest sympathies to his family.

It described Pang as a "highly capable actor" who remained humble and diligent despite growing in skill and versatility.

Mediacorp added that the actor was "much loved by all who worked with him", and will be remembered for his good-heartedness, earnestness, and sincerity.

This is their statement in full:

“It is with great sadness that Mediacorp conveys our deepest sympathies to the family of artiste Aloysius Pang. Aloysius grew up with Mediacorp, starting his career as a child actor in our dramas in 1999. He was named one of the 8 Dukes of Caldecott Hill in 2014, awarded Best Newcomer at Star Awards 2015 and became one of the Top 10 Most Popular Male Artistes at Star Awards 2016. Over the years, Aloysius matured as an actor and was recently cast in the lead role of My One in a Million (我的万里挑一), a future drama on Channel 8.

Aloysius was much loved by all who worked with him and extremely popular with fans. He was a highly capable actor who had grown in skill and versatility but remained humble, diligent and ever willing to help others. He will always be remembered for his good-heartedness, his sincere, unaffected earnestness and his professionalism. He showed respect to everyone, especially his elders.

This is a devastating loss and we feel deeply for Aloysius’s family, friends, fans, his colleagues at NoonTalk Media and fellow artistes and teams who worked with him. We will do all we can to support them at this very difficult time.”

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Top photos via Aloysius Pang's Instagram account