Compiled by BENJAMIN LEE and C. ARUNO
INSTEAD of the usual luxury vehicle, a groom in Segamat, Johor, decided to break with tradition and fetched his bride with a contingent of 30 cyclists, reported China Press.
The groom, 33-year-old Chen Zhi Jian, who works in the motorcycle industry, set out from his home in Labis to his bride’s house one kilometre away.
Accompanying Chen were 30 members of a local cycling club, all of whom were dressed in red for the occasion.
According to the groom, he got to know his bride, Huang Yi Lin, 30, and her family members after joining the club.
“My wife and I love outdoor sports. We often participate in off-road cycling, running, hiking, and even ironman races. We have completed in many sports events together,” he said.
The couple got married in 2020 after dating for 10 years but delayed the wedding ceremony due to the pandemic.
They now have one child.
> A 10-year-old in China’s Hebei province ended up in hospital after he was beaten up for accidentally kicking a ball at a woman, reported Oriental Daily.
Local press reported the incident took place at a park in Cangzhou city where the child was playing with a ball.
He kicked it and it accidentally hit a woman in the stomach.
The boy’s aunt, known only by her surname Zhao, apologised for the child’s action and offered to pay the woman some money as compensation.
Blinded by anger, the woman grabbed the young child by his head, yelled at him, and slapped him several times.
The boy is currently receiving treatment for hearing loss and is said to be suffering from nightmares from the incident.
Zhao said there were witnesses in the park who recorded the incident and that they have made a police report.
Video footage uploaded online showed a woman dressed in floral prints yelling at a young boy and repeatedly hitting his head.
> The body of a child in Guizhou province, China, has been found – some 13 years after he had gone missing while picking fruits in the mountains, reported China Press.
Villagers in Huishui county recently discovered a child’s skeletal remains trapped in a hole on the mountain and reported the matter to the police.
When the father was asked to identify the body, he immediately recognised the pair of jeans he bought for his son.
The incident took place on March 24 in 2010 when nine-year-old boy, known as Ah Cheng, went in search for fruits on the mountain together with friends after school.
However, he never made it back home. One of his friends told the police that Ah Cheng had “disappeared”.
Worried family members searched for the boy for days, fearing he could have gotten lost or kidnapped by human traffickers.
A DNA test later confirmed that the skeleton belonged to Ah Cheng, finally giving the family some closure to the matter.
- 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.
