Saturday November 7, 2009
Is this the right time to potty-train your child?
Other News & View
Compiled by YUEN MEI KENG, NG CHENG YEE and A.RAMAN
A WOMAN brought out a chamber pot when her child wanted to pass motion at a food court at a posh shopping complex in Singapore, reported China Press.
Instead of asking the maid to take the child to the washroom, the woman told her to let the girl use the potty while they and other family members continued enjoying their dinner at a food court at Ion Orchard in Singapore.
Some members of the public who saw the scene captured it on their mobile phone camera and uploaded it on a website.
The short video attracted a lot of comments, with some netizens saying it was very rude of the parent to allow such an act in a public place.
Some complained that the act could affect the republic’s tourism industry.
The daily also reported that the image of Vernon Leong, who died hours after hosting his own wedding reception, was captured by three closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras before he fell to his death at a hotel in Singapore.
The CCTV footage raised more doubts over the cause of Leong’s death as it showed him leaving his hotel suite on the 10th floor , which he shared with his bride after their wedding banquet, alone after the wedding banquet.
According to the daily, Leong, did not use the hotel lift but the emergency exit stairs. The daily said.
> Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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