Compiled by C. ARUNO, FARIK ZOLKEPLI and R. ARAVINTHAN
SINGER Ella Chen (pic) said childcare was an exhausting responsibility, and she hoped her son would grow up quickly, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The 41-year-old Taiwanese, who is currently in Malaysia to attend an event at Pavilion, Bukit Jalil, as a brand ambassador, stressed the importance of self-care and having balance in life.
“We need to achieve balance as our children will leave us one day. That is why we need to care for ourselves so that our kids can fly away (be independent).
“I really hope my son can grow up and fly away because taking care of a child is exhausting. This is the truth,” she said.
The singer was accompanied at the event by her Malaysian husband Alvin Lai and her son Daniel.
It was earlier reported that she was having a whale of a time during her visit to Malaysia, as she posted photos of herself enjoying bak kut teh and roti tissue with teh tarik on Facebook.
Chen, who is part of the all-girl trio S.H.E., married Lai in 2012.
> A traditional Chinese medicine shop owner in Fujian, China, was charged and convicted in court after a man who stole and consumed an ingredient from his shop died, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The owner, whose surname is Sun, was asked to pay 300,000 yuan (RM193,342) in compensation to the victim’s family and serve a jail sentence of two years and nine months.
The judge deemed that Sun had been negligent in handling poisonous materials.
The incident happened in 2016 when a man, whose surname was Zhang, stole wolfsbane that Sun had been drying out in the sun.
Thinking that it was an ingredient used in tonics, Zhang boiled the poisonous plant in tea and drank it. This led to his death.
When family members realised that the wolfsbane had originated from Sun’s shop, they demanded that Sun compensate the family.
It was reported that wolfsbane, also known as aconite and monkswood, is extremely poisonous and must be handled carefully. As little as 2mg of the plant may cause death from respiratory paralysis or heart failure.
> Huangshan (Yellow Mountain), a popular tourist spot in China’s Anhui province, was so packed over the long weekend that tourists had to resort to sleeping in public toilets there, reported China Press.
Photos that went viral online showed a toilet crammed with tourists, some of whom were lying on the floor and covered in blankets.
According to an employee working in the tourism sector there, many visitors did not make hotel bookings and had missed the last bus to descend the mountain range.
The above articles are 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 >, it denotes a separate news item.
