Compiled by Ragananthini Vethasalam, C. Aruno and R. Aravinthan
MALAYSIAN singer Jeryl Lee (pic) was crowned Budding Artiste of the Year at the Tencent Starlight Awards on Sunday, just over two months after she won the reality TV show The Next 2023, reported Sin Chew Daily.
The 23-year-old Penangite blew the audience away with a powerful rendition of Warrior of the Darkness, the theme song of the League of Legends TV series.
During the ceremony in Macau, two finalists of The Next 2023, Zhang Yuzi and Wu Yaotao, were awarded Budding Artiste of the Year along with Lee.
“This award belongs to my family, my fans and my friends. Thank you for always being with me. I will continue to work hard and shine,” Lee wrote on Weibo, China’s equivalent of X after beating more than 25 other contestants on Sept 30 to emerge champion on The Next 2023.
The annual Starlight Awards is held by tech giant Tencent to honour the year’s outstanding actors and singers.
> Veteran Hong Kong musician George Lam is admired for his talent and success but not his dressing that’s been described as hobo-style, China Press reported.The 76-year-old recently posted a photo of himself taking the high-speed rail in China dressed in a bucket hat, jacket, oversized trousers and sneakers, and holding a crumpled Burberry bag.
“The high-speed rail is so comfortable,” he wrote.
Internet users, however, criticised the singer-songwriter for looking like a “homeless man who scavenges for food”.
Lam and his wife, pop star Sally Yeh, were reportedly worth 130 million yuan (RM86.2mil) in 2022.
> A student from China who was visiting Kuantan claimed to have been beaten up by an ehailing driver, causing her fingers to be fractured, also reported China Press.
The incident reportedly happened just outside Skytree Hotel at about 6.20pm on Dec 16 when Rosa Yuan, 22, is believed to have angered the driver after closing the passenger door forcefully.
The enraged driver then hit Yuan with his hands before bashing her with a tripod, she said. An employee at the hotel ran out to stop the driver.Yuan said she was studying in Malaysia and had taken the bus to Kuantan for an overnight jaunt. Hotel staff gave her emergency treatment before sending her to the hospital, where two of her fingers were found to be fractured.
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.
