In Popular Culture
- MediaCorp filmed a Channel 8 television drama called My Teacher, My Friend in 1999 about the lives of students in the primary school that used to exist on Pulau Ubin.
- Mediacorp filmed a Kids Central (now Okto) television drama series titled Ubin Boy in 2007. The plot revolves two main characters, Steven (a mainland citizen) and his cousin Ah Boy living in Pulau Ubin.
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