"Mice Love Rice" is a Chinese pop song

C-pop

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. The song was written by a Chinese singer named Yang Chen Gang (杨臣刚), and his composition quickly gained popularity across East Asia via the Internet. It was sung by Wang Qi Wen (王啟文).

"Mice Love Rice" has become a hit in mainland China

Mainland China

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, Taiwan

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, Hong Kong

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, Malaysia, and Singapore

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, and has been re-sung by many other Chinese artists including Twins, a Hong Kong-based two-girl band, and Xiang Xiang (香香), another mainland Chinese singer who issued an English

English language

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 translation

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 afterwards, of dubious grammatical accuracy

Chinglish

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. In Hong Kong, the Emperor Entertainment Group

Emperor Entertainment Group

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 has bought the license for redistributing in the local market. The lyrics of the Mandarin song were rewritten into a Cantonese version, except the famous motif of the song which remains in Mandarin. In Singapore, recording company Play Music won the rights to marketing the song in Singapore, and they released a single of the track as sung by Jocie Kok

Jocie Kok

Jocie Kwok , also known as Guo Mei Mei, is a Chinese-Singaporean female singer who made her first appearance on the entertainment scene in the middle of 2005. She is signed under Singapore record company Play Music which practises packaging and marketing their new artistes as cartoon caricatures on...

. There is also a sequel to the song "The Mouse No Longer Loves Rice" (老鼠不再爱大米) written by Chen Yi Peng.

"Mice Love Rice" has also inspired other songs throughout the world including Sarang Haeyo by Korean singer Lee So-Eun , Nezumi ha Kome ga Suki by Japanese

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 artist , two Khmer

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 versions by Cambodian

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 singers Chhet Sovan Panha

Chhet Sovan Panha

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 (ឈិត សុវណ្ណ​បញ្ញា) and Preap Sovath

Preap Sovath

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 (ព្រាប សុវត្ថិ), "Cause I Love You" by the Australian boy band North (band)

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", and Chuột yêu gạo by Vietnam

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ese singer Thanh Thảo.