Compiled by BEH YUEN HUI and BENJAMIN LEE
A 21-YEAR-old woman in Taiwan filed a legal suit against another woman for calling her “aunty” and a “mad woman” online, Chinese dailies reported.
However, the court eventually ruled in favour of the defendant.
The furore began when the first woman, identified only as Chai, commented on an online article, which prompted another reader “Lin” to answer: “Stop it, aunty.”
When Chai responded that she was merely 21, Lin went on to address Chai as a “21-year-old aunty”.
An incensed Chai sent a poo emoji to Lin’s Facebook account in a private message. Both women exchanged words a few times.
Lin then posted the conversation on Facebook, labelling Chai a “mad woman” and attaching her profile picture and particulars.
The court ruled that Lin was not guilty, citing freedom of speech as one of the considerations for the ruling.
> China Press reported that a three-year-old boy almost died after his grandmother used a traditional remedy to treat his bleeding nose.
His nose then became infected and turned black.
The boy was unconscious when he was sent to the Wenshan People’s Hospital in southwestern China’s Yunnan province.
His grandmother said she had wrapped some hairs in a piece of paper and inserted it into the boy’s nose to stop the nosebleed.
It was a folk method used in her hometown, the granny said.
The boy is recuperating after an operation to remove the foreign objects inserted.
> The daily also reported that a S$10,000 (RM33,925) reward would be given to anyone who helped a Singaporean woman find her three soft toys.
The woman, who goes by the name ZZ on Facebook, said she has had the toys – a grey rabbit, a white bunny and a grey hamster in a red strawberry pouch – for 10 years. She said she would take the toys wherever she went.
She said the toys could have been left behind at the Toa Payoh bus interchange, on a bus, shopping mall or MRT train anytime from Aug 5-7.
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.
